No, it's the user's fault in this case. There's bad software, then there's apathetic, stupid teenage baggage handlers.
Sometimes there is a Right Way and a Wrong Way to do things. It's not always true that if a person wants to do it in a certain way, they should be able to.
Q: will the loss of HDD mean that all games will be made without the HDD in mind, therefore effecting users of the premium pack?
A: absolute not. consider this last generation where somewhere in the neighborhood of 20% of game consoles had hard drives attached. this did not deter game developers from utilizing the hard drive both for exclusive games and cross platform games on xbox. this generation our first party team and our exclusive content developers are just as committed to using the hard drive and like we they demonstrated with this generation our third party cross platform developers are committed as well. games like splinter cell, madden, and tony hawk all demonstrated unique capabilities in hard drive configured systems.
What an idiot... "20% of systems had hard drives" -- yeah, but 100% of XBOXES had hard drives, and 100% -- count them! 100% of the XBox games are able to use it for something, if only storing saved games.
Compare this to the number of PS2 games that even have the OPTION to use a hard drive. He's trying to make it sound like the sometimes-absent HDD will be no problem. But it's a HUGE problem. There is yet to be ANY console with an optional hard drive that had more than one or two games support it.
Well, I'm your typical slashdotter, about 30 and a professional programmer. I just say that to say this: I've never read, heard, or seen a concept that couldn't be expressed in simple text typed into notepad. Furthermore, I'm pretty certain the vast majority of things I've read (think advertising) could benefit from some less "features."
I really don't understand why a police officer -- or anyone else for that matter -- would require more than the grandparent poster suggests. Rather than just making assertions ("You're arrogant and you have zero clue") why not educate us. Why do they need more? What, specifically, would they need? What idea is there that cannot be expressed in text?
Baud is SIGNALS per second. Modems haven't had a 1bit = 1baud correlation for a LONG time.
Picture it like this... if you can signal a 1 or a 0 on the line, then you have 1 baud = 1 bit. But if you can signal a 0,1,2 or 3 on the line, then you can fit TWO bits into each "baud".
Last time I checked into it, most modems were using at LEAST four states per signal.
Here's the first link on a google search for Baud:
I have tried the mod "both ways." The original mod did several things: it unlocked the flag, AND it replaced Rockstar's skins for the hot coffee with naked chicks. In Rockstar's code, they are clothed. It also sets you up to be dating all the girls in the game from the get-go, and it changes things so you get invited in for "coffee" after *every* date.
There is a newer version of the mod (which still was out well before this scandal) which only sets the flag. The girls remain clothed in the hot coffee scenes, you must still meet and woo the girls, and they'll only invite you in if you did well enough on the date.
While I don't disagree with your point, I think you sell short the enormous amount of effort put forth by certain Open Source developers to support Windows. Examples include Firefox, Postgresql, and Apache.
Sounds like you're talking about Verified by Visa (VbV) and Mastercard's similar program... the name of which momentarily escapes me.
Look into it. It's *exactly* what you're asking for.
Also, you may be interested to know that retaining he card number is A-OK by VISA regs, but retaining the CVV2 (that 3-digit code on the back of the card) gets you into MAJOR trouble with VISA.
I have no idea why more people have not posted similar ideas.
Seconded. I carry all my important passwords on the back of a business card in an inside pocket of my wallet. I *always* have my wallet on my person, and if I ever should lose it or the card, it's just like losing my credit card -- I know exactly what to do to make sure that data is immediately obsoleted.
I don't currently "encrypt" my passwords as they're written down, but I think that's probably a pretty good idea, too. I believe I will begin doing that myself.
The list I use though is just the passwords, I know what each one is for. I figure if I should lose it, no one will have any idea what the funny letters are for, and even if they assume they are passwords, they wouldn't know where to use them.
Of course I wouldn't stake my security on that assumption. If I should ever be compromised, those passwords get changed immediately!
Why? I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that even now, installations of the OS known as "Tiger" vastly outnumber actual tigers.
If there are more copies of Tiger than there are Tigers, then I'd say Google's just doing it's job.
Not to be a Google apologist. I think this filing is too obvious to be patented. It's just taking the obvious things you would look at to rank a page, and looking at it one level removed. Instead of asking how many links there are to my page, we're asking how many and when they were created. Big deal.
But surely a *software* keylogger, as I specified, is a piece of SOFTWARE that can therefore hook into whatever parts of the operating system it wants, no? Why would you limit your "keylogger" to only looking at the keyboard input? Wouldn't your average Windows-based keylogger do it all by reading messages in windows anyhow? Or are they hooking the interrupt, old-school style?
Why wouldn't a software keystroke logger simply hook the "focus-change" message and read the text in the control at that point? No amount of funny typing tricks would get you past that keylogger.
Check out this disclaimer on TiVo's page. I can't believe we've come to this. Litigious bastards.
his release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to, among other things, TiVo's business, services, business development, strategy, customers or other factors that may affect future earnings or financial results. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as, "believe," "expect," "may," "will," "intend," "estimate," "continue," or similar expressions or the negative of those terms or expressions. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to vary materially from those expressed in or indicated by the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially include delays in development, competitive service offerings and lack of market acceptance, as well as the "Factors That May Affect Future Operating Results." More information on potential factors that could affect the Company's financial results is included from time to time in the Company's public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004, and the Quarterly Reports on Form 10Q for the period(s) ended April 30, 2004, July 31, 2004, October 31, 2004, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We caution you not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect an analysis only and speak only as of the date hereof. TiVo disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
Batman, Spiderman, Superman, X-men, etc, etc, etc... all had old 8-bit incarnations that were successful and newer ones as well.
How about Raiders of the Lost Ark? Was there ever a 16-bit version of that? Even if not, I think I could say "Indiana Jones" and still be OK -- counting the whole concept rather than just the one movie. After all, we're not talking about a single Animaniacs episode...
And Star Wars, for that matter. Done up in every system from A to Z.
I don't think I can think of any other franchises that made the jump from 16-bit to next-gen, and this doesn't seem like it's going to bode well for the game's fate.
Not trying very hard, are you?
Off the top of my head, there's Mario, Zelda, and Metroid. Donkey Kong. Ninja Gaiden (and how!), Prince of Persia, etc.
And this just what my poor 5:00 Friday brain could come up with in ten seconds.
There's a TON of games that have "made the jump." Think harder.
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No, it's the user's fault in this case. There's bad software, then there's apathetic, stupid teenage baggage handlers.
Sometimes there is a Right Way and a Wrong Way to do things. It's not always true that if a person wants to do it in a certain way, they should be able to.
Mod parent up. I hadn't thought of this angle, but it seems pretty right-on. Good point, anyhow.
Q: will the loss of HDD mean that all games will be made without the HDD in mind, therefore effecting users of the premium pack?
A: absolute not. consider this last generation where somewhere in the neighborhood of 20% of game consoles had hard drives attached. this did not deter game developers from utilizing the hard drive both for exclusive games and cross platform games on xbox. this generation our first party team and our exclusive content developers are just as committed to using the hard drive and like we they demonstrated with this generation our third party cross platform developers are committed as well. games like splinter cell, madden, and tony hawk all demonstrated unique capabilities in hard drive configured systems.
What an idiot... "20% of systems had hard drives" -- yeah, but 100% of XBOXES had hard drives, and 100% -- count them! 100% of the XBox games are able to use it for something, if only storing saved games.
Compare this to the number of PS2 games that even have the OPTION to use a hard drive. He's trying to make it sound like the sometimes-absent HDD will be no problem. But it's a HUGE problem. There is yet to be ANY console with an optional hard drive that had more than one or two games support it.
Well, I'm your typical slashdotter, about 30 and a professional programmer. I just say that to say this: I've never read, heard, or seen a concept that couldn't be expressed in simple text typed into notepad. Furthermore, I'm pretty certain the vast majority of things I've read (think advertising) could benefit from some less "features."
I really don't understand why a police officer -- or anyone else for that matter -- would require more than the grandparent poster suggests. Rather than just making assertions ("You're arrogant and you have zero clue") why not educate us. Why do they need more? What, specifically, would they need? What idea is there that cannot be expressed in text?
How does a blind person see a font?
So Xbox 360 is actually a great deal compared to the Atari 2600 if you just look at price.
However it still lags behind in terms of gameplay...
(That's a JOKE, for the humor impaired.)
No, at least that DOES something. It could be used by someone, somewhere, to accomplish something. But the example in the article... it does nothing!
Here's the text:
I'm talking about the cartoon with Fred and Wilma!
And here's a substitution to remove those tags. But what's wrong with it?
s#(.*)#$1#g;
Uh... everything? What tags? Am I nuts, or doesn't s#(.*)#$1#g; always replace the entire string with itself? What could be more useless?
Baud is NOT bits per second.
Baud is SIGNALS per second. Modems haven't had a 1bit = 1baud correlation for a LONG time.
Picture it like this... if you can signal a 1 or a 0 on the line, then you have 1 baud = 1 bit. But if you can signal a 0,1,2 or 3 on the line, then you can fit TWO bits into each "baud".
Last time I checked into it, most modems were using at LEAST four states per signal.
Here's the first link on a google search for Baud:
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/baud.html
I have tried the mod "both ways." The original mod did several things: it unlocked the flag, AND it replaced Rockstar's skins for the hot coffee with naked chicks. In Rockstar's code, they are clothed. It also sets you up to be dating all the girls in the game from the get-go, and it changes things so you get invited in for "coffee" after *every* date.
There is a newer version of the mod (which still was out well before this scandal) which only sets the flag. The girls remain clothed in the hot coffee scenes, you must still meet and woo the girls, and they'll only invite you in if you did well enough on the date.
So both stories are true.
While I don't disagree with your point, I think you sell short the enormous amount of effort put forth by certain Open Source developers to support Windows. Examples include Firefox, Postgresql, and Apache.
It's a dupe of the most commented on story of the week, proving once again that the editors don't even take a passing interest in the site.
Sounds like you're talking about Verified by Visa (VbV) and Mastercard's similar program... the name of which momentarily escapes me.
Look into it. It's *exactly* what you're asking for.
Also, you may be interested to know that retaining he card number is A-OK by VISA regs, but retaining the CVV2 (that 3-digit code on the back of the card) gets you into MAJOR trouble with VISA.
This, combined with our patented duel resistant system, allows the user to do amazing things that have been only dreamed about before.
What good is a duel-resistant light saber? Sheesh!
I have no idea why more people have not posted similar ideas.
Seconded. I carry all my important passwords on the back of a business card in an inside pocket of my wallet. I *always* have my wallet on my person, and if I ever should lose it or the card, it's just like losing my credit card -- I know exactly what to do to make sure that data is immediately obsoleted.
I don't currently "encrypt" my passwords as they're written down, but I think that's probably a pretty good idea, too. I believe I will begin doing that myself.
The list I use though is just the passwords, I know what each one is for. I figure if I should lose it, no one will have any idea what the funny letters are for, and even if they assume they are passwords, they wouldn't know where to use them.
Of course I wouldn't stake my security on that assumption. If I should ever be compromised, those passwords get changed immediately!
Currently, the DIMES agent is available for Windows platforms only.
Apparently. How can they propose to map the internet when they're only paying attention to a fraction of it?
Sorry to respond to myself (and off topic, too... goodbye, karma!) but I just thought the comparison was interesting.
The minimum number of tigers in 1993 was 4400 and the maximum was 7700 where as in 2000/2001the minimum was 5700 and the maximum was 7000.
From: http://www.globaltiger.org/population.htm
I can't find any stats for installations of Tiger, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if there were more than 5700 copies out there.
So the operating system called Tiger might be more prevalent than actual Tigers are. That would be something, wouldn't it?
Why? I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that even now, installations of the OS known as "Tiger" vastly outnumber actual tigers.
If there are more copies of Tiger than there are Tigers, then I'd say Google's just doing it's job.
Not to be a Google apologist. I think this filing is too obvious to be patented. It's just taking the obvious things you would look at to rank a page, and looking at it one level removed. Instead of asking how many links there are to my page, we're asking how many and when they were created. Big deal.
Greetings Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada.
But surely a *software* keylogger, as I specified, is a piece of SOFTWARE that can therefore hook into whatever parts of the operating system it wants, no? Why would you limit your "keylogger" to only looking at the keyboard input? Wouldn't your average Windows-based keylogger do it all by reading messages in windows anyhow? Or are they hooking the interrupt, old-school style?
Why wouldn't a software keystroke logger simply hook the "focus-change" message and read the text in the control at that point? No amount of funny typing tricks would get you past that keylogger.
I guess I'm naieve then.
I think that's sad. Makes me think of instructions on a package of toothpicks.
Check out this disclaimer on TiVo's page. I can't believe we've come to this. Litigious bastards.
his release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to, among other things, TiVo's business, services, business development, strategy, customers or other factors that may affect future earnings or financial results. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as, "believe," "expect," "may," "will," "intend," "estimate," "continue," or similar expressions or the negative of those terms or expressions. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to vary materially from those expressed in or indicated by the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially include delays in development, competitive service offerings and lack of market acceptance, as well as the "Factors That May Affect Future Operating Results." More information on potential factors that could affect the Company's financial results is included from time to time in the Company's public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2004, and the Quarterly Reports on Form 10Q for the period(s) ended April 30, 2004, July 31, 2004, October 31, 2004, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We caution you not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect an analysis only and speak only as of the date hereof. TiVo disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
I'm not a player and that link doesn't lead to any information I can use ... can someone explain the problem?
Bit late now I guess, but hell yes I can!
Batman, Spiderman, Superman, X-men, etc, etc, etc... all had old 8-bit incarnations that were successful and newer ones as well.
How about Raiders of the Lost Ark? Was there ever a 16-bit version of that? Even if not, I think I could say "Indiana Jones" and still be OK -- counting the whole concept rather than just the one movie. After all, we're not talking about a single Animaniacs episode...
And Star Wars, for that matter. Done up in every system from A to Z.
I don't think I can think of any other franchises that made the jump from 16-bit to next-gen, and this doesn't seem like it's going to bode well for the game's fate.
Not trying very hard, are you?
Off the top of my head, there's Mario, Zelda, and Metroid. Donkey Kong. Ninja Gaiden (and how!), Prince of Persia, etc.
And this just what my poor 5:00 Friday brain could come up with in ten seconds.
There's a TON of games that have "made the jump." Think harder.