What you probably observe is simple selection bias: Your peer group is usually not random, but usually consists of people that have some things in common. Thus, every "fact" that you observe in your peer group will tell more about what people you are likely to be friends with (or generally what people you are most likely to meet), than about the preferences ot the general population.
75% of my collegues use linux, but that says more about my current employer than about the market share of linux.
Those in-flight entertainment systems are incredibly unstable. On 5 out of my last 8 inter-continental flights, I've seen at least one of them crashing/getting restarted (ranging from a single system to all machines in the section of the plane I could see). It's usually not linux itself that crashes, but either the client application or the server application. Unfortunately the only "repair operation" the crew is trained to use in that situation is "reboot the system and hope it comes up well. If not, reboot again".
So instead of praising NASA or even individual astronauts for going to the moon, we should really thank that the unknown guy who first told Kennedy "Hey, you know, the Russians are sending stuff into space. We should send somebody to the moon to best them!", because he's the one "to set the ball rolling"?
Anything non-live can be doctored with since decades (including "Videos similar to the ones Wikileaks leaked"). The ability to alter live video in that way however is, AFAIK, new. But as long as you can't verify that any given video broadcasted on TV is actually life, that's more a moot point (see countries with a strict censoring that require "live" video to be delayed for a short time so censoring can happen).
They invested heavily in the project and the resarch to make this possible. Just to "pull the plug" because some asshole sues them does not only leave the asshole with the "square root of fuck all", but also everybody involved in this project.
Unfortunately the US is such a big market, else I'd say they should simply pull their producs out of the country and let the sucker try to sue in a more sane jurisdiction.
If you can't create "WoW, just better" from release, then stop trying. Create something different, cater to a different audience, create distinguishing features. WoW is good, but it's not the be all end all of the genre. I can imagine games with more interesting combat mechanics, or more interesting class systems, or a better PvP, or a richer crafting/trading experience than WoW. But whatever you do, remember to lauch good enough to be worth "not plaing WoW".
He won the first time *against a skilled opponent*. The prototype has probably won against a lot of humans during the development process. I guess I would lose frequently against any random algorithm, as I don't even know the rules of shogi; winning agains some arbitrary human would not be anthing newsworthy.
Every time a new MMO launches, I've got this baggage of playing WoW for 2-3 years. I expect the game that comes out to be as polished and as good as WoW. It's unfair but my logic just ends at "why don't I just play WoW instead." I hope other people are different but that's what I keep thinking and what leads to my termination of game play.
Actually "why don't I just play WoW instead." is exactly the question the games devs/execs should ask themselves. Because their games don't exist in a vacuum, they exist in a world where WoW has 12 million subscribers. If they want any share of that market, they have to give players a reason why not just to play WoW. And just "different" does not cut it if the game is basically beta or worse on launch.
I'm using 64bit for a long time, and it has been ready for prime time for a while now. The only 32bit applications you'll probably need are Flash (which will hopefully be replaced by the new 64bit version soon) and maybe Adobe Reader. Adobe reader works flawlessy stand-alone, but both Reader and Flash tend to be slightly more unstable as a firefox-plugin in a 64bit firefox than in a 32bit firefox.
Please hand in your math license. The encoding has nothing to do with the property whether a number is prime or not. 4 base 10 is as prime as 100 base 2 (i.e. not at all)
Of course this is a cool "father and son" project. I think it's great that there are fathers out there doing this with their kids. However, there are lots of cool things parents can do with their kids that I'm not interested in reading on slashdot. It's simply not newsworthy. Thus, it *is* relevant that it has beed done before and that it did not actually reach space.
There are also dual clutch transmissions, that have no torque converter at all. Depending on the engine, they can even give you a better milage than the same engine with manual transmission.
Only that the important part for security is the "firewall" part, not the "NAT" part. If you use a NAT in conjunction with a firewall, you can drop the NAT without losing security. If you are using NAT without a firewall, there is no security so you don't lose any if you drop NAT. Bottom line: NAT is not a security mechanism. Wait, that's what GP already said...
RealID is not, and never was, used on the Blizzard forums. It was shortly planned to do so, but because of the have backlash from the users they never implemented it (and I doubt they will try to do that again).
Well, they DID listen to their customers and backed from using RealID on the forums. Now it's just a way to connect with friends on the games (ATM just WoW and SCII). You can (at least in WoW, dont know about SCII) still add friends the old way (character name). If you want to be able to chat when your friend plays a different game, or on a different server, you can use RealID. As you are not forced to do so, I don't believe it's a inherently bad system. However, the privacy options were definately needed, so I applaud this change.
There probably was a PHB behind RealID (which has been up&running for months now), but how did they learn nothing if they now offer privacy options for that? Actually I believe that is basically the first good idea they had for RealID.
Why would you need second life for that? The main feature of second life is the user created content, something you definately don't want on XBox Life. The rest is just a fancy 3D chat, and those are not exactly innovative or hard to implement.
I guess GP referred to the studies that concluded stuxnet would only activate some of its more dangerous parts only if the infected PLC had some very specific building blocks. So the "true" havoc would only be unlashed when the infected machine was part of a very specific facility (which was rumored, but never confirmed, to be "noclear plant", but that may be just some sensationalist's guess), while on all other infected hardware it would mostly stay ineffective, (apart from spreading and probably phoning home)
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What you probably observe is simple selection bias: Your peer group is usually not random, but usually consists of people that have some things in common. Thus, every "fact" that you observe in your peer group will tell more about what people you are likely to be friends with (or generally what people you are most likely to meet), than about the preferences ot the general population.
75% of my collegues use linux, but that says more about my current employer than about the market share of linux.
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Those in-flight entertainment systems are incredibly unstable. On 5 out of my last 8 inter-continental flights, I've seen at least one of them crashing/getting restarted (ranging from a single system to all machines in the section of the plane I could see). It's usually not linux itself that crashes, but either the client application or the server application. Unfortunately the only "repair operation" the crew is trained to use in that situation is "reboot the system and hope it comes up well. If not, reboot again".
So instead of praising NASA or even individual astronauts for going to the moon, we should really thank that the unknown guy who first told Kennedy "Hey, you know, the Russians are sending stuff into space. We should send somebody to the moon to best them!", because he's the one "to set the ball rolling"?
Anything non-live can be doctored with since decades (including "Videos similar to the ones Wikileaks leaked"). The ability to alter live video in that way however is, AFAIK, new. But as long as you can't verify that any given video broadcasted on TV is actually life, that's more a moot point (see countries with a strict censoring that require "live" video to be delayed for a short time so censoring can happen).
The race organizers would probably require networks that buy rights to air it to not scrub logos.
I'm pretty sure they already do.
Usually by saying "enhance" to the resident technic freak.
Well, as it's a *promoter* that's suing I doubt the plaintiff has any involvement in the actual science or engineering of the project.
They invested heavily in the project and the resarch to make this possible. Just to "pull the plug" because some asshole sues them does not only leave the asshole with the "square root of fuck all", but also everybody involved in this project.
Unfortunately the US is such a big market, else I'd say they should simply pull their producs out of the country and let the sucker try to sue in a more sane jurisdiction.
Its a pretty ordinary name in german speaking countries. It basically means "The lucky tree gardener". Daredevil indeed.
If you can't create "WoW, just better" from release, then stop trying. Create something different, cater to a different audience, create distinguishing features. WoW is good, but it's not the be all end all of the genre. I can imagine games with more interesting combat mechanics, or more interesting class systems, or a better PvP, or a richer crafting/trading experience than WoW. But whatever you do, remember to lauch good enough to be worth "not plaing WoW".
He won the first time *against a skilled opponent*. The prototype has probably won against a lot of humans during the development process. I guess I would lose frequently against any random algorithm, as I don't even know the rules of shogi; winning agains some arbitrary human would not be anthing newsworthy.
Every time a new MMO launches, I've got this baggage of playing WoW for 2-3 years. I expect the game that comes out to be as polished and as good as WoW. It's unfair but my logic just ends at "why don't I just play WoW instead." I hope other people are different but that's what I keep thinking and what leads to my termination of game play.
Actually "why don't I just play WoW instead." is exactly the question the games devs/execs should ask themselves. Because their games don't exist in a vacuum, they exist in a world where WoW has 12 million subscribers. If they want any share of that market, they have to give players a reason why not just to play WoW. And just "different" does not cut it if the game is basically beta or worse on launch.
I'm using 64bit for a long time, and it has been ready for prime time for a while now. The only 32bit applications you'll probably need are Flash (which will hopefully be replaced by the new 64bit version soon) and maybe Adobe Reader. Adobe reader works flawlessy stand-alone, but both Reader and Flash tend to be slightly more unstable as a firefox-plugin in a 64bit firefox than in a 32bit firefox.
$sudo apt-get install --dry-run mdadm
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The following extra packages will be installed:
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Please hand in your math license. The encoding has nothing to do with the property whether a number is prime or not. 4 base 10 is as prime as 100 base 2 (i.e. not at all)
Of course this is a cool "father and son" project. I think it's great that there are fathers out there doing this with their kids. However, there are lots of cool things parents can do with their kids that I'm not interested in reading on slashdot. It's simply not newsworthy. Thus, it *is* relevant that it has beed done before and that it did not actually reach space.
Actually pretty old Giant Penguin Overlords...
There are also dual clutch transmissions, that have no torque converter at all. Depending on the engine, they can even give you a better milage than the same engine with manual transmission.
Only that the important part for security is the "firewall" part, not the "NAT" part. If you use a NAT in conjunction with a firewall, you can drop the NAT without losing security. If you are using NAT without a firewall, there is no security so you don't lose any if you drop NAT. Bottom line: NAT is not a security mechanism. Wait, that's what GP already said...
RealID is not, and never was, used on the Blizzard forums. It was shortly planned to do so, but because of the have backlash from the users they never implemented it (and I doubt they will try to do that again).
Well, they DID listen to their customers and backed from using RealID on the forums. Now it's just a way to connect with friends on the games (ATM just WoW and SCII). You can (at least in WoW, dont know about SCII) still add friends the old way (character name). If you want to be able to chat when your friend plays a different game, or on a different server, you can use RealID. As you are not forced to do so, I don't believe it's a inherently bad system. However, the privacy options were definately needed, so I applaud this change.
There probably was a PHB behind RealID (which has been up&running for months now), but how did they learn nothing if they now offer privacy options for that? Actually I believe that is basically the first good idea they had for RealID.
Why would you need second life for that? The main feature of second life is the user created content, something you definately don't want on XBox Life. The rest is just a fancy 3D chat, and those are not exactly innovative or hard to implement.
I guess GP referred to the studies that concluded stuxnet would only activate some of its more dangerous parts only if the infected PLC had some very specific building blocks. So the "true" havoc would only be unlashed when the infected machine was part of a very specific facility (which was rumored, but never confirmed, to be "noclear plant", but that may be just some sensationalist's guess), while on all other infected hardware it would mostly stay ineffective, (apart from spreading and probably phoning home)