Interestingly, they really didn't meet any of the conditions you stated!
A couple of bits from the first link:
The passage in the Defcon show guide describing their talk begins, "Want free subway rides for life?" That line was removed from the description of the talk posted at the Defcon Web site.
Can't see that as not causing trouble (at least from the MBTA's perspective...)
The researchers refused to give the transit authority information about security flaws in its system ahead of the talk, the filings state.
Which is not particularly polite - and in fact definitely takes them out of any resonable definition of "White Hat"...
And while hacking around on a smartcard they bought shouldn't be illegal (as long as they don't actually use it for free rides), this bit:
They say they were able to access fiber switches connecting fare vending machines to the unlocked network
is the kind of thing that gets people under said house arrest...
To be honest, these guys were pretty lucky for the way this whole thing turned out. They freely admitted in their published talk that they illegally accessed a gov't network and planned on explaining how to get "free subway rides" to a room full of hackers without revealing how to the gov't organization about to get screwed over... at the very least they could have expected a protracted court case that made their life hell for the next couple years...
You are just digging yourself deeper with every ignorant post you make.
Who the hell cares what a demo artist or your friend uses. The "bigtime" (your word) studios have clear separations of software and personnel for modelling, animation, and rendering (etc). Some of these steps, especially rendering of late, is done on Linux-based server farms, but a LOT of work is still done on Macs with both commercial and proprietary software.
To your Pixar example... DUUH! Steve Jobs is Chairman of both Apple and Pixar, and trust me, he makes sure Macs do and always will have a significant presence there.
Hah, they wish - "deli" is short for delicatessen which is derived from "delicacies". Nothing about this remotely resembles anything that could ever even loosely be defined as "deli".
Weird thing to me is one of the inventors is from the town I grew up in (which is a bit surprising since it's a reasonably small town of 25,000 in IL). They gave his full address in the patent... so next time I'm back there I have to remember to put some "deli condiments" in his mailbox.
I wish I had mod points so I could give the mod the OP funny and you insightful - I can't BELIEVE all those replies and you were the only one to notice the sig. All the other replies are SC2 fan POSEURS!
Wow, you don't get to pick and choose the details of what you believe to be called "Christian"?
Tell that to the Catholics, the Lutherans, the Presbyterians, the Baptists, the Evangelicals, the Pentecostals, the Quakers, the Adventists, the Methodists, the Greek Orthodox, the Mennonites, etc...
Then again, your reference to a typical predominantly black church in Chicago being "not exactly what normal people would call Christian" pretty much demonstrates your sect of Christianity is one of those that wear the white sheets, huh?
I played outside once. And while it was kinda pretty, I closed the door and stayed inside when I was unable to jump over an obstacle that didn't even reach my knees.
For one, glossy screens are easier to clean. With laptops, it's somewhat inevitable that the screen will get fingerprints on it. With a matte screen, you need a specific wipe/spray to clean. My glossy display cleans easily with a damp paper towel
Which is more than offset by the fact you get one print on a glossy screen and it looks like someone was playing with fingerpaint on it - with my matte screen sometimes I'm amazed with how much gunk builds up before i notice it...
Glossy screens also showcase vibrant colors better than matte screens. This is probably why so many manufacturers are pushing glossy...under the right conditions, stuff just looks better on a glossy screen.
In the same way Best Buy and/or TV manufacturers turn up the color temperature to absurdly high levels, because the average half-blind consumer has never seen a properly calibrated TV. If I want everyone on my TV to look white I just change the channel to Fox News...
And having used one for the past year, the glare issue is really a red herring. I don't notice it. In fact I find the glossy screens more usable in sunlight conditions since they appear brighter than the matte. I actually find it really hard to believe your statement, "every end user I support hates the things"
In your opinion - but then again you have obviously already imbibed the Apple koolaid of "make the customer adjust to you, not you to the customer".
I imagine that Blizzard does in fact employ people capable of multiplying some number by a million and getting an accurate result, not just an estimate. You should have gone with a billion, or some other number that defies calculation.
I would hope if they are capable of multiplying by a million, they can just as easily multiply by a billion (the employee counting their WoW profits would be a good candidate).
If you wanted to use use a number that defies calculation, maybe you should have suggested "a gazillion". Or how about just "a shitload"?
How is this an insightful post? Honestly it would have ALMOST had a point if the examples weren't COMPLETELY incorrect.
1) the used game market is about 98% used CONSOLE games. The only way that they can even enforce this on a console game is when the console has an online component like XBox Live. XBox Live stores your account information on their servers, so if your XBox dies, you can restore your bonus "stuff" on the new console.
2) MMORPGs are an even worse example. Both of your points are wrong. a) Everything is server-based, so there is no issue with duping limited items for players who reinstall on a new computer and log into their existing account. b) Sure, you may be able to get the game free and sign up for a monthly subscription. Which is the whole point of this article - if you pay for the game/expansion/whatever when it comes out, they give you a one-time activation code for the bonus "stuff".
I don't see the problem. All we need to do is develop a cheap, efficient form of fusion to create the exotic elements we need so that we can produce these solar cells to provide a new source of cheap, efficient energy.
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If you manage to use the idiotically bogus cellular industry "terms" 2.75G, 3G, and 3.5G in the same post, then you win the AT&T schill bonus prize!
How can anything in Michigan be removed from the Queen's English?
Oh, come on, everyone knows that upper Michigan has been part of Canada for years.
Interestingly, they really didn't meet any of the conditions you stated!
A couple of bits from the first link:
The passage in the Defcon show guide describing their talk begins, "Want free subway rides for life?" That line was removed from the description of the talk posted at the Defcon Web site.
Can't see that as not causing trouble (at least from the MBTA's perspective...)
The researchers refused to give the transit authority information about security flaws in its system ahead of the talk, the filings state.
Which is not particularly polite - and in fact definitely takes them out of any resonable definition of "White Hat"...
And while hacking around on a smartcard they bought shouldn't be illegal (as long as they don't actually use it for free rides), this bit:
They say they were able to access fiber switches connecting fare vending machines to the unlocked network
is the kind of thing that gets people under said house arrest...
To be honest, these guys were pretty lucky for the way this whole thing turned out. They freely admitted in their published talk that they illegally accessed a gov't network and planned on explaining how to get "free subway rides" to a room full of hackers without revealing how to the gov't organization about to get screwed over... at the very least they could have expected a protracted court case that made their life hell for the next couple years...
Whatever the case, just remember that you're there to serve programmers...
I guess that's why they're seasoned.
You are just digging yourself deeper with every ignorant post you make.
Who the hell cares what a demo artist or your friend uses. The "bigtime" (your word) studios have clear separations of software and personnel for modelling, animation, and rendering (etc). Some of these steps, especially rendering of late, is done on Linux-based server farms, but a LOT of work is still done on Macs with both commercial and proprietary software.
To your Pixar example... DUUH! Steve Jobs is Chairman of both Apple and Pixar, and trust me, he makes sure Macs do and always will have a significant presence there.
http://homepage.mac.com/lyford/4umsf/asteroids.jpg
Hah, they wish - "deli" is short for delicatessen which is derived from "delicacies". Nothing about this remotely resembles anything that could ever even loosely be defined as "deli".
Weird thing to me is one of the inventors is from the town I grew up in (which is a bit surprising since it's a reasonably small town of 25,000 in IL). They gave his full address in the patent... so next time I'm back there I have to remember to put some "deli condiments" in his mailbox.
Wow, I can TOTALLY relate. I didn't like having legs, so I got them removed. Amazing difference it makes with parking spaces.
Then, I decided I really didn't like having a stomach, so I got that removed, too. Lost more weight than any diet!
Though I'm thinking now the last two decisions I made were probably pretty stupid, so maybe next I'll get my brain removed...
You are officially the /. good citizen for the day ;)
I wish I had mod points so I could give the mod the OP funny and you insightful - I can't BELIEVE all those replies and you were the only one to notice the sig. All the other replies are SC2 fan POSEURS!
An IQ of 100 is the 50th percentile. You have exactly half the world stupider than you, and half the world smarter than you.
Correction: what it means is half the world scores worse than you on some random test, and half the world scores better.
Persecuted? Is bribery now a form of heresy?
...my AT&T DSL service is so slow I don't think I could reach those caps anyway.
Wow, you don't get to pick and choose the details of what you believe to be called "Christian"?
Tell that to the Catholics, the Lutherans, the Presbyterians, the Baptists, the Evangelicals, the Pentecostals, the Quakers, the Adventists, the Methodists, the Greek Orthodox, the Mennonites, etc...
Then again, your reference to a typical predominantly black church in Chicago being "not exactly what normal people would call Christian" pretty much demonstrates your sect of Christianity is one of those that wear the white sheets, huh?
Geek translation:
I played outside once. And while it was kinda pretty, I closed the door and stayed inside when I was unable to jump over an obstacle that didn't even reach my knees.
Since I guess she mistook her supporters for "deer in the headlights"...
Collider? I barely know her!
For one, glossy screens are easier to clean. With laptops, it's somewhat inevitable that the screen will get fingerprints on it. With a matte screen, you need a specific wipe/spray to clean. My glossy display cleans easily with a damp paper towel
Which is more than offset by the fact you get one print on a glossy screen and it looks like someone was playing with fingerpaint on it - with my matte screen sometimes I'm amazed with how much gunk builds up before i notice it...
Glossy screens also showcase vibrant colors better than matte screens. This is probably why so many manufacturers are pushing glossy...under the right conditions, stuff just looks better on a glossy screen.
In the same way Best Buy and/or TV manufacturers turn up the color temperature to absurdly high levels, because the average half-blind consumer has never seen a properly calibrated TV. If I want everyone on my TV to look white I just change the channel to Fox News...
And having used one for the past year, the glare issue is really a red herring. I don't notice it. In fact I find the glossy screens more usable in sunlight conditions since they appear brighter than the matte. I actually find it really hard to believe your statement, "every end user I support hates the things"
In your opinion - but then again you have obviously already imbibed the Apple koolaid of "make the customer adjust to you, not you to the customer".
I imagine that Blizzard does in fact employ people capable of multiplying some number by a million and getting an accurate result, not just an estimate. You should have gone with a billion, or some other number that defies calculation.
I would hope if they are capable of multiplying by a million, they can just as easily multiply by a billion (the employee counting their WoW profits would be a good candidate).
If you wanted to use use a number that defies calculation, maybe you should have suggested "a gazillion". Or how about just "a shitload"?
How is this an insightful post? Honestly it would have ALMOST had a point if the examples weren't COMPLETELY incorrect.
1) the used game market is about 98% used CONSOLE games. The only way that they can even enforce this on a console game is when the console has an online component like XBox Live. XBox Live stores your account information on their servers, so if your XBox dies, you can restore your bonus "stuff" on the new console.
2) MMORPGs are an even worse example. Both of your points are wrong. a) Everything is server-based, so there is no issue with duping limited items for players who reinstall on a new computer and log into their existing account. b) Sure, you may be able to get the game free and sign up for a monthly subscription. Which is the whole point of this article - if you pay for the game/expansion/whatever when it comes out, they give you a one-time activation code for the bonus "stuff".
I don't see the problem. All we need to do is develop a cheap, efficient form of fusion to create the exotic elements we need so that we can produce these solar cells to provide a new source of cheap, efficient energy.
Oh wait, nevermind. That was just the Chinese government posting it a day before it happened...
Mmmm. I knew there was a reason I crrrave it fortnightly!
Especially since their suggestion for acting suspicious was to wear a top hat, fake moustache, and black cape.
Well, it seems to work pretty damn well for an idiotic question like "can you tell me the most popular sites for learning about X language?"
Oh no, you may have to try up to *3* links to find the site you prefer! I'm stumped, better post a question on /.!