"It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about."
That described me about 3 nights out of the week when I was in college. Fortunately, I'm not black and I hate hoodies. When the story first broke, I opened the news article that showed a picture of Zimmerman. My first thought was "glad he's not white, that'd get ugly". Turns out he's half white and that's the part they're focusing... sort of like they focus on Obama's black half so he's our first black president. Whichever half is most convenient at the time, I suppose. I'm half deaf and I'll admit, sometimes I use the deaf half to ignore people and sometimes I use the hearing half when I want to listen to people.
Most of what I'm seeing there we already achieve through Active Directory without any third party solutions. Any company that only implements two levels of permissions (root and user) is either stuck in the 80s or else only has one user.
Because the wireless bridges the wired LAN to where the cable comes into the house, which is where the wireless AP is located. So the LAN is wired, except for the link back to the router. It's almost identical to the setup I had to use in college when they yanked all of the wired ports in favor of campus-wide 802.11n coverage about 5 years ago - great when you have a number of machines that don't have wireless cards and don't need a huge amount of bandwidth.
And for those of us who like games, but are still somewhat social, there's no substitution for being around a table. While there are some remote solutions to the talking part and even seeing each other, it's really freaking hard to share a pizza. I tried faxing it, but the machine gave an error. There's also the fact I maintain several machines networked together for people to come play on when they don't own the game at home. It's not always the same people coming over, so no - me owning four copies of a game isn't the same as everyone owning a copy.
I've heard of a few Mennonite cultures that allow them to work at call centers and the like (their use of technology is accepted as its part of earning a living) and the supervisors love them because they work very hard, take pride in doing a good job and never complain. My only complaint is that they let their kids play in the road far too much, I've almost hit a few of them on blind curves and hills when traveling through the backwoods.
My only complaint with Blizzard's implementation of Diablo 2 is that each patch (especially after 1.07 or so) drastically changed gameplay. Suddenly great sets were crap, great characters were crap, etc. Sure, it adds a level of replayability, but if I have a lvl 60 on its way to greatness, I don't want to trash it and start over on the Blood Moore with a new character.
So computer programs appear out of thin air? They don't require programmers, artists or project managers? With automobiles, there's heavy costs on both design and production. With software, almost all of the cost is shifted to design... but there's still significant cost that needs to be recouped.
This is basically my thought on it as well. Loved Diablo and Diablo II, but my wireless is a little flaky because of my apartment's layout so the only multiplayer that works well is on the LAN. I'd be ok with an online activation. I'd tolerate it checking in once a week or once a month. But I don't want to have to spend a half hour fudging around with the wireless signal every time I want to play an offline game.
It's kind of sad that you're defined by an operating system. Reminds me a bit of the Amish. Their level of technology is a big part of who they are, so they go without modern conveniences (including video games) just to stick to that. All fine and dandy, but you don't hear the Amish complaining that nobody makes spoilers compatible with their buggies because it's a lifestyle choice.
The thing I love most about Slashdot is that they wait until I've completely forgotten reading a story before they post it, so its like a whole new experience.
Older processors and hardware (such as the 386 and 486 era stuff) are still produced, usually for things such as factory robots that value reliability over everything else and don't require much in the way of processing power. Not sure where you might buy them at the consumer level.
I've created batch files to do something like this - running the batch file would open everything in a given folder. Not quite as good as implementing it right into the OS, but it worked for what I needed. It was handy for repetitive tasks I had to do daily or weekly (recording backups from a myriad of sources into a single spreadsheet was a big one).
When I was in college (about 3 years ago), they were discussing upgrading one of the wood shop's machine control PCs from OS/2 to Windows 95. I never found out if they went ahead with it, or where they planned to get a non-buggy version of Windows 95.
To be fair, with electronics (particularly those with no moving parts), if it doesn't fail within six months of normal use it's much less likely to be a manufacturer defect. It's one of the primary ideas behind giving computers a "burn-in" period before going into production. From personal experience, failures after the first few months are at least partially due to user error - particularly with mobile devices. Not saying it's always the case, just a healthy majority of them.
As a previous poster pointed out, trojans care not if it's Windows, Linux, Mac OSX or BSD because the user is the weak link, not the OS. All you need is 1) a trojan for that OS and 2) a user that gives the trojan permissions - most infections I've come across on Windows lately do not have administrator permissions unless the user does. Likewise, Facebook isn't so much the weak link as users are because they'll click on anything.
For Americans, I would assume it's because we associate fantasy with the Old World because that's where most of our myths and legends originate. And they have castles. And among the Old World, England is our closest tie (as well as speaking the same language). The majority of fantasy settings are basically just medieval-Europe-plus-wizards-and-dragons even if a location isn't given (or it takes place on another world)
If they're planning on limiting the resale value of games, then they better plan on lowering the price. I know a lot of people who justified spending $40 or $50 on a game because they knew they could sell it for $20 or $30 in 6 months when they got tired of it, making the end cost a reasonable $20 or so. A move like this might end up hurting sales in spite of forcing more people to buy directly from Sony (or Sony's retailers) because a large segment of the market can no longer use the money from selling older games to buy newer ones.
Big companies seem to think that consumers have an endless supply of money to spend on anything and everything they want... no concept of a consumer has $100 to spend on games this year. If titles are $50 each, then only two get sold. If titles are $50, but they can resell each for $25 then three games get sold.
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"It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about."
That described me about 3 nights out of the week when I was in college. Fortunately, I'm not black and I hate hoodies.
When the story first broke, I opened the news article that showed a picture of Zimmerman. My first thought was "glad he's not white, that'd get ugly". Turns out he's half white and that's the part they're focusing... sort of like they focus on Obama's black half so he's our first black president. Whichever half is most convenient at the time, I suppose. I'm half deaf and I'll admit, sometimes I use the deaf half to ignore people and sometimes I use the hearing half when I want to listen to people.
Most of what I'm seeing there we already achieve through Active Directory without any third party solutions. Any company that only implements two levels of permissions (root and user) is either stuck in the 80s or else only has one user.
Because the wireless bridges the wired LAN to where the cable comes into the house, which is where the wireless AP is located. So the LAN is wired, except for the link back to the router. It's almost identical to the setup I had to use in college when they yanked all of the wired ports in favor of campus-wide 802.11n coverage about 5 years ago - great when you have a number of machines that don't have wireless cards and don't need a huge amount of bandwidth.
And for those of us who like games, but are still somewhat social, there's no substitution for being around a table. While there are some remote solutions to the talking part and even seeing each other, it's really freaking hard to share a pizza. I tried faxing it, but the machine gave an error. There's also the fact I maintain several machines networked together for people to come play on when they don't own the game at home. It's not always the same people coming over, so no - me owning four copies of a game isn't the same as everyone owning a copy.
I've heard of a few Mennonite cultures that allow them to work at call centers and the like (their use of technology is accepted as its part of earning a living) and the supervisors love them because they work very hard, take pride in doing a good job and never complain. My only complaint is that they let their kids play in the road far too much, I've almost hit a few of them on blind curves and hills when traveling through the backwoods.
My only complaint with Blizzard's implementation of Diablo 2 is that each patch (especially after 1.07 or so) drastically changed gameplay. Suddenly great sets were crap, great characters were crap, etc. Sure, it adds a level of replayability, but if I have a lvl 60 on its way to greatness, I don't want to trash it and start over on the Blood Moore with a new character.
So computer programs appear out of thin air? They don't require programmers, artists or project managers? With automobiles, there's heavy costs on both design and production. With software, almost all of the cost is shifted to design... but there's still significant cost that needs to be recouped.
This is basically my thought on it as well. Loved Diablo and Diablo II, but my wireless is a little flaky because of my apartment's layout so the only multiplayer that works well is on the LAN. I'd be ok with an online activation. I'd tolerate it checking in once a week or once a month. But I don't want to have to spend a half hour fudging around with the wireless signal every time I want to play an offline game.
It's kind of sad that you're defined by an operating system. Reminds me a bit of the Amish. Their level of technology is a big part of who they are, so they go without modern conveniences (including video games) just to stick to that. All fine and dandy, but you don't hear the Amish complaining that nobody makes spoilers compatible with their buggies because it's a lifestyle choice.
I am Clamman! I was bitten by a radioactive clam and developed mutant powers such as sitting around doing nothing underwater!
The thing I love most about Slashdot is that they wait until I've completely forgotten reading a story before they post it, so its like a whole new experience.
No, his daughter is on drugs. Which poor people have, so everyone is allowed to have them!
You managed to run a 16 bit OS on an 8 bit processor? I'm impressed it worked that well.
Still not seeing the special. 59 is a multiple of 1. Humans have 1 of a lot more things than they have 10.
Why would there be a bit of a story in a year? How is 60 years any more special than 59 years?
Older processors and hardware (such as the 386 and 486 era stuff) are still produced, usually for things such as factory robots that value reliability over everything else and don't require much in the way of processing power. Not sure where you might buy them at the consumer level.
I've created batch files to do something like this - running the batch file would open everything in a given folder. Not quite as good as implementing it right into the OS, but it worked for what I needed. It was handy for repetitive tasks I had to do daily or weekly (recording backups from a myriad of sources into a single spreadsheet was a big one).
When I was in college (about 3 years ago), they were discussing upgrading one of the wood shop's machine control PCs from OS/2 to Windows 95. I never found out if they went ahead with it, or where they planned to get a non-buggy version of Windows 95.
I always assumed iProducts were forged at Mount Doom. Does this mean I don't need to keep simply walking into Cupertino to recycle my iProducts?
To be fair, with electronics (particularly those with no moving parts), if it doesn't fail within six months of normal use it's much less likely to be a manufacturer defect. It's one of the primary ideas behind giving computers a "burn-in" period before going into production. From personal experience, failures after the first few months are at least partially due to user error - particularly with mobile devices. Not saying it's always the case, just a healthy majority of them.
As a previous poster pointed out, trojans care not if it's Windows, Linux, Mac OSX or BSD because the user is the weak link, not the OS. All you need is 1) a trojan for that OS and 2) a user that gives the trojan permissions - most infections I've come across on Windows lately do not have administrator permissions unless the user does. Likewise, Facebook isn't so much the weak link as users are because they'll click on anything.
Relatively low (compared to XP/Win7) and continually declining marketshare would be my guess.
Why insult working women either?
One does not merely walk into Parliament.
However, one can try to merely tunnel under Parliament with a good bit of gunpowder...
For Americans, I would assume it's because we associate fantasy with the Old World because that's where most of our myths and legends originate. And they have castles. And among the Old World, England is our closest tie (as well as speaking the same language). The majority of fantasy settings are basically just medieval-Europe-plus-wizards-and-dragons even if a location isn't given (or it takes place on another world)
If they're planning on limiting the resale value of games, then they better plan on lowering the price. I know a lot of people who justified spending $40 or $50 on a game because they knew they could sell it for $20 or $30 in 6 months when they got tired of it, making the end cost a reasonable $20 or so. A move like this might end up hurting sales in spite of forcing more people to buy directly from Sony (or Sony's retailers) because a large segment of the market can no longer use the money from selling older games to buy newer ones.
Big companies seem to think that consumers have an endless supply of money to spend on anything and everything they want... no concept of a consumer has $100 to spend on games this year. If titles are $50 each, then only two get sold. If titles are $50, but they can resell each for $25 then three games get sold.