To avoid all the problems with Vista, don't install Vista. Voila. Problem solved. It's like upgrading your OS every time Microsoft puts something new out is a disease that IT suffers from. There are companies who never upgraded NT 4 or 2000 who are doing just fine.
There is no system that is completely secure. I doubt there ever will be. AV companies will be more and more important on open source platforms as they become more prevalent. Hackers and virus writers will have more incentive to attack these systems. AV companies will continue to partner with companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable to deliver free AV to their customers. People who switch away from Microsoft will have need of quality commercial anti virus. Also, I wouldn't assume that a lot of people are going to switch to Vista. Most won't have the hardware for it for a few years at least.
It desn't matter if 100% of them are cheating. Breaking one rule doesn't allow another to violate copyright. The students own the copyright. You will never ever get any college to make a rule saying the student gives over copyright of their work. They will lose students in droves. Many of these students, especially the ones graduating will go on to use their work in College and possibly expand upon it to get their Masters and PHDs.
...bloggers. With words like blog, blogging and blogosphere, it is going to be a long hard road uphill before anyone takes them seriously. Every time I hear someone on television mention the word blog I cringe.
It's not easy to find good officers. It's not that easy to get officer's who can pass the psych tests and the physical tests. It is not easy to become a police officer. It's very easy to hire a teenager desperate for a job and it's no sweat off their ass if McDonald's fires you. It's nothing personal, you are just easily replaceable. That police officer on the other hand is not easily replaceable.
I've made fun of my fair share of EQ addicts but fact is I and many other people were or still are addicted to some MMORPG or another. I spent my 6 hours a day on EQ in the ol' days before I realized I was wasting my time and my life. I like your reference to e-penis btw. A few weeks ago I had this idea for starting a website called virtualpenis.com where you could show other people your virtual penis. Kind of a myspace like situation where people could vote your virtual penis larger or smaller. Then you could link to your virtual penis. Copyright Atroxodisse.
Fact is, I still spend some of my time surfing the web looking for 'the next big mmorpg'. I got hooked in Ultima Online but at some point that got old. Then there was EQ, DAoC and WoW, not to mention the beta tests and open betas of more than a dozen other games. They all offered basically the same gameplay, each adding more features, more reasons to keep playing. They all also offered interpersonal relationships, some of which I still have. I think thats what keeps me and others coming back to the game even when we've camped the same dungeon 500 times, killed the same mob 20000 times and randomed for our favorite loot too many times. I'm still looking for the perfect MMO. I think WoW's success is due to the fact that it's the least repetitive. It being Blizzard and it being the Warcraft franchise didn't hurt either.
I know they use to build(and may still) rocket nose cones out of pyrex but last I checked the lids were just tempered glass...and gravity was the only thing holding them on.
The point was that Intel is hyping the new processor for gaming but you really don't need the best processor for gaming. Might as well drop $180 on a good processor instead of $800 on the best because it won't make a difference.
I never played GTA: San Andreas. I got bored after the first 20 minutes of playing the original PC version of GTA. I don't imagine it's concept is a whole lot different than the original. I've seen it played and it just seems like a 3D 3rd person perspective of the same. Here's the thing that game developers have forgotten. Engaging characters and a story line. You have to hate some of the characters, you have to like some of the characters and you have to give a rats ass what happens to them. In the rush to create these immense virtual worlds(and I don't just mean 'urban' games but MMOGs as well) the designers have left out a cohesive story. The only thing that keeps people playing the MMOG after a while is the other players in it. GTA doesn't have other people in it to keep things fresh. There's only so many times you can steal someone's car and shoot a pedestrian before it becomes old hat.
You market the original title extremely well, then the rest is all gravy. If your game is good, gamers will flock to the next episodes until it gets bland. Regardless, he doesn't have a leg to stand on. He assumes by default that episodes won't be properly marketed. Whose to say a company can't market each episode well?
And what if my bacteria gets a virus and that virus becomes air borne and kills my cat and then all the cats in the neighbourhood start dieing. Then before you know it the virus mutates and starts infecting humans. End result, end of the world. I mean, it 'almost' happened lots of times before, like with SARS, West Nile and the bird flu. Right?
...further and declare that directors should not be allowed to edit their own movies after they've been released in order to maintain artistic integrity. Han shot first.
You must have gone to super crazy no way law school. Not even a police officer can search a child without cause. Schools like to make lots of rules but they are only that. They are not enforceable under the law. If you break the rules there are consequences, but only so far as the school holds authority over. They have very little real authority. This isn't the old days where a teacher could hit a kid with a ruler for misbehaving. Kids do not have a choice when it comes to attending school. In some states their parents can literally end up in jail if they do not attend.
I don't expect that ABC will ever get this to work. Not to mention, good luck getting anyone to surrender their old DVR box. You can't come to my house and take it. The cable networks would lose revenue from consumers who stop using DVR. The only advantage of DVR vs just buying a DVD Recorder for your tv is that you can setup season schedules to record the same show. If you take away my fast forwarding I will cancel my DVR and go out and drop $100 on a DVD recorder. I just might do that anyway.
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Exactly. It's not illegal. The company also has to mark the difference in stock value as an expense.
To avoid all the problems with Vista, don't install Vista. Voila. Problem solved. It's like upgrading your OS every time Microsoft puts something new out is a disease that IT suffers from. There are companies who never upgraded NT 4 or 2000 who are doing just fine.
There is no system that is completely secure. I doubt there ever will be. AV companies will be more and more important on open source platforms as they become more prevalent. Hackers and virus writers will have more incentive to attack these systems. AV companies will continue to partner with companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable to deliver free AV to their customers. People who switch away from Microsoft will have need of quality commercial anti virus. Also, I wouldn't assume that a lot of people are going to switch to Vista. Most won't have the hardware for it for a few years at least.
I like how they bundle open source stuff with their systems, Open Office, Thunderbird and firefox.
The best way to defeat BS is with more BS. Oh wait, I'm not a politician.
And then ninjas come and dig it up and use it to buy frisbees, swords, throwing stars and red bull.
...welcome our alien overlords.
It desn't matter if 100% of them are cheating. Breaking one rule doesn't allow another to violate copyright. The students own the copyright. You will never ever get any college to make a rule saying the student gives over copyright of their work. They will lose students in droves. Many of these students, especially the ones graduating will go on to use their work in College and possibly expand upon it to get their Masters and PHDs.
The only issue is if he has the right to take copyrighted material, the pictures he doctored, and post it on his website.
...when people try to apply to that field of study and get denied because it's not on the list.
...bloggers. With words like blog, blogging and blogosphere, it is going to be a long hard road uphill before anyone takes them seriously. Every time I hear someone on television mention the word blog I cringe.
It's not easy to find good officers. It's not that easy to get officer's who can pass the psych tests and the physical tests. It is not easy to become a police officer. It's very easy to hire a teenager desperate for a job and it's no sweat off their ass if McDonald's fires you. It's nothing personal, you are just easily replaceable. That police officer on the other hand is not easily replaceable.
Don't be surprised if the RIAA and MPAA get slapped with a Racketeering charge.
I've made fun of my fair share of EQ addicts but fact is I and many other people were or still are addicted to some MMORPG or another. I spent my 6 hours a day on EQ in the ol' days before I realized I was wasting my time and my life. I like your reference to e-penis btw. A few weeks ago I had this idea for starting a website called virtualpenis.com where you could show other people your virtual penis. Kind of a myspace like situation where people could vote your virtual penis larger or smaller. Then you could link to your virtual penis. Copyright Atroxodisse.
Fact is, I still spend some of my time surfing the web looking for 'the next big mmorpg'. I got hooked in Ultima Online but at some point that got old. Then there was EQ, DAoC and WoW, not to mention the beta tests and open betas of more than a dozen other games. They all offered basically the same gameplay, each adding more features, more reasons to keep playing. They all also offered interpersonal relationships, some of which I still have. I think thats what keeps me and others coming back to the game even when we've camped the same dungeon 500 times, killed the same mob 20000 times and randomed for our favorite loot too many times. I'm still looking for the perfect MMO. I think WoW's success is due to the fact that it's the least repetitive. It being Blizzard and it being the Warcraft franchise didn't hurt either.
I know they use to build(and may still) rocket nose cones out of pyrex but last I checked the lids were just tempered glass...and gravity was the only thing holding them on.
The point was that Intel is hyping the new processor for gaming but you really don't need the best processor for gaming. Might as well drop $180 on a good processor instead of $800 on the best because it won't make a difference.
Not if you ask hard OCP http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTE wOCwxLCxobmV3cw==/
I never played GTA: San Andreas. I got bored after the first 20 minutes of playing the original PC version of GTA. I don't imagine it's concept is a whole lot different than the original. I've seen it played and it just seems like a 3D 3rd person perspective of the same. Here's the thing that game developers have forgotten. Engaging characters and a story line. You have to hate some of the characters, you have to like some of the characters and you have to give a rats ass what happens to them. In the rush to create these immense virtual worlds(and I don't just mean 'urban' games but MMOGs as well) the designers have left out a cohesive story. The only thing that keeps people playing the MMOG after a while is the other players in it. GTA doesn't have other people in it to keep things fresh. There's only so many times you can steal someone's car and shoot a pedestrian before it becomes old hat.
You market the original title extremely well, then the rest is all gravy. If your game is good, gamers will flock to the next episodes until it gets bland. Regardless, he doesn't have a leg to stand on. He assumes by default that episodes won't be properly marketed. Whose to say a company can't market each episode well?
That's lame. Disney would totally steal my screenplay if that happened.
And what if my bacteria gets a virus and that virus becomes air borne and kills my cat and then all the cats in the neighbourhood start dieing. Then before you know it the virus mutates and starts infecting humans. End result, end of the world. I mean, it 'almost' happened lots of times before, like with SARS, West Nile and the bird flu. Right?
...further and declare that directors should not be allowed to edit their own movies after they've been released in order to maintain artistic integrity. Han shot first.
You must have gone to super crazy no way law school. Not even a police officer can search a child without cause. Schools like to make lots of rules but they are only that. They are not enforceable under the law. If you break the rules there are consequences, but only so far as the school holds authority over. They have very little real authority. This isn't the old days where a teacher could hit a kid with a ruler for misbehaving. Kids do not have a choice when it comes to attending school. In some states their parents can literally end up in jail if they do not attend.
I don't expect that ABC will ever get this to work. Not to mention, good luck getting anyone to surrender their old DVR box. You can't come to my house and take it. The cable networks would lose revenue from consumers who stop using DVR. The only advantage of DVR vs just buying a DVD Recorder for your tv is that you can setup season schedules to record the same show. If you take away my fast forwarding I will cancel my DVR and go out and drop $100 on a DVD recorder. I just might do that anyway.
This patent is idiotic. Even a basic message forum is a social network.