do i know that openme.doc.scr is probably a virus? yes.
do the users know that openme.doc.scr is more likely to be a virus than flowerbox.scr? no. why? because they don't give a crap about their computers. they want to get their work done, done scroll through every possible.exe or.scr file on their machines to see which ones may or may not be a virus.
if it says "This is a virus, kill it" then you have a prayer. if it says "This might be a virus, but then again you have hundreds of files on your machine just like it that aren't viruses, so you figure it out".
This sucker ripped through our campus like nothing. Heuristics missed it, and the definitions weren't updated until a few hours after a few hundred machines got nailed.
the annoying part is that as complex as you can make software, you can't fix the people who are morons, which is where the real problem lies.
What the hell. Reading over their tech specs it flat out says that the device has 16MB of storage, brags about it in fact. Right up until you click on the little number after that factoid to see it only has 13MB of storage. THEN SAY IT HAS 13! Is it that hard to just tell the damn truth?
they have what, 3% marketshare? maybe 5% tops? how the hell would they make money selling to 3-5% of the market.
you can't put the evil borg logo on every computer vendor. there are some things that require a huge market share before they'll work, that would be one of them.
i work at a huge college, and we've had a variety of meetings about this. although they'd love to just shut down filesharing for a variety of network traffic reasons, the legal reasons aren't as cut and dried as it may seem.
unlike a workplace, a college dorm is NOT just a room in a building with a network jack.
it also happens to be someone's residence. there are severe restrictions on what you can and can't do/listen to at someone's "home" per se.
this lawsuit may not be as cut and dried as the RIAA is hoping for. my guess is scare tactic and this will just settle out of court with the schools paying a pile of monet to the RIAA.
stupid ass RIAA is going to end up having to live off their lawsuits though, seeing as this will just drive cd sales down even further.
Tobacco companies had lables that would be right up their ally here.
cigarettes have to warn smokers about the bad side effects of their product and use.
crippled CD's should as well.
if this thing is going to go into my machine and force me to physically open the drive to get it back out, i want to know.
if the songs have mistakes burned on to them on purpose to ruin ripping, i wanna see a label.
we have a label to warn parents if the cd says "fuck" somewhere, i want one that tells me if it's been fucked.
well, sounds to me like Apple is slacking off then. i mean, WinXP has already released DOZENS of megs of security patches. come on Apple, get off your can. only two updates.
After actually READING the reviews, i just wanted to post a few comments.
first, (as i type this on a G4 PB) it looks like Intel has done a great job with these chips. those battery life stats were just marketing fluff, looks like they're real. (although the 7 hour IBM had a "special" order battery with it that stuck out an inch from the back).
it's good to see the Windows world get some laptops that are actually focusing on what makes a laptop worthwhile, weight and battery life. the alienware machines are OK i guess, but suck as a true laptop IMO.
in any case, these chips look like a real improvement to both performance and to the Intel mindset. i'm happy to see them start working towards real world benefits in their chips over marketing hype and lame numbers games.
i wonder if it's a mapping thing. i know someone else who's stationed in the Middle East right now doing similar work who's also using a Mac to do it, although he had to purchase it himself.
there's a Mac presence within the Army, which can't be a bad thing.
"now, drop the little bomb icon on the little tank icon and they blow up"
and this just in, Marketing drones mistakenly promote their products abilities beyond the realm of reality.
i'm not buying that they had hours of notice until i see something on the subject a little more trustworthy than a marketing release designed to sell a product.
you're all reacting like that's actually the truth.
Um, yeah, just put your e-mail address here on this "special" list, and I swear I'll send them to the state for the do not mail list.
Oh, and you may receive a few notices as to other great products we offer, such as appendage enlargement, ways to meet women, and wonderful investment opportunities.
1. Before 7:53am, everything was nominal. 2. ~7:53am, portside hydraulic sensors went offline. 3. ~7:56am, portside elevator and aileron temperature sensors went offline. 4. ~7:58am, portside landing gear pressure and temperature sensors went offline. 5. ~8:00am, crew confirms portside landing gear sensor problems. 6. ~8:00am, all communication went offline.
If together the two groups and help eachother out, that seems wonderful to me. Not every business in the same market has to be working to destroy all others. Often times a symbiotic relationship will be more beneficial than a destructive one.
At this point they have 90% of the market to shoot for. There's plenty of room for both to grow together while taking most of their customers away from MS.
More marketshare means more apps. It also means that technologies like OpenGL just might survive and keey DirectX from taking over the gaming world.
Just think, standards that are standard. Programs designed to run on multiple platforms. Sharing ideas rather than secreting them away.
The MOO series is probably one of the best strategy series of all time.
it is constantly recommened by long time gamers who have experienced the joy that was MOO1 and MOO2. to put it in perspective, it is the sole reason i keep a DOS machine around, just to play this one stupid game.:)
and it's not just the fans, game sites constantly wax nostalgic about the MOO series as seen here
the third title, which is close to Gold at this point looks to be another great game in a great series, although it's not going to have the best graphics ever, it will likely have excellent game play, if it's anything like its predecessors.
don't let the anemic review above be your sole example of MOO3, there are lots of better ones around (although i don't have links on-hand)
i've been talking with someone who's had inside inf before, including the LCD iMac info, and the god awful flower power macs.
this looks like it's true. as long as it's only upgrades you pay for, i don't see that it's that big of a deal. get a new machine and you get the new software for free anyway, that's pretty much how it is now.
maybe if they can make money off it they'll update iMovie and iPhoto, both need it badly.
At this point that's really too bad that someone is selling technology to China that blocks out websites, but does this really surprise anyone?
They're filtering the internet. It happens in libraries and schools in the U.S. all the time. In this case it's nation wide, but it's not as if the Chinese governemnt wouldn't have something to filter the internet in place if Sun, MS and Cisco weren't selling the stuff.
One could argue that China is better off with some filtering but access to the internet rather than no filtering and no 'net access. Sure, they block a lot of sites, but I'm willing to bet they don't get them all. Add on to that the fact that people are probably working just as hard coming up with ways to get around the filters.
This is a classic example of information wanting to be free, and it will be. Anything they have in place to block information will fall short. The filtering technology WILL fail, and then billions of people will have acess to the 'net. If the Chinese govt. wants to spend millions on technology from U.S. companies, that's fine by me.
there is only so much time you can spend developing a game. eventually you have to publish it. this is dictated mainly by console life and the fact that if you spend years in development, what was groundbreaking in the beginning is blase when it publishes.
so say you have 2 years to create your game. rule #1 at this point. can't have a great game unless it looks great. so better get working on those graphics. and it better have some nice movies. this that and the other, and eventually gameplay gets tossed in there as well.
now look back 10 years to the original nintendo. (best gaming platform even IMO)
your main character is 12 pixels. the enemy is 10 pixels. you have midi sound. no cut scenes.
the same time frame now has almost no costs associated with graphics and sound, so more time and effort can be pourted into GAMEPLAY. for FUCK'S sake, get me gameplay!
some of my favorite games look like ass but are tons of fun. and isn't that really the point?
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when all is said and done, weren't the problems actually legitimate stumbling blocks for Ginger?
people haven't bought them, they were overpriced, and they don't look that impressive.
it's a $X,000 scooter, at least that's what it looks like.
a Viper is just another really big engine, but put it in the right body....
For an example, check out Meddle from Pink Floyd. The entire CD is $12.99, yet it only contains 5 songs. (6 maybe?)
However, Echoes, the last song, is over 20 minutes long.
There's your answer.
actually our users don't use outlook, but will be more than happy to click on random attachments. go figure.
do i know that openme.doc.scr is probably a virus? yes.
.exe or .scr file on their machines to see which ones may or may not be a virus.
do the users know that openme.doc.scr is more likely to be a virus than flowerbox.scr? no. why? because they don't give a crap about their computers. they want to get their work done, done scroll through every possible
if it says "This is a virus, kill it" then you have a prayer. if it says "This might be a virus, but then again you have hundreds of files on your machine just like it that aren't viruses, so you figure it out".
guess what, user goes Huh....?!? and moves on.
This sucker ripped through our campus like nothing. Heuristics missed it, and the definitions weren't updated until a few hours after a few hundred machines got nailed.
the annoying part is that as complex as you can make software, you can't fix the people who are morons, which is where the real problem lies.
oh well.
gotta cover your ass, can't be too careful.
PFY gets his hands on a new AMD processor and decides he wants to clock it 2x past where it was ever supposed to run and it dies....
they're supposed to replace that?
nah, they cover their butts by saying that you should only use one heatsink and one thermal paste.
anyone with half a brain could clean off their thermal compound anyway, so who's to know?
if you're to stupid to clean off your proc. after your overclock it, well then you should probably be using the default heatsink.
kind of like when people ask how to enable root. if you need to ask, you shouldn't use it.
What the hell. Reading over their tech specs it flat out says that the device has 16MB of storage, brags about it in fact. Right up until you click on the little number after that factoid to see it only has 13MB of storage. THEN SAY IT HAS 13! Is it that hard to just tell the damn truth?
because i can think.
they have what, 3% marketshare? maybe 5% tops? how the hell would they make money selling to 3-5% of the market.
you can't put the evil borg logo on every computer vendor. there are some things that require a huge market share before they'll work, that would be one of them.
Could this be a step towards one record lable that won't be total asses about copyright and ripping your songs to mp3 format?
;)
well, that or suddenly all Universal CD's will come out looking way better than every other CD on the market, but only have songs a few years old.
i work at a huge college, and we've had a variety of meetings about this. although they'd love to just shut down filesharing for a variety of network traffic reasons, the legal reasons aren't as cut and dried as it may seem.
unlike a workplace, a college dorm is NOT just a room in a building with a network jack.
it also happens to be someone's residence. there are severe restrictions on what you can and can't do/listen to at someone's "home" per se.
this lawsuit may not be as cut and dried as the RIAA is hoping for. my guess is scare tactic and this will just settle out of court with the schools paying a pile of monet to the RIAA.
stupid ass RIAA is going to end up having to live off their lawsuits though, seeing as this will just drive cd sales down even further.
retards.
crippled CD's should as well.
if this thing is going to go into my machine and force me to physically open the drive to get it back out, i want to know. if the songs have mistakes burned on to them on purpose to ruin ripping, i wanna see a label.
we have a label to warn parents if the cd says "fuck" somewhere, i want one that tells me if it's been fucked.
well, sounds to me like Apple is slacking off then. i mean, WinXP has already released DOZENS of megs of security patches. come on Apple, get off your can. only two updates.
;)
slackers!!!!
After actually READING the reviews, i just wanted to post a few comments.
first, (as i type this on a G4 PB) it looks like Intel has done a great job with these chips. those battery life stats were just marketing fluff, looks like they're real. (although the 7 hour IBM had a "special" order battery with it that stuck out an inch from the back).
it's good to see the Windows world get some laptops that are actually focusing on what makes a laptop worthwhile, weight and battery life. the alienware machines are OK i guess, but suck as a true laptop IMO.
in any case, these chips look like a real improvement to both performance and to the Intel mindset. i'm happy to see them start working towards real world benefits in their chips over marketing hype and lame numbers games.
i wonder if it's a mapping thing. i know someone else who's stationed in the Middle East right now doing similar work who's also using a Mac to do it, although he had to purchase it himself.
there's a Mac presence within the Army, which can't be a bad thing.
"now, drop the little bomb icon on the little tank icon and they blow up"
and this just in, Marketing drones mistakenly promote their products abilities beyond the realm of reality.
i'm not buying that they had hours of notice until i see something on the subject a little more trustworthy than a marketing release designed to sell a product.
you're all reacting like that's actually the truth.
Um, yeah, just put your e-mail address here on this "special" list, and I swear I'll send them to the state for the do not mail list.
:)
Oh, and you may receive a few notices as to other great products we offer, such as appendage enlargement, ways to meet women, and wonderful investment opportunities.
Best Scam Ever.
well, it's sort of false. The first Kings Quest was set up so that everything that was important came in last.
:)
it was like a hintbook for nothin'
1. Before 7:53am, everything was nominal.
2. ~7:53am, portside hydraulic sensors went offline.
3. ~7:56am, portside elevator and aileron temperature sensors went offline.
4. ~7:58am, portside landing gear pressure and temperature sensors went offline.
5. ~8:00am, crew confirms portside landing gear sensor problems.
6. ~8:00am, all communication went offline.
If together the two groups and help eachother out, that seems wonderful to me. Not every business in the same market has to be working to destroy all others. Often times a symbiotic relationship will be more beneficial than a destructive one.
At this point they have 90% of the market to shoot for. There's plenty of room for both to grow together while taking most of their customers away from MS.
More marketshare means more apps. It also means that technologies like OpenGL just might survive and keey DirectX from taking over the gaming world.
Just think, standards that are standard. Programs designed to run on multiple platforms. Sharing ideas rather than secreting them away.
Sounds good to me.
oops, link should have been this. and it's not just the fans, game sites constantly wax nostalgic about the MOO series as seen here
The MOO series is probably one of the best strategy series of all time.
:)
it is constantly recommened by long time gamers who have experienced the joy that was MOO1 and MOO2. to put it in perspective, it is the sole reason i keep a DOS machine around, just to play this one stupid game.
Some other player's opinions can be found all over the 'net, and they love the MOO series.
and it's not just the fans, game sites constantly wax nostalgic about the MOO series as seen here
the third title, which is close to Gold at this point looks to be another great game in a great series, although it's not going to have the best graphics ever, it will likely have excellent game play, if it's anything like its predecessors.
don't let the anemic review above be your sole example of MOO3, there are lots of better ones around (although i don't have links on-hand)
i've been talking with someone who's had inside inf before, including the LCD iMac info, and the god awful flower power macs.
this looks like it's true. as long as it's only upgrades you pay for, i don't see that it's that big of a deal. get a new machine and you get the new software for free anyway, that's pretty much how it is now.
maybe if they can make money off it they'll update iMovie and iPhoto, both need it badly.
for pete's sake, is it that hard to understand?
Apple was using LG Electronics and they have ceased production. Hon Hai Precision Industry is now making the eMacs and iMacs.
At this point that's really too bad that someone is selling technology to China that blocks out websites, but does this really surprise anyone?
They're filtering the internet. It happens in libraries and schools in the U.S. all the time. In this case it's nation wide, but it's not as if the Chinese governemnt wouldn't have something to filter the internet in place if Sun, MS and Cisco weren't selling the stuff.
One could argue that China is better off with some filtering but access to the internet rather than no filtering and no 'net access. Sure, they block a lot of sites, but I'm willing to bet they don't get them all. Add on to that the fact that people are probably working just as hard coming up with ways to get around the filters.
This is a classic example of information wanting to be free, and it will be. Anything they have in place to block information will fall short. The filtering technology WILL fail, and then billions of people will have acess to the 'net. If the Chinese govt. wants to spend millions on technology from U.S. companies, that's fine by me.
to me, it seems that the biggest problem is time.
there is only so much time you can spend developing a game. eventually you have to publish it. this is dictated mainly by console life and the fact that if you spend years in development, what was groundbreaking in the beginning is blase when it publishes.
so say you have 2 years to create your game. rule #1 at this point. can't have a great game unless it looks great. so better get working on those graphics. and it better have some nice movies. this that and the other, and eventually gameplay gets tossed in there as well.
now look back 10 years to the original nintendo. (best gaming platform even IMO)
your main character is 12 pixels. the enemy is 10 pixels. you have midi sound. no cut scenes.
the same time frame now has almost no costs associated with graphics and sound, so more time and effort can be pourted into GAMEPLAY. for FUCK'S sake, get me gameplay!
some of my favorite games look like ass but are tons of fun. and isn't that really the point?