You know whats especially sad about this is - is Adobe actually implemented a redaction tool in Acrobat 8 that completely removes that data per word or over a larger area. However the metadata for this file looks like they are using 7 (still - 3rd party redaction tools exist for this product).
Sounds like they need to upgrade - after all they definitely have the money to do so.
Do you think the decreased level curve in aoc is an issue for noobs? I've heard it takes one played day to get to max level. I think if the entry level is lower the more kids will be running going "will you PLEASE run me through x dungeon?!".
I think one of the things that kept kids out of games like EQ was the sheer amount of time and effort it took - nothing came easy (I would argue little in WoW comes easy either, but its at least attainable). I used to play L2 (Lineage 2) - same thing - no kids, but it was a rather hardcore game and it took a lot of effort/work (yes it felt like a second job) to get anywhere in that game.
I personally don't care if someone else has a piece of gear I have - I just want to play a game that is fun. I play wow now, but I'm wishing that the end game stuff was a bit more accessible. While I know and realize that end game raiding in WoW isn't nearly as hard core as L2 or EQ - it still requires an amazing amount of effort and work - not that I'm opposed to effort, but I do think they could make those instances fun without being massive gear checks.
Or - maybe I'm missing the point of/flex with all kinds of epic gear.
WoW is an extremely dull game unless you have friends that play. I wouldn't play it at all if they quit. But yeah if you don't have any friends that play - don't - its very dull.
Quests that do you also get more and more complicated and challenging - its not just go get this item turn it in. Probably one of the more fun quests at lvl 60 you get to fly around bombing targets.
I think its safe to say that the bulk of the game starts at lvl 15-20 (when you can start doing dungeons). At lvl 70 you can do higher end dungeons and raids - which are pretty fun actually.
I don't think it will make much of a dent sadly. The game is still too unrefined, and the animations are pretty horrible.
WoW didn't just get mass market appeal overnight - they actually did it by giving gamers a very polished MMO. WoW players complain about bugs all the time, but really its small potatoes to what came before - and none of these bugs are what I'd call critical.
Oddly enough the one time I've seen data recovery done on a hdd was dept of forrestry research project at OSU - they had a laptop that was taken to South America to gather data - on the way back something happened and it no-longer read the data off the disk. They sent the drive off to ontrack to recover it because it was cheaper than going back down collect more data.
It was a good long while ago (120 meg hdd as I recall) and I'm leaving out a lot of details I know, but its a good example where backups are kind hard to do. This was back when having an internet connection was a novelty - granted they could have lugged around floppy disks I suppose.
With my brother - it was a tragedy for sure, but my advice would be to hire and retain a lawyer. You pretty much need one to sort out all the things he left behind anyhow since some debt collectors would love to have other family members pay off their debts.
Except there are HP Laserjets that sell for less than the toner cartridges that go into them (I've seen hp laserjets for like 250-300 dollars with cartridges that cost 150 a piece - and you need 4 of them). And a lot of these printers will only let you use the oem cartridges.
This whole ink mess isn't just about inkjets - it applies to laser printers too.
Seriously - tell me how this is different than say - having the Mac elevation prompt pop up to install a rootkit that applications can call to bypass OSX security?
Sadly a lot of engineering decisions are made by marketing people and not engineers. Read Ralph Nader's book - unsafe at any speed. The engineers actually designed the car properly, but it was management who changed the design to cut costs at the safety of the car itself.
Eh? If they have less money - they'll just spend more of what they don't have.
They are already spending more than they take in right now...
I like how you blame it on democrats too - Bush lowers taxes, but spends more than any democrat. Essentially what he's doing is deferring any really hard financial decisions to the next guy/girl in power. Its like a stealth raise in taxes because the more deficit spending that occurs the more worthless our dollar is.
Viva la Vista. Oddly enough this is the one feature people really hate about Vista, but Microsoft did close a rather gaping hole - ie everyone running as admin.
When Adobe as is all developers are told Carbon was going to have the same features are Cocoa - mainly to make it easy to transition from OS9 to OSX, and are told in 2006 that 64 bit Carbon was a promised feature, and Apple pulls support for 64 bit Carbon in 2007 that gives Adobe less than a year to react. I honestly don't see why Apple can't continue to develop it until OSX is eol'd.
In an already small product cycle (about 18 months to 2 years) that means essentially making a pretty significant design decision on a very big project midway through the product lifecycle - not 10 years ago.
Also Apple hasn't been saying "you're not supposed to be using Carbon anymore!" - if anything they encouraged developers by a) saying it was going to be feature equivalent to Cocoa and b) was going to have 64 bit support.
This 64bit issue is no one's fault except Adobe who have had nearly a decade's warning that they needed to move from Carbon to Cocoa.
You make it sound like software development is so simple. Especially when everything on the Mac is a moving target. They change API's every patch and every OS version. I know in my own Mac development we spend most of our time QA'ing the existing code against every little thing Apple does to OSX. Maintaining code for Photoshop on X86, Intel 64 and 32 bit versions has to be a daunting task. I'll bet the spent most of this time this last couple years porting the product from code warrior to xcode - and I've heard from friends close to Adobe that they had a lot of problems with xcode handling such a large project. Little crap like that can severely delay development of a product feature on a platform.
Ultimately the user doesn't care - after all the OS is supposed to be transparent - and Apple certianly didn't make it easy on developers.
The fact that everyone is so pissed off at Adobe about this move shows they care deeply about the product though:).
Also - Aperature is no Photoshop killer - or even replacement.
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I love WoW - it brings out the best examples of nerd rage I've ever seen online.
Literally...
Seriously though - WoW isn't about winning the game - if you start playing with that in mind - forget about it.
For me its largely a social experience. I play with my friends at work (and elsewhere) if they quit playing I probably would too.
You know whats especially sad about this is - is Adobe actually implemented a redaction tool in Acrobat 8 that completely removes that data per word or over a larger area. However the metadata for this file looks like they are using 7 (still - 3rd party redaction tools exist for this product).
Sounds like they need to upgrade - after all they definitely have the money to do so.
Case in point
Do you think the decreased level curve in aoc is an issue for noobs? I've heard it takes one played day to get to max level. I think if the entry level is lower the more kids will be running going "will you PLEASE run me through x dungeon?!".
/flex with all kinds of epic gear.
I think one of the things that kept kids out of games like EQ was the sheer amount of time and effort it took - nothing came easy (I would argue little in WoW comes easy either, but its at least attainable). I used to play L2 (Lineage 2) - same thing - no kids, but it was a rather hardcore game and it took a lot of effort/work (yes it felt like a second job) to get anywhere in that game.
I personally don't care if someone else has a piece of gear I have - I just want to play a game that is fun. I play wow now, but I'm wishing that the end game stuff was a bit more accessible. While I know and realize that end game raiding in WoW isn't nearly as hard core as L2 or EQ - it still requires an amazing amount of effort and work - not that I'm opposed to effort, but I do think they could make those instances fun without being massive gear checks.
Or - maybe I'm missing the point of
WoW is an extremely dull game unless you have friends that play. I wouldn't play it at all if they quit. But yeah if you don't have any friends that play - don't - its very dull.
Quests that do you also get more and more complicated and challenging - its not just go get this item turn it in. Probably one of the more fun quests at lvl 60 you get to fly around bombing targets.
I think its safe to say that the bulk of the game starts at lvl 15-20 (when you can start doing dungeons). At lvl 70 you can do higher end dungeons and raids - which are pretty fun actually.
Except my character runs around like he's holding quarters up his ass - seriously.
The actual combat animations I didn't think looked better than wow - it seemed cumbersome in comparison.
I don't think it will make much of a dent sadly. The game is still too unrefined, and the animations are pretty horrible.
WoW didn't just get mass market appeal overnight - they actually did it by giving gamers a very polished MMO. WoW players complain about bugs all the time, but really its small potatoes to what came before - and none of these bugs are what I'd call critical.
Oddly enough the one time I've seen data recovery done on a hdd was dept of forrestry research project at OSU - they had a laptop that was taken to South America to gather data - on the way back something happened and it no-longer read the data off the disk. They sent the drive off to ontrack to recover it because it was cheaper than going back down collect more data.
It was a good long while ago (120 meg hdd as I recall) and I'm leaving out a lot of details I know, but its a good example where backups are kind hard to do. This was back when having an internet connection was a novelty - granted they could have lugged around floppy disks I suppose.
With my brother - it was a tragedy for sure, but my advice would be to hire and retain a lawyer. You pretty much need one to sort out all the things he left behind anyhow since some debt collectors would love to have other family members pay off their debts.
I knew a guy who knew a german hacker who had every single combination of a 9 digit password stored on a bunch of disk drives.
He could supposedly recover any password off any file in a matter of hours.
Except there are HP Laserjets that sell for less than the toner cartridges that go into them (I've seen hp laserjets for like 250-300 dollars with cartridges that cost 150 a piece - and you need 4 of them). And a lot of these printers will only let you use the oem cartridges.
This whole ink mess isn't just about inkjets - it applies to laser printers too.
The irony being that OSX doesn't run all that well on Apple hardware either.
I usually don't see the UAC prompt unless I'm doing admin tasks like installing or changing system settings. I don't think this is a major problem.
In fact on my Mac I get the same kinds of prompts.
Learn 2 logo certify? Seriously - that would catch this.
Seriously - tell me how this is different than say - having the Mac elevation prompt pop up to install a rootkit that applications can call to bypass OSX security?
Sadly a lot of engineering decisions are made by marketing people and not engineers. Read Ralph Nader's book - unsafe at any speed. The engineers actually designed the car properly, but it was management who changed the design to cut costs at the safety of the car itself.
I had much dirtier thoughts - I'm thinking of a bunch of Bush whitehouse people hanging out on RP servers all day trying to chat up skirts.
Eh? If they have less money - they'll just spend more of what they don't have.
They are already spending more than they take in right now...
I like how you blame it on democrats too - Bush lowers taxes, but spends more than any democrat. Essentially what he's doing is deferring any really hard financial decisions to the next guy/girl in power. Its like a stealth raise in taxes because the more deficit spending that occurs the more worthless our dollar is.
Its still a defense contract though - which is similar.
Or the US Navy changes its contract for refueling planes from Boeing (a US company) to Airbus (a French company)?
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/mar2008/boei-m27.shtml
Viva la Vista. Oddly enough this is the one feature people really hate about Vista, but Microsoft did close a rather gaping hole - ie everyone running as admin.
Of course who cares about radio - thats so yesterday.
When Adobe as is all developers are told Carbon was going to have the same features are Cocoa - mainly to make it easy to transition from OS9 to OSX, and are told in 2006 that 64 bit Carbon was a promised feature, and Apple pulls support for 64 bit Carbon in 2007 that gives Adobe less than a year to react. I honestly don't see why Apple can't continue to develop it until OSX is eol'd.
In an already small product cycle (about 18 months to 2 years) that means essentially making a pretty significant design decision on a very big project midway through the product lifecycle - not 10 years ago.
Also Apple hasn't been saying "you're not supposed to be using Carbon anymore!" - if anything they encouraged developers by a) saying it was going to be feature equivalent to Cocoa and b) was going to have 64 bit support.
This 64bit issue is no one's fault except Adobe who have had nearly a decade's warning that they needed to move from Carbon to Cocoa.
:).
You make it sound like software development is so simple. Especially when everything on the Mac is a moving target. They change API's every patch and every OS version. I know in my own Mac development we spend most of our time QA'ing the existing code against every little thing Apple does to OSX. Maintaining code for Photoshop on X86, Intel 64 and 32 bit versions has to be a daunting task. I'll bet the spent most of this time this last couple years porting the product from code warrior to xcode - and I've heard from friends close to Adobe that they had a lot of problems with xcode handling such a large project. Little crap like that can severely delay development of a product feature on a platform.
Ultimately the user doesn't care - after all the OS is supposed to be transparent - and Apple certianly didn't make it easy on developers.
The fact that everyone is so pissed off at Adobe about this move shows they care deeply about the product though
Also - Aperature is no Photoshop killer - or even replacement.