So 2 years from now when every DVD player out there has MS support and all the DVD rental places have been "convinced" by MS to only rent MS format DVD's, I'll be stuck with getting the Blue Screen of Death every time I try and enjoy a good movie by the fire... ugh
And join the rest of us here in the real world. Microsoft will never produce anything to take the "crown" away from Nintendo in the portable market. Also, GameCube, given 1 or maybe even 2 years to mature, will prove itself as the dominant game console. Anyone who's played the consoles knows this. Oh and no, playing PIKIMIN or whatever in a Wal-Mart doesn't count. I'm talking about comparing comparable games, like Madden or Crazy Taxi, both released on several systems.
This is just a brainstorm-produced idea, not based in reality, but imagine if Microsoft found some way to interface their portable not only with the Xbox, but also with PS2 and GCN? I think the best thing about the GBA is that if you go to a friend's house who has a GCN, you can just plug in as another controller with your portable. Imagine if MS's new device could plug into them all... it's not like the consoles don't already have 3rd party controllers...
It gives you a limitless selection of jobs in the technology industry along with every other industry. Comp E's are selected before CS, CIS, MSCS, and any other wannabe computer degree when it comes to getting a job.
If the government taps me accidentally instead of their intended target, and they discover me doing something that violates a law in a minor way, they are going to pursue getting a warrant so that they can use the information legitimately next time it happens. Point is they didn't have the right to tap me in the first place.
Well, in that case, the charges they bring against you will be dropped (assuming your lawyer is decent) because of exactly what you said: they didn't have the right to tap you in the first place. Then you can sue them for your time.
Whoa there... no apple offense intended. I've always been a "Mac Lover" as we're labeled. I just meant that not too long ago you couldn't get Mac functionality unless you had all Mac hardware, and according to the "industry experts" that caused them to only have a 20% share in the market or so, unlike PC's, many different types of which, that had the remaining 80%. I don't know how things stand today, I was just trying to make a comparison in general.
The point was that if you want to play a PS2 game you have to buy the console from Sony. Same goes for Xbox. Now you can play games on a Nintendo product and a Panasonic product. I was simply taking a hypothetical next step, comparing that situation to a Dell, Gateway, Compaq, etc PC. Will you ever have a Dell, Gateway, XYZ, device with GameCube functionality? This could apply to PC's, Macs even, TV's, Set Top Boxes, DVD players, etc, etc.
Does this mean that Nintendo is allowing "clones" of their hardware so that any 3rd party that wants to include GameCube functionality can pay them some royalties and BAM, now your TV has a built in GameCube (or something similar)??
I'm ignorant as to the Nintendo-Panasonic relationship and I don't know anything about their hardware licensing but if they are planning on letting 3rd parties have access to it, they might be onto a really good idea. I know it's a completely different situation, but remember how Macintosh used to keep everything Mac, no 3rd party, but PC's were all about the 3rd party? Well we see how that turned out...
Well, you all are missing my point. I know there's better ways to implement a backdoor, and I know that the Microsoft problem was completely different, but it had the same end result, someone could remotely control another person's computer. Yeah, exploiting a buffer overflow isn't the prettiest way to do it, but I wasn't trying to get into the details of the matter, just the premise that companies might intentionally do something like that on purpose.
Or at least they were the first to have this bug uncovered.
On a serious note, is it being ultra-paranoid to think that maybe these companies are including these holes intentionally? To me it seems like a pretty huge mistake to allow a random person to take over control of a computer remotely, not just a small oversight. AOL and MS aren't exactly angels, and maybe I've been watching too many movies, but this seems like something they put in by design in order to spy on certain individuals for stealing code, deleting components of non-MS software so it won't work, etc.
Companies do it all the time, but when you hire someone who used to work for a competitor for the sole purpose of their ability to expose all of the confidential information about their previous employer, that's illegal.
It also appears that MS has bought off a number of Linux/Sun 'insiders' whose job it will be to explain to the sales team how to pitch the illusory advantages of Windows to unsuspecting IT managers
Exposing confidential corporation information is a crime the last time I checked.
But it's to be expected from MS. It sounds like they are performing illegally with their Linux Insiders, but the email was short on details of who those people actually are, so we can't make any accusations. The main point of us all knowing about this is so we keep pressure on the justice department to go after these guys. Business has never been a perfect enterprise, but the legal system has at least attempted to make things right in the past, they need to step it up right now and do something about Microsoft.
On a related note, something I find funny is the propoganda retailers are using to push PCs and XP. I was PC shopping with my Mom over the holidays and had a nice little chuckle when one of the teenage haxor wannabe pimple faced sales reps said to my Mom "well, you should buy a PC with Windows XP, not ME, because within a year everything will be XP and you won't be able to use the computer without it." That's great... I mean it really, really is. I laugh every time I think about it. But anyway, the point is this kind of propoganda is to be expected, and you hate to see it in the business to business world, but it's old news, just think about car mechanics...
The point isn't that they shouldn't fight, I mean that's what businesses do, we all know that. The point is that yet again Microsoft doesn't fight fair, and they have illegal practices.
Upgrade to a pentium? Please. I don't care what the clock speeds are, it could be a million to one in favor of Pentium, going from a Motorola chip to a Pentium is no upgrade.
Does the FCC have a problem with a person amplifying their wireless network without some sort of license? I'm totally ignorant on the legalities of this, but it seems like a really cool tip for free amplification!
Could they be doing this on purpose?
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Seriously, when your copy of XP gets permission from you to install the patch, I wonder what else is going on? I bet stuff like this will keep happening every few months and people will keep installing these automatic drizzle downloads, and the whole time Microsoft is just raking in loads of personal information from your documents in... well... "My Documents."
Haha, that's funny. I was actually pointing that way when I said that, I was really suprised by the popularity of those things when they first came out a few years back.
Guys, come on, seriously... a video game channel? A channel about video games? Look, if you're going to vegetate in front of the TV, do it PLAYING the video game OR watching TV. It just sounds absurd to watch a TV show about playing video games... that's like watching a fireplace or fishtank on TV, who would ever do such a thing? (sarcasm)
On a serious note, I just can't see how something like this wouldn't become just one big infomercial. Maybe Comedy Central could follow BattleBots with some video game competition show, but I fail to see how an entire channel could come up with programming that would not only attract viewers but also attract advertisers. Of course, I'm no creative genius, so go figure.
Extensively. That's why I bought the GCN. A gameboy was great for it's time, very small and is still popular to this day. The GCN is great for it's time, and will be popular for a long time. Of course, you're probably one of those people that thinks a 700 Mhz Pentium is faster than a 500 Mhs PPC, so I'm really talking to a wall here.
Actually, the GCN sells for $200 mainly because they didn't add DVD playing functionality to it, which is fine by me, and the funny thing is they actually turn a profit on their consoles.
How about YOU play both. I don't mean play Pikimin on GCN then Halo on Xbox. Play something like Madden 2002 that is available for both. Or talk to people and find out what the best game is for each one, then compare objectively. I played Halo a good bit and Star Wars(GCN) a good bit. That was the main thing that finalized my GCN decision.
OK, so my knowledge of these matters comes mostly from articles on \. and discovery channel programming, and I'm not an expert, but I don't think this statement is exactly right:
rendering useless the old notion of a narrow "habitable zone" in solar systems, outside of which life cannot exist.
From my limited information on this subject, I've understood that the habitable zone is used in the context of planet forming and that the reason behind certain planets having certain compositions is their position in the solar system, mainly distance from the sun, while they were forming. Therefore the habitable zone is the area where if a planet forms there it will likely have the characteristics of a planet capable of sustaining life as we know it. The article suggests that the habitable zone only refers to an area that can sustain life now that all the planets are here, which is really only descriptive of human life and not other, unknown organisms (or possibly known like the microorganisms discussed in the article.)
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So 2 years from now when every DVD player out there has MS support and all the DVD rental places have been "convinced" by MS to only rent MS format DVD's, I'll be stuck with getting the Blue Screen of Death every time I try and enjoy a good movie by the fire... ugh
And join the rest of us here in the real world. Microsoft will never produce anything to take the "crown" away from Nintendo in the portable market. Also, GameCube, given 1 or maybe even 2 years to mature, will prove itself as the dominant game console. Anyone who's played the consoles knows this. Oh and no, playing PIKIMIN or whatever in a Wal-Mart doesn't count. I'm talking about comparing comparable games, like Madden or Crazy Taxi, both released on several systems.
This is just a brainstorm-produced idea, not based in reality, but imagine if Microsoft found some way to interface their portable not only with the Xbox, but also with PS2 and GCN? I think the best thing about the GBA is that if you go to a friend's house who has a GCN, you can just plug in as another controller with your portable. Imagine if MS's new device could plug into them all... it's not like the consoles don't already have 3rd party controllers...
It gives you a limitless selection of jobs in the technology industry along with every other industry. Comp E's are selected before CS, CIS, MSCS, and any other wannabe computer degree when it comes to getting a job.
If the government taps me accidentally instead of their intended target, and they discover me doing something that violates a law in a minor way, they are going to pursue getting a warrant so that they can use the information legitimately next time it happens. Point is they didn't have the right to tap me in the first place.
Well, in that case, the charges they bring against you will be dropped (assuming your lawyer is decent) because of exactly what you said: they didn't have the right to tap you in the first place. Then you can sue them for your time.
Whoa there... no apple offense intended. I've always been a "Mac Lover" as we're labeled. I just meant that not too long ago you couldn't get Mac functionality unless you had all Mac hardware, and according to the "industry experts" that caused them to only have a 20% share in the market or so, unlike PC's, many different types of which, that had the remaining 80%. I don't know how things stand today, I was just trying to make a comparison in general.
The point was that if you want to play a PS2 game you have to buy the console from Sony. Same goes for Xbox. Now you can play games on a Nintendo product and a Panasonic product. I was simply taking a hypothetical next step, comparing that situation to a Dell, Gateway, Compaq, etc PC. Will you ever have a Dell, Gateway, XYZ, device with GameCube functionality? This could apply to PC's, Macs even, TV's, Set Top Boxes, DVD players, etc, etc.
Does this mean that Nintendo is allowing "clones" of their hardware so that any 3rd party that wants to include GameCube functionality can pay them some royalties and BAM, now your TV has a built in GameCube (or something similar)??
I'm ignorant as to the Nintendo-Panasonic relationship and I don't know anything about their hardware licensing but if they are planning on letting 3rd parties have access to it, they might be onto a really good idea. I know it's a completely different situation, but remember how Macintosh used to keep everything Mac, no 3rd party, but PC's were all about the 3rd party? Well we see how that turned out...
Where are the release notes? How do I learn all the details?
Well, you all are missing my point. I know there's better ways to implement a backdoor, and I know that the Microsoft problem was completely different, but it had the same end result, someone could remotely control another person's computer. Yeah, exploiting a buffer overflow isn't the prettiest way to do it, but I wasn't trying to get into the details of the matter, just the premise that companies might intentionally do something like that on purpose.
Wish I had some mod points. I've never heard of trillian before but I'm going to try it out!
Or at least they were the first to have this bug uncovered.
On a serious note, is it being ultra-paranoid to think that maybe these companies are including these holes intentionally? To me it seems like a pretty huge mistake to allow a random person to take over control of a computer remotely, not just a small oversight. AOL and MS aren't exactly angels, and maybe I've been watching too many movies, but this seems like something they put in by design in order to spy on certain individuals for stealing code, deleting components of non-MS software so it won't work, etc.
Companies do it all the time, but when you hire someone who used to work for a competitor for the sole purpose of their ability to expose all of the confidential information about their previous employer, that's illegal.
It also appears that MS has bought off a number of Linux/Sun 'insiders' whose job it will be to explain to the sales team how to pitch the illusory advantages of Windows to unsuspecting IT managers
Exposing confidential corporation information is a crime the last time I checked.
But it's to be expected from MS. It sounds like they are performing illegally with their Linux Insiders, but the email was short on details of who those people actually are, so we can't make any accusations. The main point of us all knowing about this is so we keep pressure on the justice department to go after these guys. Business has never been a perfect enterprise, but the legal system has at least attempted to make things right in the past, they need to step it up right now and do something about Microsoft.
On a related note, something I find funny is the propoganda retailers are using to push PCs and XP. I was PC shopping with my Mom over the holidays and had a nice little chuckle when one of the teenage haxor wannabe pimple faced sales reps said to my Mom "well, you should buy a PC with Windows XP, not ME, because within a year everything will be XP and you won't be able to use the computer without it." That's great... I mean it really, really is. I laugh every time I think about it. But anyway, the point is this kind of propoganda is to be expected, and you hate to see it in the business to business world, but it's old news, just think about car mechanics...
The point isn't that they shouldn't fight, I mean that's what businesses do, we all know that. The point is that yet again Microsoft doesn't fight fair, and they have illegal practices.
Upgrade to a pentium? Please. I don't care what the clock speeds are, it could be a million to one in favor of Pentium, going from a Motorola chip to a Pentium is no upgrade.
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This is the work of pure genius.
Does the FCC have a problem with a person amplifying their wireless network without some sort of license? I'm totally ignorant on the legalities of this, but it seems like a really cool tip for free amplification!
... it's a Metroid!!!! Aaaahhhhhhhhh!
10 arms? I only saw 6... am I blind or something?
Seriously, when your copy of XP gets permission from you to install the patch, I wonder what else is going on? I bet stuff like this will keep happening every few months and people will keep installing these automatic drizzle downloads, and the whole time Microsoft is just raking in loads of personal information from your documents in... well... "My Documents."
Haha, that's funny. I was actually pointing that way when I said that, I was really suprised by the popularity of those things when they first came out a few years back.
Guys, come on, seriously... a video game channel? A channel about video games? Look, if you're going to vegetate in front of the TV, do it PLAYING the video game OR watching TV. It just sounds absurd to watch a TV show about playing video games... that's like watching a fireplace or fishtank on TV, who would ever do such a thing? (sarcasm)
On a serious note, I just can't see how something like this wouldn't become just one big infomercial. Maybe Comedy Central could follow BattleBots with some video game competition show, but I fail to see how an entire channel could come up with programming that would not only attract viewers but also attract advertisers. Of course, I'm no creative genius, so go figure.
Extensively. That's why I bought the GCN. A gameboy was great for it's time, very small and is still popular to this day. The GCN is great for it's time, and will be popular for a long time. Of course, you're probably one of those people that thinks a 700 Mhz Pentium is faster than a 500 Mhs PPC, so I'm really talking to a wall here.
Actually, the GCN sells for $200 mainly because they didn't add DVD playing functionality to it, which is fine by me, and the funny thing is they actually turn a profit on their consoles.
How about YOU play both. I don't mean play Pikimin on GCN then Halo on Xbox. Play something like Madden 2002 that is available for both. Or talk to people and find out what the best game is for each one, then compare objectively. I played Halo a good bit and Star Wars(GCN) a good bit. That was the main thing that finalized my GCN decision.
OK, so my knowledge of these matters comes mostly from articles on \. and discovery channel programming, and I'm not an expert, but I don't think this statement is exactly right:
rendering useless the old notion of a narrow "habitable zone" in solar systems, outside of which life cannot exist.
From my limited information on this subject, I've understood that the habitable zone is used in the context of planet forming and that the reason behind certain planets having certain compositions is their position in the solar system, mainly distance from the sun, while they were forming. Therefore the habitable zone is the area where if a planet forms there it will likely have the characteristics of a planet capable of sustaining life as we know it. The article suggests that the habitable zone only refers to an area that can sustain life now that all the planets are here, which is really only descriptive of human life and not other, unknown organisms (or possibly known like the microorganisms discussed in the article.)