Strangely this wasn't the case for me in XP, in both home and work PCs, with Firefox 3.5.3 and the latest.NET.. uninstall worked just fine. So what's the truth? This is also a fresh (re-)install of the whole system, and last Tuesday Windows Update did say there's an update for.NET 3.5, so maybe the latest update made it uninstall-able?
Perhaps players can get some XP by figuring out which characters are actually PC's, that would be neat, you never know who's watching, so you'll have to fake being an NPC to survive the game.
Then again, what's the penalty for being caught? Can't be too harsh, otherwise it would be too unbalanced...
I was half-expecting an app that uses the camera and face-recognition software to tell you who the person is you're talking to. But from the video it's just an app that says "Who's this person?", shows you their photo from your address book, and gives you 4 name choices.
What... the... ffff? This counts as innovation?!? It's a fricking simple multiple-choice game, I could do that in JS and HTML (a.k.a Ajax(TM!))in 15 fricking minutes! And I wonder how often these dolts ask to take pictures of people they just met short enough that they don't expect to remember their names the next time around.
Opera fanboy says: Opera had zoom first! It even had image zoom, not just text-size! It can even be configured to zoom to 200% with one keystroke. And it even resizes most Flash content, e.g. YouTube videos. Opera ra ra!:p
Or just use Unlocker: http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ , it catches failed attempts to delete/move files and pops up a window showing you what's locking the file.
Well I suppose only the Chinese Joe Six-Pack will fall under Big Brother's eyes, I wonder what the law says about uninstalling the program, if nothing, then uninstall away!
If they do get serious about it, I'll bet a hacker will make the first "dud" program, it's probably only detectable through accessing a remote port, I'd make a quasi-VM, and let them spy in there!
Sheesh, do both of them also share your C:\ drive without your consent? NO! You have to configure them to do so! Opera Unite even defaults to "access with password only" with a randomly generated password - you have to explicitly choose "public" to allow random monkeys access.
Adobe Acrobat is the stupidest in their upgrade regime... it's a non-vital component, but after it updates itself: "You have to restart your computer in order to complete the updates. Restart now? Yes/No".
F*** you, if you were the kernel I'd understand.. you're just a viewer for an overused document format ffs!
Along with the 3 above posts I'd like to say, there's a nice NYTimes article about the OLPC program once, it's about learning, it mentioned how the adults are getting some education too, it ended with an anecdote about a mother who said she's been playing with the chess program on her son's laptop, she doesn't know how to play chess, and the article ends with "I think I am going to learn it."
Well, the Wii also uses Javascript, and it exposes the hardware via JS objects like wii and sound (IIRC), just like the JS objects document, window. So depending on how much they expose, the device can be really open..
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Strangely this wasn't the case for me in XP, in both home and work PCs, with Firefox 3.5.3 and the latest .NET .. uninstall worked just fine. So what's the truth? This is also a fresh (re-)install of the whole system, and last Tuesday Windows Update did say there's an update for .NET 3.5, so maybe the latest update made it uninstall-able?
Perhaps players can get some XP by figuring out which characters are actually PC's, that would be neat, you never know who's watching, so you'll have to fake being an NPC to survive the game.
Then again, what's the penalty for being caught? Can't be too harsh, otherwise it would be too unbalanced...
The passwords are in plain text because the script kiddies phished them, and that's the list that got leaked.
Indeed, and indeed for the 2nd paragraph.
Now I wish he'd given Apple the same treatment for their iPhone model. But then again, Jobs probably has more mojo than jwz.
How about the nauseating amateur camera-man imitating camera shaker machine.. barf. Windows 7 parties, guaranteed to make you puke.
Yeah, does the bank also have a branch in Second Life? Come on man, Second Life, it's the future! Even CNN has an office there!
Oh wait, it's not 2007 anymore...
to comply!
No one talkd about ED-209 yet?
I was half-expecting an app that uses the camera and face-recognition software to tell you who the person is you're talking to. But from the video it's just an app that says "Who's this person?", shows you their photo from your address book, and gives you 4 name choices.
What... the... ffff? This counts as innovation?!? It's a fricking simple multiple-choice game, I could do that in JS and HTML (a.k.a Ajax(TM!))in 15 fricking minutes! And I wonder how often these dolts ask to take pictures of people they just met short enough that they don't expect to remember their names the next time around.
this looks like an interesting and useful technology for us, can we please have it too?
Signed,
The US Citizens
Yeah, a few years ago everybody wanted to be in Second Life, it was "Web 3.0", some IBM-people were saying it's the new place to do business, etc.
Gee, whatever happened to that?
Meanwhile, the German Post is now on Facebook and Twitter. What do they tweet about? "Beware of phishers", feh, how interesting.
Opera fanboy says: Opera had zoom first! It even had image zoom, not just text-size! It can even be configured to zoom to 200% with one keystroke. And it even resizes most Flash content, e.g. YouTube videos. Opera ra ra! :p
Or just use Unlocker: http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ , it catches failed attempts to delete/move files and pops up a window showing you what's locking the file.
"Hello operator, I heard Megan Fox had a nipple slip..."
And don't forget AT&T, spying on US citizens since... oh I dunno, 9/11/2001?
Oh but wait, that's already been deemed legal.
Well I suppose only the Chinese Joe Six-Pack will fall under Big Brother's eyes, I wonder what the law says about uninstalling the program, if nothing, then uninstall away!
If they do get serious about it, I'll bet a hacker will make the first "dud" program, it's probably only detectable through accessing a remote port, I'd make a quasi-VM, and let them spy in there!
Your last paragraph reminds me, hey Firefox is open source, let's just fork it!
Rotsky!
Most of the add-ons seem to be in the category of widgets similar to what OS X has: http://www.ieaddons.com/ .. one of them seems to help in the search for kiddie porn though: http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/other/Microsoft_Fiddler/
Sheesh, do both of them also share your C:\ drive without your consent? NO! You have to configure them to do so! Opera Unite even defaults to "access with password only" with a randomly generated password - you have to explicitly choose "public" to allow random monkeys access.
But .mil is only for US military... OMG, is Al-Qaeda part of the US military!?!? You stumbled into the secret!
Jailbreak the thing, get ldid, ldid -S $APPNAME , the app runs on the device.
Then I believe the dev-team have stepped into the realm guarded by the DMCA dragon.
Although they might be able to use the "circumvention for reasons of interoperability" defense.
Adobe Acrobat is the stupidest in their upgrade regime... it's a non-vital component, but after it updates itself: "You have to restart your computer in order to complete the updates. Restart now? Yes/No".
F*** you, if you were the kernel I'd understand.. you're just a viewer for an overused document format ffs!
Along with the 3 above posts I'd like to say, there's a nice NYTimes article about the OLPC program once, it's about learning, it mentioned how the adults are getting some education too, it ended with an anecdote about a mother who said she's been playing with the chess program on her son's laptop, she doesn't know how to play chess, and the article ends with "I think I am going to learn it."
Well, the Wii also uses Javascript, and it exposes the hardware via JS objects like wii and sound (IIRC), just like the JS objects document, window. So depending on how much they expose, the device can be really open..