Make Microsoft look like assholes and make sure users know it's MS's fault.
On your social networking/Web 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, whatever site allow users to import from AIM, YIM and Google. However for MSN, grey out the option and next to it in red put "Due to legal pressure by Microsoft, if you use MSN, you must manually import your contacts" and give a link to a tedious page that restates this reason and make them upload them one at a time.
Naturally users are going to be rather upset at MS and wonder if maybe they should switch to AIM instead.
Yeah but that bow would have torn any normal LCD to shreds. This can take a knock onto the floor or a thrown toy (childs or geek) or something that might happen in an office or home. Don't expect it to deflect bullets, but do expect it to take a damn good knock to the screen that would render any other LCD a piece of junk.
This is an amusing thought... if they pick up any of our TV shows and record them and show them to their whole planet to prove life is out there, aren't they then guilty of piracy?
I don't think we have to worry about attack anyway. We have the most powerful weapon in the universe...Lawyers.
We'll be sending lots of them as soon as they finish rebroadcasting our work without paying our starving actors or their starving descendants and then they will pay... oh they will pay.
I doubt this chatbot is any better than the others(Dirty talking MSN Santa anyone?) I've seen and none are truly intelligent or sentient.
I think in this case, the men see this thing offer to chat about sex and their brain goes out the window which is why they don't notice at that point. I mean hell, given all of the bad typing and spelling and inability to correct typos I see out there, even if this thing talks in broken Russian, they probably think the girl is just blonde:)
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Ok, I have a dual 1.25 ghz G4 (1.5 gb ram) and I had some rather upsetting behavior when I first got the thing. Main thing was that the whole system would just stop, totally frozen from about 1-2 minutes. I also saw my first Kernel Panic in over 2 years 10 minutes after a clean install. Another issue was when Firefox would beachball, it would beachball any other application that had a text box in it at the same time, which was enormously frustrating. Then there was the whole moving could lose files thing. I was very glad I had backed my stuff up to DVD before the upgrade.
But 10.5.1 fixed all of those problems and I've only had a few small nagging ones or annoyances (I really hate stacks and wish I could turn it off for one). Now my system actually seems FASTER than when I had Tiger. The finder in particular is a lot snappier and my machine, while still not as noticably snappy as a new Intel based mac, is still snappy enough friends of mine have refused to believe the machine is 5 years old until I proved it to them. Then they were quite impressed!
The remaining problems I have seem to be application related. Some things like MT newswatcher lock up after I post, or freeze in inconvenient places. I had a copy of some open source software that was screwing up this way (I had downloaded the binary) but when I pulled down the source and recompiled it, it worked just fine, so I suspect that a lot of application problems are because the developers have not yet recompiled using the latest XCode for Leopard. While you shouldn't see that kind of incompatibility often in my opinion, given the radical changes Apple made to the OS and pulling out all vestiges of Classic, I can see maybe why some carbon apps in particular might need a recompiling to keep them from having issues.
I am sure there are more bugs to be squashed, but I think Apple will get them in time. 10.5.1 came pretty fast on the heels of the release and 10.5.2 is probably going to hit next month and kill the next batch and maybe the one after. By about 10.5.3 or so, I suspect things will be back more or less to the stability we had with Tiger. So give Apple a break, there was a lot of rewiring going on in Leopard, way more than you can see just by looking at the eye candy and Time Machine. It will take a bit of time to get everything perfectly smooth again.
Oh I should also add... think about when it was written too... 1955? At the time conclusions might have seemed reasonable as well given what we knew about the Earth's history back then. Since that time we've learned a lot more about Earth's history and the conditions that existed back then. Think of all we've advanced in since then. A broad paper such as this touches on geology, chemistry, physics, biology and astronomy. All of these fields have advanced by an incredible amount in the last 52 years. So the conclusions may look quite silly today given what we know. Back in 1955 they may have held a bit more weight due to limited or even incorrect knowledge we had at the time.
From reading the article, he had more or less forgotten about the paper (I mean it is like 52 years old now!) and seeing it quoted on creationist websites moved him to go back and re-read it. He found several glaring errors and thus retracted the paper. He probably would have done this a long time ago, but had simply forgotten about it. I mean can you remember everything you wrote back in school in detail? I know I don't and that was less than 10 years ago.
$280 to play Pacman and Uno? You are better off getting a IIe or Commodore 64 emulator and a deck of Uno cards if you are going to play stuff that old.
Actually Marathon didn't end at game three. The official story ended at game two, three was just a bunch of tech demos showing you how to make your own Marathon games. It continued in the hands of the users because they gave you their tools for making the levels. You probably won't ever see any official tools release that will let people make stories for the Halo universe even if they have to be free the way Bungie laid out the rules for Marathon mods. I cannot see Microsoft ever allowing it as it's too radical a concept for that company.
I'm still amazed that Rooster Teeth productions gets away with selling DVD's of Red Vs Blue. I'm surprised as hell MS hasn't come down with the legal hammer claiming ownership of the textures and whatnot and demanding they turn over all rights and revenue. Maybe Bungie's people stayed their hand, but I doubt it will be held back much longer now. We'll have to wait and see.
It might be a bit early to celebrate just yet. MS still has some stake in them and honestly, the old Bungie we knew and loved from the early days of PC gaming is dead and gone. I mean look at their press release, they refer to the Halo story as "property" rather than a story or a universe. It's just property to be flogged for $, not the labor of love and storytelling that their older games were. That is why the story for Halo has not been very good in the followup games and by Halo 3, you basically have a first person scenerio tacked onto a multiplayer game (Halo 2 wasn't far off from that either).
So yeah, Bungie is pretty badly infected by the taint of M$ and it may never recover it's old glory even after this split. I remember Jason Jones writing about how it was going to be so awesome because they would have all the resources of Microsoft. This was back in the late 90's. And they did what with all of that? Produced one big long game sold as three parts. I think he meant well when he made the decision (I don't know the man, but I can only guess), but the reality is that Bungie was just something MS wanted to pump out a popular game for their Xbox systems and then flog the money horse until it was dead.
Who knows, they might resurrect their old glory, the creativity that brought us Marathon and Myth and the original Halo. But it will take some time to break the final shackles MS has on them and remove the attitudes of money over creativity that has crippled a once great gaming company. It might happen.
Actually this and the space limitations are the same reason I am waiting on the touch. You do have a valid point in that non phone features in the iPhone are glaringly missing. Apple may not have thought the device ready for them yet (different processor maybe and they need to test the ports?) or maybe they are afraid of cannibalizing sales of the iPhone since email is one of it's hallmark features. I would really like Apple to broaden the iPod up to a full PDA and add the ability to add 3rd party devices like GPS and radio receiver modules. One of the best things we can do is to keep up pressure on Apple to meet with this new customer demand. Bigger flash drives should be out in 2008 and I suspect the next revision will have more space.
In fact, now that I think on it, limited space may be one big reason Apple left these apps out. The iPhone CAN play music and video but it is not going to be the main use of it. The touch however is geared primarily for these and these applications and the data they would cache and store would quickly eat into the available space. Bigger flash in the future may allow them to add these apps back in without worrying about cutting significantly into space for music and vids.
You can lift anything off the ground if you tack enough rocket power onto it. It will either go out of control and smash into the ground, or it will fly until it runs out and then plummet. They even say they will be using parachutes to recover it, and that is assuming it doesn't power dive into the dirt.
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Explain to me how Apple is to backport video to ipods with no video decoder hardware or the ram to run them. Explain how to backport wireless to ipods with no wireless transmitter.
Apple has backported a lot of features, but not all are possible to back port due to hardware limitations. It's like asking Sony to backport your cassette based walkman to play CD's.
If this works well against regular people, why can't we turn this around? I'd love to see a system designed to keep an eye on the activities of government employees and executives and elected officials. It would watch for suspicious activity such as bribe taking, shady dealings, conflicts of interest and spending too much time in airport restroom stalls.
Seriously, if they can design systems to watch the people, why can't there be a system designed to watch the government?
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Make Microsoft look like assholes and make sure users know it's MS's fault.
On your social networking/Web 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, whatever site allow users to import from AIM, YIM and Google. However for MSN, grey out the option and next to it in red put "Due to legal pressure by Microsoft, if you use MSN, you must manually import your contacts" and give a link to a tedious page that restates this reason and make them upload them one at a time.
Naturally users are going to be rather upset at MS and wonder if maybe they should switch to AIM instead.
Between this and Roland, is any link still safe?
Yeah but that bow would have torn any normal LCD to shreds. This can take a knock onto the floor or a thrown toy (childs or geek) or something that might happen in an office or home. Don't expect it to deflect bullets, but do expect it to take a damn good knock to the screen that would render any other LCD a piece of junk.
So is the article author. I mean hey, if I create a blog that just regurgitates news stories, can I get published on /. every day too?
This is an amusing thought... if they pick up any of our TV shows and record them and show them to their whole planet to prove life is out there, aren't they then guilty of piracy?
I don't think we have to worry about attack anyway. We have the most powerful weapon in the universe...Lawyers.
We'll be sending lots of them as soon as they finish rebroadcasting our work without paying our starving actors or their starving descendants and then they will pay... oh they will pay.
I guess they went to the blowout sale for the CompUSA in either Iraq or Afghanistan.
I doubt this chatbot is any better than the others(Dirty talking MSN Santa anyone?) I've seen and none are truly intelligent or sentient.
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I think in this case, the men see this thing offer to chat about sex and their brain goes out the window which is why they don't notice at that point. I mean hell, given all of the bad typing and spelling and inability to correct typos I see out there, even if this thing talks in broken Russian, they probably think the girl is just blonde
Then get Foxit instead.
Ok, I have a dual 1.25 ghz G4 (1.5 gb ram) and I had some rather upsetting behavior when I first got the thing. Main thing was that the whole system would just stop, totally frozen from about 1-2 minutes. I also saw my first Kernel Panic in over 2 years 10 minutes after a clean install. Another issue was when Firefox would beachball, it would beachball any other application that had a text box in it at the same time, which was enormously frustrating. Then there was the whole moving could lose files thing. I was very glad I had backed my stuff up to DVD before the upgrade.
But 10.5.1 fixed all of those problems and I've only had a few small nagging ones or annoyances (I really hate stacks and wish I could turn it off for one). Now my system actually seems FASTER than when I had Tiger. The finder in particular is a lot snappier and my machine, while still not as noticably snappy as a new Intel based mac, is still snappy enough friends of mine have refused to believe the machine is 5 years old until I proved it to them. Then they were quite impressed!
The remaining problems I have seem to be application related. Some things like MT newswatcher lock up after I post, or freeze in inconvenient places. I had a copy of some open source software that was screwing up this way (I had downloaded the binary) but when I pulled down the source and recompiled it, it worked just fine, so I suspect that a lot of application problems are because the developers have not yet recompiled using the latest XCode for Leopard. While you shouldn't see that kind of incompatibility often in my opinion, given the radical changes Apple made to the OS and pulling out all vestiges of Classic, I can see maybe why some carbon apps in particular might need a recompiling to keep them from having issues.
I am sure there are more bugs to be squashed, but I think Apple will get them in time. 10.5.1 came pretty fast on the heels of the release and 10.5.2 is probably going to hit next month and kill the next batch and maybe the one after. By about 10.5.3 or so, I suspect things will be back more or less to the stability we had with Tiger. So give Apple a break, there was a lot of rewiring going on in Leopard, way more than you can see just by looking at the eye candy and Time Machine. It will take a bit of time to get everything perfectly smooth again.
I was told if I reach the end, there will be cake. Yummy!
They should call it... .arr
Oh I should also add... think about when it was written too... 1955? At the time conclusions might have seemed reasonable as well given what we knew about the Earth's history back then. Since that time we've learned a lot more about Earth's history and the conditions that existed back then. Think of all we've advanced in since then. A broad paper such as this touches on geology, chemistry, physics, biology and astronomy. All of these fields have advanced by an incredible amount in the last 52 years. So the conclusions may look quite silly today given what we know. Back in 1955 they may have held a bit more weight due to limited or even incorrect knowledge we had at the time.
From reading the article, he had more or less forgotten about the paper (I mean it is like 52 years old now!) and seeing it quoted on creationist websites moved him to go back and re-read it. He found several glaring errors and thus retracted the paper. He probably would have done this a long time ago, but had simply forgotten about it. I mean can you remember everything you wrote back in school in detail? I know I don't and that was less than 10 years ago.
$280 to play Pacman and Uno? You are better off getting a IIe or Commodore 64 emulator and a deck of Uno cards if you are going to play stuff that old.
Ballmer must be mad.
That certainly explains it. Wonder what MS gets as a cut for allowing this?
Snape killed him. It's done.
*queues "Best Day Ever" music*
Actually Marathon didn't end at game three. The official story ended at game two, three was just a bunch of tech demos showing you how to make your own Marathon games. It continued in the hands of the users because they gave you their tools for making the levels. You probably won't ever see any official tools release that will let people make stories for the Halo universe even if they have to be free the way Bungie laid out the rules for Marathon mods. I cannot see Microsoft ever allowing it as it's too radical a concept for that company.
I'm still amazed that Rooster Teeth productions gets away with selling DVD's of Red Vs Blue. I'm surprised as hell MS hasn't come down with the legal hammer claiming ownership of the textures and whatnot and demanding they turn over all rights and revenue. Maybe Bungie's people stayed their hand, but I doubt it will be held back much longer now. We'll have to wait and see.
It might be a bit early to celebrate just yet. MS still has some stake in them and honestly, the old Bungie we knew and loved from the early days of PC gaming is dead and gone. I mean look at their press release, they refer to the Halo story as "property" rather than a story or a universe. It's just property to be flogged for $, not the labor of love and storytelling that their older games were. That is why the story for Halo has not been very good in the followup games and by Halo 3, you basically have a first person scenerio tacked onto a multiplayer game (Halo 2 wasn't far off from that either).
So yeah, Bungie is pretty badly infected by the taint of M$ and it may never recover it's old glory even after this split. I remember Jason Jones writing about how it was going to be so awesome because they would have all the resources of Microsoft. This was back in the late 90's. And they did what with all of that? Produced one big long game sold as three parts. I think he meant well when he made the decision (I don't know the man, but I can only guess), but the reality is that Bungie was just something MS wanted to pump out a popular game for their Xbox systems and then flog the money horse until it was dead.
Who knows, they might resurrect their old glory, the creativity that brought us Marathon and Myth and the original Halo. But it will take some time to break the final shackles MS has on them and remove the attitudes of money over creativity that has crippled a once great gaming company. It might happen.
You haven't heard of Windows?
Actually this and the space limitations are the same reason I am waiting on the touch. You do have a valid point in that non phone features in the iPhone are glaringly missing. Apple may not have thought the device ready for them yet (different processor maybe and they need to test the ports?) or maybe they are afraid of cannibalizing sales of the iPhone since email is one of it's hallmark features. I would really like Apple to broaden the iPod up to a full PDA and add the ability to add 3rd party devices like GPS and radio receiver modules. One of the best things we can do is to keep up pressure on Apple to meet with this new customer demand. Bigger flash drives should be out in 2008 and I suspect the next revision will have more space.
In fact, now that I think on it, limited space may be one big reason Apple left these apps out. The iPhone CAN play music and video but it is not going to be the main use of it. The touch however is geared primarily for these and these applications and the data they would cache and store would quickly eat into the available space. Bigger flash in the future may allow them to add these apps back in without worrying about cutting significantly into space for music and vids.
You can lift anything off the ground if you tack enough rocket power onto it. It will either go out of control and smash into the ground, or it will fly until it runs out and then plummet. They even say they will be using parachutes to recover it, and that is assuming it doesn't power dive into the dirt.
Explain to me how Apple is to backport video to ipods with no video decoder hardware or the ram to run them. Explain how to backport wireless to ipods with no wireless transmitter.
Apple has backported a lot of features, but not all are possible to back port due to hardware limitations. It's like asking Sony to backport your cassette based walkman to play CD's.
Not owning one I don't know this for sure but does this firmware install when you plug it into the mac on it's own or does it ask first?
It should automatically release a report to the press every night, or better yet, keep it on a website that anyone can read.
If this works well against regular people, why can't we turn this around? I'd love to see a system designed to keep an eye on the activities of government employees and executives and elected officials. It would watch for suspicious activity such as bribe taking, shady dealings, conflicts of interest and spending too much time in airport restroom stalls.
Seriously, if they can design systems to watch the people, why can't there be a system designed to watch the government?