Uh oh! The Radar Men are going to be ticked! Quick, we'd better call... (dramatic pause) COMMANDO CODY! Don't worry, Mr. Coward! COMMANDO CODY will soon come to the rescue!
Gee, golly, gosh. Isn't that swell?
And now that you mention it, yes I have been spending too much time in the Internet Archive. Why do ask?:-P
Your assumptions about "target painting" are incorrect.
You sir, are very strange. I just said that the Revo controller CANNOT be target painting, because target painting doesn't work on LCDs. And it had BETTER NOT be the same ultrasonics as the Power Glove, because the Power Glove sucked.
No fast forward or rewind ability, enforced by DRM on the player.
More likely, enforced by the fact that you're streaming the data. While most video programs try to read ahead, the buffer likely wouldn't be more than enough to miss a single commercial.
Sony and Microsoft will copy it immediately. And that will leave the Revolution where, exactly?
As the market leader? As AMD can tell you, it's much nicer to make the other guy dance to your tune rather than dancing to his. The customers will see you as The Source(TM) for the latest and greatest, and mostly ignore the copycats.
Guys... it's just a freaking light gun game. Tell me it's not. This isn't a badass 'Halo killer.' It's next-gen Duck Hunt.
Really? I wasn't aware that Duck Hunt allowed you free-movement in a 3D environment. Oooohhh, that's right. It didn't.
This isn't the next Duck Hunt, and (unless it's on rails, which apparently it's not) it's not the next Time Crisis either. What it is, is a new generation of First Person Shooters that actually work on a console. No more fidgeting with those tiny analog controllers! You can now take aim and fire, all while strafing, running, jumping, (can we do Matrix style flipping, puullleeeazze?), and dodging. If this works out, Nintendo will have again revolutionized the console controller! Which would be impressive, considering that their Gamecube controller just didn't live up to its predecessors.
Of course, that's a pretty big "if". Nintendo is telling us that they've developed inexpensive positional monitors that are more natural than a light gun with target-painting, but with a full controller built in. Given that most of us remember how horrid the Power Glove was (Lucas: "I love the Power Glove. It's so bad." Yeah, right.) and that target painting doesn't work on LCD screens, Nintendo has one heck of a tall order to fill.
I'm not really sure what to make of this statement.
Allow me to explain: Michael Roberts does business by drawing attention to himself. He makes various outlandish statements that he simply can't backup. (Remember when Lindows was going to run 90% of the Windows programs?) If you want to make something of his statements, interpret them as nothing more than pandering to the audience.
What's your email address? I'll send you an ELF formatted virus called "Run this Because It's Cool". It should make it through the virus filtering just fine. Really, I will.
(No, not really. I'm just trying to make a point.)
My point is, what's to stop someone from sending you a Linux virus right now? Nothing? Wow, what a shocker.
1. That's not a vector. That's a poor social engineering attack that virus writers hope they might exploit for 1 in a million really dumb users. On Windows, at least the file will execute when they click on it.
2. Mailing the virus to hundreds of users from Windows would be no different than mailing the virus to hundreds of users from Linux. The only difference is that the address book on Linux is statistically more likely to contain more Linux users.
To what end? Will we fine the IRS until they can't collect taxes?
If you want to see the IRS punished, make heads roll when bad things happen. Which means things like:
1. Management can be fired if a huge screwup happens 2. Massive screwups can result in fines against management 3. Charges can be brought against the parties responsible for the screwup
Once their necks are on the line, you can be certain that the top level of IRS management will put pressure on the entire organization to prevent security issues.
That being said, the IRS is likely suffering from the same problem as the rest of the goverment agencies: Too much work, not enough manpower/funding. Putting more pressure on the IRS may only result in making it harder to find IRS employees.
That's why potential hackers wouldn't. They'd want to leave things nice and tidy, just the way they found them.
Who in their right mind would hack into the IRS
Someone looking for information on Bill Gates' bank accounts, or perhaps information useful in blackmailing someone. Financial information is very sensitive stuff. The IRS gets more than their share during normal filings. Just imagine how much info they collect during an audit!
This story acts as we should be surprised. The government serves the people. The IRS, on the other hand, serves the government. I let you figure out where the disconnect is.
"For those thinking their "pet" computer is invulnerable to the virus threat -- it's not," SANS said.
Cue ominous thunder. (rolls eyes)
All this means is that data communications and storage has reached a point in time where no one (in theory) is going to notice that infected files get 3 or 4 megs chunkier. The virus writers still have to find vectors into these systems. If they can't find convenient vectors, then the ability to produce a fat binary is useless.
What is this need that security researchers have to claim that all systems are equally vulnerable? Are they worried they're going to be out of a job if everyone moves to more secure computing platforms? I mean, really. They should be encouraging mass migrations to other systems, as it diversifies the playing field and theoretically helps everyone remain safer. But I guess that's not their bread and butter.
"You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any one would sue you and take your coat, let him have your cloak as well; and if any one forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to him who begs from you, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you. You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust." (Matthew 5:38:45 RSV)
Just another viewpoint for you. Or to put it another way, do you let the wind keep pushing you off your feet, or do you turn into it to brace yourself against it?
The kids tormented him, yes. They bullied him. But they only have something to bully as long as the target of their cruelness allows it to continue. As soon as one stops reacting, the bullies find themselves without power.
but it was certainly developed under Amelio's reign.
Says who? Jobs was back at Apple in '96, and took over as CEO in '97. Unless you want to say that the iMac was in development for some 3 years, I don't see how Jobs couldn't have had a hand in directing development.
I'm not sure I really understand the above. USB didn't come out until the late nineties, it's hardly Spindler's fault earlier Macs didn't come with it.
His point is that current Macs are easily identifiable by their hardware options. Instead of having massive matrices of complex features, Apple takes the stance of putting everything into the machine that belongs in a given price range. That means that you can look at an iBook, and unequivically say, "That's the 2 USB model running a G3 processor, and originally OS X 10.2." This makes several things a lot easier:
* Easier to produce hardware periperals for (e.g. memory upgrades, Wifi cards, etc.) * Easier for customers to find the periperal they're looking for * Easier to support * Easier to produce parts for * Easier to test software across all models * Easier for customers to find the model they want, since only the MAJOR feature vary. * Just all around easier for everyone involved.
modems were still relatively rare peripherals in the early nineties.
I'm not quite sure where you get that idea. Modems have been common since the 80's, especially once Compuserve took off. Those who weren't business users tended to use modems for accessing BBSes and public access computers. The Internet may not have caught on until around '94-'95, but there were a number of uses for modems before that. Leaving modems off their machines was a huge mistake.
This would seem to be backed up by the fact that the iMac, which clearly influenced everything Apple has done since,
1. The only thing left over from the iMac is the name. Apple has moved to very different designs that focus on ease of use and only the necessary options. The iMac was the first step toward today's designs, but it's incredibly different than what Apple puts out now.
2. The iMac was developed after Jobs returned to Apple. From Wikipedia:
Steve Jobs streamlined the company's large and confusing product lines immediately after becoming Apple's interim CEO in 1997; towards the end of the year, Apple trimmed its line of desktop Macs down to the beige Power Macintosh G3 series. Having discontinued the consumer-targeted Performa series, Apple needed a replacement for the Performa's price point. The company announced the iMac on May 7, 1998, and started shipping the iMac on August 15 of that year. The launch of the iMac was a landmark event for its time, and had a massive impact on both the company and the computer industry.
During Amelio's tenure, Apple's stock hit a 12-year low, and in the second quarter of 1997, the company lost $708 million. Amelio was widely criticized as lacking vision and marketing ability. Many did not appreciate his "wooziness" (Ed Fullenmauker 1997). Board member Ed Woolard announced his termination on July 4, 1997, and Amelio left the company the next day. He was replaced by Steve Jobs.
Showing a 10 year graph on BigCharts, reveals that the peak of the stock price is in 2006.
for what I see Jobs ideas is getting old and they wont keep apple up together. Watch what happens when in a year from now apple hand out press releases to another Special Event and nobody turns up. Spindler had this long term strategy and Jobs sadly lacking there.
So, Jobs' strategy of meeting the market's needs before they realize they have those needs is not a long term strategy? Methinks that you need a serious reality check.
Putting aside Spindlers abilities, Jobs has shown explosive growth in BOTH companies he currently acts as CEO for. (Apple and Pixar.) Under his reign, BOTH companies have continued to produce products that have continually upped their market share. Under Jobs, BOTH companies have continued this upward climb for decades. Sure, Jobs' tenure was broken up, but while he was CEO the company has always thrived.
Love him or hate him (probably some of both), he does a bang up job as an executive leader. There's no one I would trust more at the helm of Apple. Or any other company, for that matter.
That sounds like most PC gamers to me, actually. Casual gamers are more likely to stick to a console.
I think they mean "occasional gamers," not "casual gamers". People always throw around the "casual gamer" term without understanding what market it actually represents.
That being said, online gaming is still a big market for casual gaming. The only problem the market has run into is, how do you make money off of all these users who want fast, fun, and free games? It's been a bit of a sticky issue. We'll see if the whole cell phone gaming craze takes off or not.
Only one way to resolve this...
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Thanks! I've been dying to post that one for awhile, but I couldn't figure out how to work it in until now. The only downside is that everyone realizes it's a joke. It would have been funnier if I'd managed to string along a few newbs.:-P
I have a confession to make. I am not the Dread Slashdotter AKAImBatman. My name is Bob. I inherited this account from the previous Dread Slashdotter AKAImBatman, just as others will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from was not the real Dread Slashdotter AKAImBatman, either. His name was George. The real AKAImBatman has been retired five years and living like a king in San Francisco. The name, you see, is the important thing for inspiring the necessary fear. No one would surrender to the "Dread Slashdotter Bob," so the name passes from generation to generation.
I'm wondering how it became the "world's most expensive mp3 player."
What? The 24 caret gold and studded diamonds aren't enough of a tipoff?
Honestly, I think it looks terrible. If you're going to make a player out of Gold and Diamonds, make it look like it's made of Gold and Diamonds. Don't just plate a regular player with a black, plastic screen and green LEDs. It will clash with all the expensive decorations.
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Uh oh! The Radar Men are going to be ticked! Quick, we'd better call... (dramatic pause) COMMANDO CODY! Don't worry, Mr. Coward! COMMANDO CODY will soon come to the rescue!
:-P
Gee, golly, gosh. Isn't that swell?
And now that you mention it, yes I have been spending too much time in the Internet Archive. Why do ask?
Are you certain that this game does allow free movement?
Yep. It explicitly said in TFA that this was NOT a "ride the rails" game, and that movement is free-roam.
If you use the "pointing" ability of the controller to look and shoot, what do you use for movement?
Either:
A) The D-Pad
B) The attachable analog stick
The more likely answer is B.
Your assumptions about "target painting" are incorrect.
You sir, are very strange. I just said that the Revo controller CANNOT be target painting, because target painting doesn't work on LCDs. And it had BETTER NOT be the same ultrasonics as the Power Glove, because the Power Glove sucked.
So, I'm not following your point here.
No fast forward or rewind ability, enforced by DRM on the player.
More likely, enforced by the fact that you're streaming the data. While most video programs try to read ahead, the buffer likely wouldn't be more than enough to miss a single commercial.
Sony and Microsoft will copy it immediately. And that will leave the Revolution where, exactly?
As the market leader? As AMD can tell you, it's much nicer to make the other guy dance to your tune rather than dancing to his. The customers will see you as The Source(TM) for the latest and greatest, and mostly ignore the copycats.
Guys... it's just a freaking light gun game. Tell me it's not. This isn't a badass 'Halo killer.' It's next-gen Duck Hunt.
Really? I wasn't aware that Duck Hunt allowed you free-movement in a 3D environment. Oooohhh, that's right. It didn't.
This isn't the next Duck Hunt, and (unless it's on rails, which apparently it's not) it's not the next Time Crisis either. What it is, is a new generation of First Person Shooters that actually work on a console. No more fidgeting with those tiny analog controllers! You can now take aim and fire, all while strafing, running, jumping, (can we do Matrix style flipping, puullleeeazze?), and dodging. If this works out, Nintendo will have again revolutionized the console controller! Which would be impressive, considering that their Gamecube controller just didn't live up to its predecessors.
Of course, that's a pretty big "if". Nintendo is telling us that they've developed inexpensive positional monitors that are more natural than a light gun with target-painting, but with a full controller built in. Given that most of us remember how horrid the Power Glove was (Lucas: "I love the Power Glove. It's so bad." Yeah, right.) and that target painting doesn't work on LCD screens, Nintendo has one heck of a tall order to fill.
I'm not really sure what to make of this statement.
Allow me to explain: Michael Roberts does business by drawing attention to himself. He makes various outlandish statements that he simply can't backup. (Remember when Lindows was going to run 90% of the Windows programs?) If you want to make something of his statements, interpret them as nothing more than pandering to the audience.
What's your email address? I'll send you an ELF formatted virus called "Run this Because It's Cool". It should make it through the virus filtering just fine. Really, I will.
(No, not really. I'm just trying to make a point.)
My point is, what's to stop someone from sending you a Linux virus right now? Nothing? Wow, what a shocker.
1. That's not a vector. That's a poor social engineering attack that virus writers hope they might exploit for 1 in a million really dumb users. On Windows, at least the file will execute when they click on it.
2. Mailing the virus to hundreds of users from Windows would be no different than mailing the virus to hundreds of users from Linux. The only difference is that the address book on Linux is statistically more likely to contain more Linux users.
To what end? Will we fine the IRS until they can't collect taxes?
If you want to see the IRS punished, make heads roll when bad things happen. Which means things like:
1. Management can be fired if a huge screwup happens
2. Massive screwups can result in fines against management
3. Charges can be brought against the parties responsible for the screwup
Once their necks are on the line, you can be certain that the top level of IRS management will put pressure on the entire organization to prevent security issues.
That being said, the IRS is likely suffering from the same problem as the rest of the goverment agencies: Too much work, not enough manpower/funding. Putting more pressure on the IRS may only result in making it harder to find IRS employees.
you don't f*** with the IRS.
That's why potential hackers wouldn't. They'd want to leave things nice and tidy, just the way they found them.
Who in their right mind would hack into the IRS
Someone looking for information on Bill Gates' bank accounts, or perhaps information useful in blackmailing someone. Financial information is very sensitive stuff. The IRS gets more than their share during normal filings. Just imagine how much info they collect during an audit!
IRS Leaves Taxpayer Data Largely Unprotected
This story acts as we should be surprised. The government serves the people. The IRS, on the other hand, serves the government. I let you figure out where the disconnect is.
"For those thinking their "pet" computer is invulnerable to the virus threat -- it's not," SANS said.
Cue ominous thunder. (rolls eyes)
All this means is that data communications and storage has reached a point in time where no one (in theory) is going to notice that infected files get 3 or 4 megs chunkier. The virus writers still have to find vectors into these systems. If they can't find convenient vectors, then the ability to produce a fat binary is useless.
What is this need that security researchers have to claim that all systems are equally vulnerable? Are they worried they're going to be out of a job if everyone moves to more secure computing platforms? I mean, really. They should be encouraging mass migrations to other systems, as it diversifies the playing field and theoretically helps everyone remain safer. But I guess that's not their bread and butter.
Just another viewpoint for you. Or to put it another way, do you let the wind keep pushing you off your feet, or do you turn into it to brace yourself against it?
The kids tormented him, yes. They bullied him. But they only have something to bully as long as the target of their cruelness allows it to continue. As soon as one stops reacting, the bullies find themselves without power.
but it was certainly developed under Amelio's reign.
Says who? Jobs was back at Apple in '96, and took over as CEO in '97. Unless you want to say that the iMac was in development for some 3 years, I don't see how Jobs couldn't have had a hand in directing development.
His point is that current Macs are easily identifiable by their hardware options. Instead of having massive matrices of complex features, Apple takes the stance of putting everything into the machine that belongs in a given price range. That means that you can look at an iBook, and unequivically say, "That's the 2 USB model running a G3 processor, and originally OS X 10.2." This makes several things a lot easier:
* Easier to produce hardware periperals for (e.g. memory upgrades, Wifi cards, etc.)
* Easier for customers to find the periperal they're looking for
* Easier to support
* Easier to produce parts for
* Easier to test software across all models
* Easier for customers to find the model they want, since only the MAJOR feature vary.
* Just all around easier for everyone involved.
modems were still relatively rare peripherals in the early nineties.
I'm not quite sure where you get that idea. Modems have been common since the 80's, especially once Compuserve took off. Those who weren't business users tended to use modems for accessing BBSes and public access computers. The Internet may not have caught on until around '94-'95, but there were a number of uses for modems before that. Leaving modems off their machines was a huge mistake.
This would seem to be backed up by the fact that the iMac, which clearly influenced everything Apple has done since,
1. The only thing left over from the iMac is the name. Apple has moved to very different designs that focus on ease of use and only the necessary options. The iMac was the first step toward today's designs, but it's incredibly different than what Apple puts out now.
2. The iMac was developed after Jobs returned to Apple. From Wikipedia:
Showing a 10 year graph on BigCharts, reveals that the peak of the stock price is in 2006.
2005 revenues were 13.93 billion, whereas the historical revenues for Amelio's time show a peak of 11 billion.
I don't know where you're getting your information, but I certainly can't corroborate it.
for what I see Jobs ideas is getting old and they wont keep apple up together. Watch what happens when in a year from now apple hand out press releases to another Special Event and nobody turns up. Spindler had this long term strategy and Jobs sadly lacking there.
So, Jobs' strategy of meeting the market's needs before they realize they have those needs is not a long term strategy? Methinks that you need a serious reality check.
Putting aside Spindlers abilities, Jobs has shown explosive growth in BOTH companies he currently acts as CEO for. (Apple and Pixar.) Under his reign, BOTH companies have continued to produce products that have continually upped their market share. Under Jobs, BOTH companies have continued this upward climb for decades. Sure, Jobs' tenure was broken up, but while he was CEO the company has always thrived.
Love him or hate him (probably some of both), he does a bang up job as an executive leader. There's no one I would trust more at the helm of Apple. Or any other company, for that matter.
That sounds like most PC gamers to me, actually. Casual gamers are more likely to stick to a console.
I think they mean "occasional gamers," not "casual gamers". People always throw around the "casual gamer" term without understanding what market it actually represents.
That being said, online gaming is still a big market for casual gaming. The only problem the market has run into is, how do you make money off of all these users who want fast, fun, and free games? It's been a bit of a sticky issue. We'll see if the whole cell phone gaming craze takes off or not.
...GoogleFight!
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Sorry dude. The unwashed masses have spoken. Time to upgrade!
Thanks! I've been dying to post that one for awhile, but I couldn't figure out how to work it in until now. The only downside is that everyone realizes it's a joke. It would have been funnier if I'd managed to string along a few newbs. :-P
I am not the Dred Pirate Robinson
*cough*Roberts*cough*
I don't think you want to be confusing Princess Bride with a Disney Movie.
I have a confession to make. I am not the Dread Slashdotter AKAImBatman. My name is Bob. I inherited this account from the previous Dread Slashdotter AKAImBatman, just as others will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from was not the real Dread Slashdotter AKAImBatman, either. His name was George. The real AKAImBatman has been retired five years and living like a king in San Francisco. The name, you see, is the important thing for inspiring the necessary fear. No one would surrender to the "Dread Slashdotter Bob," so the name passes from generation to generation.
*sniff* Now you know the terrible secret.
How about a Sun E450 for on the go tunes? Nothing quite like hauling an Enterprise Class server in the trunk, eh? ;-)
I'm wondering how it became the "world's most expensive mp3 player."
What? The 24 caret gold and studded diamonds aren't enough of a tipoff?
Honestly, I think it looks terrible. If you're going to make a player out of Gold and Diamonds, make it look like it's made of Gold and Diamonds. Don't just plate a regular player with a black, plastic screen and green LEDs. It will clash with all the expensive decorations.