They should have cut them off immediately, when there were 4 million PCs connecting to them. How are people supposed to learn?
By them instead routing 100% of their internet pages to a site telling them they have a virus and how to undo the rogue settings. Then again a malicious browser hijacker telling you to do something shouldn't be trusted but obviously these people are pretty stupid to begin with so it would sort of work.
Maybe the RIAA should take some of those massive profits they didn't actually lose, build a spaceship, and go get it. It makes sense to be worried though, as aliens likely have the technology to duplicate files and discs quite rapidly.
What an idiot. You give me a keyboard and mouse and I'll perform any task faster than 10 tablet users pounding away with their fingers. Give my PC a complex task, it'll finish processing it 10x faster. Give me a DVD and I'll um...put it into my computer lol. Touchscreen typing makes you borderline disabled from a computer use standpoint and every single person who owns a tablet says it's downright painful to try to type a simple facebook post on it. I type around 95WPM so yeah, not a big tablet fan.
That sort of describes the original retail release as well, lol. It had amazing storytelling and history and quests but the pathfinding abilities and maps and dungeon design were pretty awful. Also, the artwork was pretty bad. It was so-so for the era but by today's standards, it's terrible. Since the construction kit to mod the map that was included with the game itself originally is one of the best I've ever seen, it is definitely worth it to save. It's really efficient, fast, easy to navigate, etc. So if they can stuff better movement animations and better, higher res textures and other artwork into it, it'd be the best FOSS game ever.
My only concern is the engine is really glitchy in that you can fall through objects accidentally and get stuck constantly and that's not so easy to fix.
For those of us that only took high school particle physics then got IT degrees (aka most of us) can someone post what a neutron, proton, and electron are actually made out of with this "standard model" and how the Higgs boson comes into play to give them mass? Oh and photons and neutrinos too since I think they have a tiny tiny tiny bit of mass so they must have a higgs boson inside them too or something but somehow express a different mass than "larger" particles. I dunno. Someone explain it, lol. I think that'd help explain this a lot better than some of the posts above which are still a bit over our heads.
EXACTLY! Mod every single one of those stupid trolls above this down and me back up. They said water. Water = liquid. They didn't say ice or steam or dihydrogen oxide, they said WATER. In fact they said when liquid water flows into other liquid water, the temperature change makes it change density. Water does not do that! Many, many, many machines and inventions rely on the fact that water does not compress. Even under 20 tons of pressure deep in the ocean, water still doesn't compress. This is idiotic that people on slashdot are stupid enough to actually think I'm wrong about a basic fact of physics.
Unfortunately, that significant difference is not "they can't use Wine to hack the game, run bots, and generally cheat" so I would bet they're staying banned. Plus, who plays modern 3D games in Wine? That's just asking for instability let alone bans. It reminds me of running games an early Parallels version. REALLY fun that one was.
As warmer water is mixed down into the oceans, it causes thermal expansion of the water.
Well then it's a darn good thing water doesn't actually change density based on temperature. What dumbass wrote that nonsense? A middle school physics student can tell you water doesn't expand or contract under any conditions.
That's why you register as Hater McTots at 123 Nowhere Ln, Springfield, Alaska, HatersGonnaHateSrsly4realz@hotmail.com. Hand that over to the government lol. Seriously, who would be stupid enough to not do that if they're posting something controversial or whatever?
Given their affinity for Firefox updates, I'm sure everyone can assume their entire data plan will be burned up just on updates if they get one of these phones.
You know what's really budget-friendly? Use a cheap, poorly managed cloud service that crashes all the time like Amazon's or Microsoft's lol. You know how expensive proper electrical backup equipment and programmers who know what they're doing are? Lol, anyway the real truth is you can look into it all day and get verified, guaranteed quotes and think you're set. Then, once they have your data and your pricing guarantee period or contract or whatever expires, there's no stopping them from raising the price to whatever they want now that they have your data. And do they have to allow you to export all your data to switch services? Hell no!
Maybe all smartphone makers should review other companies' patents BEFORE they make a phone. Then if there's something legit, don't put it in your phone. If there's something not legit, try to get the patent invalidated. That would definitely save some money. But I guess "screw it, let's just make a phone and deal with it later" works too.
Ubuntu was supposed to be really user friendly and hand-holdy compared to other versions of Linux but I tried it anyway. I attempted to install Java to turn it into a Runescape machine (it was a while ago lol) and it took over a dozen hand-typed, 50+ character commands in the command line to run it properly. A single right click and run as root function would have made all the files execute properly, all the libraries register, etc.
I do find ipconfig and chkdsk commands and their resulting output the fastest and most helpful compared to a UI but that's because they're short commands. So I vote no to endless pointless typing of impossible to remember file paths and stuff and yes to short and quick text commands that do simple things. They're just faster.
My lab of engineers have came up with this. Take away the 1% of drivers who have no business driving and hold up hundreds of people behind them and get in multiple accidents that cause a 10 mile backup and traffic will move a hell of a lot better than 1% better. There have been numerous studies saying 1 person can affect hundreds of people in any traffic system. So get grandma, the 20 year old semis, and borderline psychological problems people off the road and that'll do better than any AI routing.
Too bad we can't stop troll posts on Slashdot. Do you realize that instead of anonymous tweets, you can simply register a dummy account in 60 seconds and tweet whatever you want "anonymously" and that it has nothing to do with censorship whatsoever, nor would they ever EVER censor tweets based on political content.
Not only did I get annoyed for like 3 whole minutes last night at the tail end of the netflix downtime but I also couldn't download an important software patch form a vendor on Friday because it was hosted on the amazon cloud download service thing. By the way, Netflix apparently doesn't have a damn thing for single point of failure adaptation, seeing as how their entire website itself was down and wouldn't even respond to a ping. They can't even load a freaking "sorry, we're having problems" page on a backup host? Yeah, real adaptive. Oh and good call hosting your site on the same service that your videos stream from. That's really smart.
How did this happen anyway? The cloud is magic...MAGIC!!!!!! You cannot destroy magic! It must have been a dark wizard. That or all the cloud product salesmen are full of shit.
So there's a Windows version of it that targets Tibetan activists but they bothered to make a mac version of it to...in case Tibetan activists had macs? WHAT?! I don't think they have that kind of money. Something doesn't quite add up there. Whatever, I don't care as long as it knock Apple down a peg again. That "we're magically immune to viruses" crap they finally removed from their website was about 10 years overdue.
Well I don't know where that work is but at my work, we need worker's comp insurance, SS payments, medicare payments, payroll processing fees, health insurance, OSHA compliance costs, ADA compliance costs, really high rent or real estate prices, really high property taxes, equipment lease use taxes, and really high utility costs. I'm not saying they're bad or I'm against those things, I'm just saying that's why I'm the only one who actually works here. Hiring someone would cost more than I pay myself so oh well.
Maybe HP finally realized that if you're going to run Windows, you're probably going to want to run Windows apps. So yeah, x86 it is. I think Windows on ARM is stupid because it'd be Windows but with less software written for it than Android, iOS, Linux, probably Solaris too lol. They'd be starting from scratch basically so there goes the Windows "run anything" benefit. I don't think surface had a whole lot to do with it.
Subject unrelated lol. Anyway, do note that there are bitcoin casinos already set up on the web and since the US doesn't recognize bitcoins as an actual currency so BTC generated from "nowhere" by mining can be gambled with. That's some stuff someone posted on the bitcoin forum but it sounds true lol.
So anyway, Fox's On Demand player can't verify that I pay for cable because I'm a Time Warner customer and apparently that's just too complicated for them. So if Fox can't do it, how is Delaware going to verify that a person is actually in Delaware?
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Maybe they should call it the eBrain instead of iBrain since Apple didn't make it. If Apple did make it, the EULA would say they own your brain.
They should have cut them off immediately, when there were 4 million PCs connecting to them. How are people supposed to learn?
By them instead routing 100% of their internet pages to a site telling them they have a virus and how to undo the rogue settings. Then again a malicious browser hijacker telling you to do something shouldn't be trusted but obviously these people are pretty stupid to begin with so it would sort of work.
Maybe the RIAA should take some of those massive profits they didn't actually lose, build a spaceship, and go get it. It makes sense to be worried though, as aliens likely have the technology to duplicate files and discs quite rapidly.
Or they could just sell off some of that alien technology they have. Just sayin :-P
What an idiot. You give me a keyboard and mouse and I'll perform any task faster than 10 tablet users pounding away with their fingers. Give my PC a complex task, it'll finish processing it 10x faster. Give me a DVD and I'll um...put it into my computer lol. Touchscreen typing makes you borderline disabled from a computer use standpoint and every single person who owns a tablet says it's downright painful to try to type a simple facebook post on it. I type around 95WPM so yeah, not a big tablet fan.
That sort of describes the original retail release as well, lol. It had amazing storytelling and history and quests but the pathfinding abilities and maps and dungeon design were pretty awful. Also, the artwork was pretty bad. It was so-so for the era but by today's standards, it's terrible. Since the construction kit to mod the map that was included with the game itself originally is one of the best I've ever seen, it is definitely worth it to save. It's really efficient, fast, easy to navigate, etc. So if they can stuff better movement animations and better, higher res textures and other artwork into it, it'd be the best FOSS game ever.
My only concern is the engine is really glitchy in that you can fall through objects accidentally and get stuck constantly and that's not so easy to fix.
For those of us that only took high school particle physics then got IT degrees (aka most of us) can someone post what a neutron, proton, and electron are actually made out of with this "standard model" and how the Higgs boson comes into play to give them mass? Oh and photons and neutrinos too since I think they have a tiny tiny tiny bit of mass so they must have a higgs boson inside them too or something but somehow express a different mass than "larger" particles. I dunno. Someone explain it, lol. I think that'd help explain this a lot better than some of the posts above which are still a bit over our heads.
EXACTLY! Mod every single one of those stupid trolls above this down and me back up. They said water. Water = liquid. They didn't say ice or steam or dihydrogen oxide, they said WATER. In fact they said when liquid water flows into other liquid water, the temperature change makes it change density. Water does not do that! Many, many, many machines and inventions rely on the fact that water does not compress. Even under 20 tons of pressure deep in the ocean, water still doesn't compress. This is idiotic that people on slashdot are stupid enough to actually think I'm wrong about a basic fact of physics.
Unfortunately, that significant difference is not "they can't use Wine to hack the game, run bots, and generally cheat" so I would bet they're staying banned. Plus, who plays modern 3D games in Wine? That's just asking for instability let alone bans. It reminds me of running games an early Parallels version. REALLY fun that one was.
Of course, water doesn't expand or contract based on temperature though. So....there's that.
Well then it's a darn good thing water doesn't actually change density based on temperature. What dumbass wrote that nonsense? A middle school physics student can tell you water doesn't expand or contract under any conditions.
If they're soooo concerned about stopping their competition's phones, maybe they should just buy the entire shipment of phones lol.
That's why you register as Hater McTots at 123 Nowhere Ln, Springfield, Alaska, HatersGonnaHateSrsly4realz@hotmail.com. Hand that over to the government lol. Seriously, who would be stupid enough to not do that if they're posting something controversial or whatever?
Given their affinity for Firefox updates, I'm sure everyone can assume their entire data plan will be burned up just on updates if they get one of these phones.
You know what's really budget-friendly? Use a cheap, poorly managed cloud service that crashes all the time like Amazon's or Microsoft's lol. You know how expensive proper electrical backup equipment and programmers who know what they're doing are? Lol, anyway the real truth is you can look into it all day and get verified, guaranteed quotes and think you're set. Then, once they have your data and your pricing guarantee period or contract or whatever expires, there's no stopping them from raising the price to whatever they want now that they have your data. And do they have to allow you to export all your data to switch services? Hell no!
Maybe all smartphone makers should review other companies' patents BEFORE they make a phone. Then if there's something legit, don't put it in your phone. If there's something not legit, try to get the patent invalidated. That would definitely save some money. But I guess "screw it, let's just make a phone and deal with it later" works too.
Ubuntu was supposed to be really user friendly and hand-holdy compared to other versions of Linux but I tried it anyway. I attempted to install Java to turn it into a Runescape machine (it was a while ago lol) and it took over a dozen hand-typed, 50+ character commands in the command line to run it properly. A single right click and run as root function would have made all the files execute properly, all the libraries register, etc.
I do find ipconfig and chkdsk commands and their resulting output the fastest and most helpful compared to a UI but that's because they're short commands. So I vote no to endless pointless typing of impossible to remember file paths and stuff and yes to short and quick text commands that do simple things. They're just faster.
My lab of engineers have came up with this. Take away the 1% of drivers who have no business driving and hold up hundreds of people behind them and get in multiple accidents that cause a 10 mile backup and traffic will move a hell of a lot better than 1% better. There have been numerous studies saying 1 person can affect hundreds of people in any traffic system. So get grandma, the 20 year old semis, and borderline psychological problems people off the road and that'll do better than any AI routing.
Too bad we can't stop troll posts on Slashdot. Do you realize that instead of anonymous tweets, you can simply register a dummy account in 60 seconds and tweet whatever you want "anonymously" and that it has nothing to do with censorship whatsoever, nor would they ever EVER censor tweets based on political content.
Not only did I get annoyed for like 3 whole minutes last night at the tail end of the netflix downtime but I also couldn't download an important software patch form a vendor on Friday because it was hosted on the amazon cloud download service thing. By the way, Netflix apparently doesn't have a damn thing for single point of failure adaptation, seeing as how their entire website itself was down and wouldn't even respond to a ping. They can't even load a freaking "sorry, we're having problems" page on a backup host? Yeah, real adaptive. Oh and good call hosting your site on the same service that your videos stream from. That's really smart.
How did this happen anyway? The cloud is magic...MAGIC!!!!!! You cannot destroy magic! It must have been a dark wizard. That or all the cloud product salesmen are full of shit.
Maybe nobody had a spare Gmail invite to send those people so they had to stay on hotmail lol.
So there's a Windows version of it that targets Tibetan activists but they bothered to make a mac version of it to...in case Tibetan activists had macs? WHAT?! I don't think they have that kind of money. Something doesn't quite add up there. Whatever, I don't care as long as it knock Apple down a peg again. That "we're magically immune to viruses" crap they finally removed from their website was about 10 years overdue.
Well I don't know where that work is but at my work, we need worker's comp insurance, SS payments, medicare payments, payroll processing fees, health insurance, OSHA compliance costs, ADA compliance costs, really high rent or real estate prices, really high property taxes, equipment lease use taxes, and really high utility costs. I'm not saying they're bad or I'm against those things, I'm just saying that's why I'm the only one who actually works here. Hiring someone would cost more than I pay myself so oh well.
Maybe HP finally realized that if you're going to run Windows, you're probably going to want to run Windows apps. So yeah, x86 it is. I think Windows on ARM is stupid because it'd be Windows but with less software written for it than Android, iOS, Linux, probably Solaris too lol. They'd be starting from scratch basically so there goes the Windows "run anything" benefit. I don't think surface had a whole lot to do with it.
Subject unrelated lol. Anyway, do note that there are bitcoin casinos already set up on the web and since the US doesn't recognize bitcoins as an actual currency so BTC generated from "nowhere" by mining can be gambled with. That's some stuff someone posted on the bitcoin forum but it sounds true lol.
So anyway, Fox's On Demand player can't verify that I pay for cable because I'm a Time Warner customer and apparently that's just too complicated for them. So if Fox can't do it, how is Delaware going to verify that a person is actually in Delaware?