For better or worse, they couldn't. In PHP, the '::' token is already reserved for derefencing the members of a static class.
Come on, everybody. There's no shortage of legitimate reasons to ridicule PHP, but "doesn't use all the same punctuation as a few other programming languages" isn't one of them.
When the homebrew community anticipates upcoming fixes and pre-emptively beats them, then I'll concede that they are indeed one step ahead.
Well, if the community has already beat the 'fix', Nintendo isn't going to consider it a fix, now are they?
The periods of time during which homebrew execution is successfully prevented are measured in hours; the periods during which it is not, in months. To me, that demonstrates that it is the homebrewers that are AT LEAST one step ahead, probably several.
To imagine that female law enforcement agents would involve themselves with such behaviours as part of investigative work is, frankly, horrendous.
Female law enforcement agents are adults. They are fully capable of making their own decisions.
If they made the decision that subjecting themselves to depraved sexual situations for 'the greater good' of bringing down an organized crime syndicate was a sacrifice they were willing to make, who are you to second-guess them?
Assuming that the scenario you describe was ever even part of this investigation. TFA only mentions agents "posing as [gang members'] girlfriends." The part about the initiation rituals seems to be an inferrence on your part.
The CD format has been here for 27 years with no signs of leaving soon.
And the media of some of those commercial CD releases from the early- to mid-1980s has degraded to the point where the music on them can't be listened to anymore.
You don't even want to know the problems I've had trying to get data off of CD-Rs I've burned, and the oldest of those is from "only" 1999.
CD/DVD drives will be around for another 20 years, but what good are they if your archival media succumbed to bit rot years ago?
when they last recompiled PHP, they set the register_globals setting to "on", thus allowing our site (and who knows how many others) to get hacked.
I don't think it's fair for you to put all of the blame on the ISP and none on yourselves, especially if it's your belief that the only way to change the setting is to "recompile PHP".
Is SDHC really a hardware thing? I've had plenty of devices that have enabled it with a firmware update.
SDHC is electrically compatible with SD and uses the same pinout, but they use different addressing modes; with vanilla SD, each address value represents a single word; with SDHC, it represents a block.
Depending on how the device has implemented I/O, it may or may not be possible to add SDHC support with a firmware or driver update.
the only first party game for the Wii I've found that I actually genuinely like is Super Smash Bros Brawl, which has decent production values
Really? My impression from playing SSBB was "the Smash Bros. gameplay has now been through 3 iterations with almost no changes (or significant graphical uplifts) and is now feeling very, very dated."
(Mario Kart Wii - probably the worst "big title" game of 2008 so far on any platform, due to some really dodgy design decisions).
And such as? I don't think the game is perfect -- course designs tend to be a little too much "on rails", rather than freely explorable like the N64 edition, and the Wii Wheel is uncomfortable to use -- but I find it to be one of the best games in the Mario Kart series, and one of the best games released for the Wii thus far.
popular concept that "casual" games are effectively "rushed, low quality" games. The novelty of the controller has worn off now and the Wii won't be the hot, trendy main-stream ticket this coming Christmas that it was last year.
People were saying that a year ago, too, and the Wii was still the hot item of the season.
I will grant you that some circumstances have changed since this time last year -- more and more people who want Wiis have already found and bought them, and there is now an Xbox 360 model that costs even less than the Wii -- but I'm confident that the "novelty" of the system has not "worn off", and that it will likely still be the best-selling console this Christmas.
The octothorpe and the musical sharp sign are not the same character, despite having similar and sometimes indistinguishable glyphs -- the former is U+0023 in Unicode, the latter U+266F.
For ease of typing and representation, octothorpe is often substituted in place of sharp; similarly, lowercase 'b' is often substituted in place of the musical flat sign, and two hyphens are substituted for a proper em-dash.
OLPC is on the ropes, and it took a couple more years than I predicted, but here are the toymakers coming through for us with Pandora!
Compared to the OLPC XO-1, the Pandora: - costs twice as much - is available in even fewer quantities - has no education-oriented software available - has no education-oriented infrastructure in place
In what way is it a suitable alternate for an educational mission?
(Also I disagree that "bitness" is completely meaningless.)
I disagree with your disagreement.
Depending on what point the Marketing department wants to make, "bitness" could refer to any of the following: - word size in CPU instruction decoder - word size in CPU registers - word size in co-processors, such as graphics chips - address bus width - data bus width - color depth of graphics hardware - DAC resolution of audio hardware - sum of "bitness" of multiple processors - other meanings as convenient
None of these values need to be identical, and in game consoles often have not been. With no baseline for meaning, comparisons of any two hardware designs on the basis of "bitness" are entirely meaningless.
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The SNES was just a more powerful NES by most counts
By most counts, yes, but not by some of the counts that matter the most. The SNES was the first console to have shoulder buttons on the controllers, the first to have the diamond-shaped 4-face-button configuration still found on PlayStations and Xboxen today, the first major home console to use wavetable synthesis for audio and bitmap scaling/rotation for graphics.
the N64 was, yet again, another Cartridge system when everyone else was using optical media, it was just a bit more powerful
It also introduced analog controls back to the home console for the first time since the Atari 2600's paddles. (Yes, Atari 5200 and Vectrex had analog joysticks standard issue, but you can count the number of titles that used the analog capabilities on one hand.)
I'm actually kind of surprised at how little credit for innovation you're willing to give Nintendo. I don't think most gamers see it the same way you do.
Hence the parent's use of lowercase-f free, as in gratis. You're arguing against a point he didn't make.
In fact you're a little worse off because you can't even disassemble the server source to see how it works
Are you serious? This is no longer 1978. Software is so large and complex that unless it's a mission-critical issue that is costing thousands of dollars per second, it is never worth the effort to study code by disassembling an executable.
I tried disassembling a ROM image of the game "Super Mario Bros." for the NES a little while ago, out of sheer curiosity. I lost interest before the point where the title screen is displayed.
Don't many cheaper soundcards skip internal midi processors and do it all in software anyhow?
Yes, and they often sound like deep-fried ass, and are partly responsible for the continuing reputation of MIDI as "cheezy sounding", despite it being the same technology used for most of the soundtrack work we hear every day.
They threw GameCube backwards compatibility in on the Wii, though. If they were trying to call it something besides a GameCube (successor), they sure stirred up a lot of confusion with that move.
With rare exceptions, most kids who are going to get less than a 50% on something are never going to get the grades in the second semester that will give them a passing grade.
If you're halfway through the school year and you have yet to demonstrate that you understand even half of the class material, you do not DESERVE a passing grade for the year.
Repeating a class isn't intended to be a punishment -- it's intended to guarantee that every student has the prerequisite knowledge for the next year's class. If a student struggles with the basics, he'll be completely overwhelmed when he encounters more advanced concepts.
If I were HP (or Ford or AT&T), I wouldn't be a good "netizen" without giving consideration to what the blocks of/8 addresses are worth.
How much did they buy them for originally? Oh, those numbers weren't actually bought, but rather leased out from a registry funded by US taxpayer dollars?
IP addresses are a public resource, and entities that will not use that resource responsibly can have their access to it curtailed. If IANA has the status of your allocation listed as 'LEGACY', and you're not a governmental entity, look out.
I own a Sony 60" 1080p tv. I own a HD DVD player. I own a BR player. I rent an HD DVR from Cox. I can tell the difference between HD and SD. I have no desire to go back to SD. I paid new technology prices for each player and it was worth it to me.
I have no desire to use digital downloads. I like my physical copy. I'll make my own digital copies, but thanks anyway.
The Blu-Ray consortium is banking on there being a large number of consumers like you (well, except for that 'making your own copies' part -- that makes you a monster in their eyes).
I think one of the points of all these experiments, is that if you can save $100,000 a month on A/C and environmental costs, at the expense of reducing the life of $500,000 worth of hardware by 20%, you actually save money
Maybe.
What are the environmental costs of throwing out a data centers' worth of busted hardware every four years instead of five? How many cubic miles of landfill would that be if every company with a datacenter adopted the view that it's better to let a server fry itself every once in a while than to provide sufficient HVAC to keep them operating within spec?
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Plus they did not even evaluate '::'
For better or worse, they couldn't. In PHP, the '::' token is already reserved for derefencing the members of a static class.
Come on, everybody. There's no shortage of legitimate reasons to ridicule PHP, but "doesn't use all the same punctuation as a few other programming languages" isn't one of them.
When the homebrew community anticipates upcoming fixes and pre-emptively beats them, then I'll concede that they are indeed one step ahead.
Well, if the community has already beat the 'fix', Nintendo isn't going to consider it a fix, now are they?
The periods of time during which homebrew execution is successfully prevented are measured in hours; the periods during which it is not, in months. To me, that demonstrates that it is the homebrewers that are AT LEAST one step ahead, probably several.
To imagine that female law enforcement agents would involve themselves with such behaviours as part of investigative work is, frankly, horrendous.
Female law enforcement agents are adults. They are fully capable of making their own decisions.
If they made the decision that subjecting themselves to depraved sexual situations for 'the greater good' of bringing down an organized crime syndicate was a sacrifice they were willing to make, who are you to second-guess them?
Assuming that the scenario you describe was ever even part of this investigation. TFA only mentions agents "posing as [gang members'] girlfriends." The part about the initiation rituals seems to be an inferrence on your part.
The CD format has been here for 27 years with no signs of leaving soon.
And the media of some of those commercial CD releases from the early- to mid-1980s has degraded to the point where the music on them can't be listened to anymore.
You don't even want to know the problems I've had trying to get data off of CD-Rs I've burned, and the oldest of those is from "only" 1999.
CD/DVD drives will be around for another 20 years, but what good are they if your archival media succumbed to bit rot years ago?
Some of them even have discreet graphics at that price.
What, like an LCD that's not viewable from oblique angles?
People shouldn't be looking at certain stuff on their notebooks in public anyway.
Shots? Of scotch?
You're definitely doing it wrong.
when they last recompiled PHP, they set the register_globals setting to "on", thus allowing our site (and who knows how many others) to get hacked.
I don't think it's fair for you to put all of the blame on the ISP and none on yourselves, especially if it's your belief that the only way to change the setting is to "recompile PHP".
They want the processors to tolerate more heat, not generate more heat.
And where does the heat that the CPU needs to tolerate come from? From inside the CPU itself!
We're not talking about a reverse-heatsink scenario here where the ambient temperature of the air inside the case is hotter than the CPU core itself.
Is SDHC really a hardware thing? I've had plenty of devices that have enabled it with a firmware update.
SDHC is electrically compatible with SD and uses the same pinout, but they use different addressing modes; with vanilla SD, each address value represents a single word; with SDHC, it represents a block.
Depending on how the device has implemented I/O, it may or may not be possible to add SDHC support with a firmware or driver update.
the only first party game for the Wii I've found that I actually genuinely like is Super Smash Bros Brawl, which has decent production values
Really? My impression from playing SSBB was "the Smash Bros. gameplay has now been through 3 iterations with almost no changes (or significant graphical uplifts) and is now feeling very, very dated."
(Mario Kart Wii - probably the worst "big title" game of 2008 so far on any platform, due to some really dodgy design decisions).
And such as? I don't think the game is perfect -- course designs tend to be a little too much "on rails", rather than freely explorable like the N64 edition, and the Wii Wheel is uncomfortable to use -- but I find it to be one of the best games in the Mario Kart series, and one of the best games released for the Wii thus far.
popular concept that "casual" games are effectively "rushed, low quality" games. The novelty of the controller has worn off now and the Wii won't be the hot, trendy main-stream ticket this coming Christmas that it was last year.
People were saying that a year ago, too, and the Wii was still the hot item of the season.
I will grant you that some circumstances have changed since this time last year -- more and more people who want Wiis have already found and bought them, and there is now an Xbox 360 model that costs even less than the Wii -- but I'm confident that the "novelty" of the system has not "worn off", and that it will likely still be the best-selling console this Christmas.
loupgarou21 somehow got modded up to "+4 Insightful" for recapitulating the same anti-Wii garbage that's cluttered gamer blogs for two years now.
The octothorpe and the musical sharp sign are not the same character, despite having similar and sometimes indistinguishable glyphs -- the former is U+0023 in Unicode, the latter U+266F.
For ease of typing and representation, octothorpe is often substituted in place of sharp; similarly, lowercase 'b' is often substituted in place of the musical flat sign, and two hyphens are substituted for a proper em-dash.
OLPC is on the ropes, and it took a couple more years than I predicted, but here are the toymakers coming through for us with Pandora!
Compared to the OLPC XO-1, the Pandora:
- costs twice as much
- is available in even fewer quantities
- has no education-oriented software available
- has no education-oriented infrastructure in place
In what way is it a suitable alternate for an educational mission?
(Also I disagree that "bitness" is completely meaningless.)
I disagree with your disagreement.
Depending on what point the Marketing department wants to make, "bitness" could refer to any of the following:
- word size in CPU instruction decoder
- word size in CPU registers
- word size in co-processors, such as graphics chips
- address bus width
- data bus width
- color depth of graphics hardware
- DAC resolution of audio hardware
- sum of "bitness" of multiple processors
- other meanings as convenient
None of these values need to be identical, and in game consoles often have not been. With no baseline for meaning, comparisons of any two hardware designs on the basis of "bitness" are entirely meaningless.
The SNES was just a more powerful NES by most counts
By most counts, yes, but not by some of the counts that matter the most. The SNES was the first console to have shoulder buttons on the controllers, the first to have the diamond-shaped 4-face-button configuration still found on PlayStations and Xboxen today, the first major home console to use wavetable synthesis for audio and bitmap scaling/rotation for graphics.
the N64 was, yet again, another Cartridge system when everyone else was using optical media, it was just a bit more powerful
It also introduced analog controls back to the home console for the first time since the Atari 2600's paddles. (Yes, Atari 5200 and Vectrex had analog joysticks standard issue, but you can count the number of titles that used the analog capabilities on one hand.)
I'm actually kind of surprised at how little credit for innovation you're willing to give Nintendo. I don't think most gamers see it the same way you do.
Absolutely none of that is Free.
Hence the parent's use of lowercase-f free, as in gratis. You're arguing against a point he didn't make.
In fact you're a little worse off because you can't even disassemble the server source to see how it works
Are you serious? This is no longer 1978. Software is so large and complex that unless it's a mission-critical issue that is costing thousands of dollars per second, it is never worth the effort to study code by disassembling an executable.
I tried disassembling a ROM image of the game "Super Mario Bros." for the NES a little while ago, out of sheer curiosity. I lost interest before the point where the title screen is displayed.
Don't many cheaper soundcards skip internal midi processors and do it all in software anyhow?
Yes, and they often sound like deep-fried ass, and are partly responsible for the continuing reputation of MIDI as "cheezy sounding", despite it being the same technology used for most of the soundtrack work we hear every day.
Because that isn't performance, that's distribution.
It's also not just distribution, it's creation of a derivative work.
They threw GameCube backwards compatibility in on the Wii, though. If they were trying to call it something besides a GameCube (successor), they sure stirred up a lot of confusion with that move.
The GameBoy line of portables ended with the GameBoy Advance.
GameBoy Advance begat GameBoy Advance SP, which begat GameBoy Micro...
With rare exceptions, most kids who are going to get less than a 50% on something are never going to get the grades in the second semester that will give them a passing grade.
If you're halfway through the school year and you have yet to demonstrate that you understand even half of the class material, you do not DESERVE a passing grade for the year.
Repeating a class isn't intended to be a punishment -- it's intended to guarantee that every student has the prerequisite knowledge for the next year's class. If a student struggles with the basics, he'll be completely overwhelmed when he encounters more advanced concepts.
If I were HP (or Ford or AT&T), I wouldn't be a good "netizen" without giving consideration to what the blocks of /8 addresses are worth.
How much did they buy them for originally? Oh, those numbers weren't actually bought, but rather leased out from a registry funded by US taxpayer dollars?
IP addresses are a public resource, and entities that will not use that resource responsibly can have their access to it curtailed. If IANA has the status of your allocation listed as 'LEGACY', and you're not a governmental entity, look out.
I own a Sony 60" 1080p tv.
I own a HD DVD player.
I own a BR player.
I rent an HD DVR from Cox.
I can tell the difference between HD and SD.
I have no desire to go back to SD.
I paid new technology prices for each player and it was worth it to me.
I have no desire to use digital downloads. I like my physical copy. I'll make my own digital copies, but thanks anyway.
The Blu-Ray consortium is banking on there being a large number of consumers like you (well, except for that 'making your own copies' part -- that makes you a monster in their eyes).
I don't think there are.
Why on god's green earth did you spend over a thousand dollars on a device that makes your experience LESS enjoyable overall?
I think one of the points of all these experiments, is that if you can save $100,000 a month on A/C and environmental costs, at the expense of reducing the life of $500,000 worth of hardware by 20%, you actually save money
Maybe.
What are the environmental costs of throwing out a data centers' worth of busted hardware every four years instead of five? How many cubic miles of landfill would that be if every company with a datacenter adopted the view that it's better to let a server fry itself every once in a while than to provide sufficient HVAC to keep them operating within spec?