When vista final is released, it will be the most secure windows release to date.
And the most fucking annoying if you actually want to *do* anything outside of wordprocessing, web browsing or gaming.
I've used this beta and you can be asked for "confirm" your actions 3 or 4 times just trying to do something simple like get in and change your TCP/IP settings - on top of all the usual confirmation dialogs you'd get in XP/2K. Sure, you can turn off UAC, but that somewhat defeats the point of having it there and you certainly can't do it if you *share* the machine with someone clueless.
I couldn't help but notice that whenever you're running (which is almost all the time since you run by default), any semblance of control goes out the window. It's like playing on ice half the time - you pretty much have to use "walk" for any kind of controlled navigation or platform jumping, which is annoying as you have to be running to make it across most of the gaps.
It's also pretty buggy, with the game actually stopping at one point because the AI had "forgotten" to blow a wall that I needed to pass - thankfully there was a workaround, but I suspect that the short turnaround planned for this series will result in more bugs that usual.
That said, aside from the length (under 4 hours playtime) it was an enjoyable FPS - although I did find myself getting by almost entirely with my pistol until the ammo started to become scarce in the later levels. One headshot will happily take out 90% of the enemies you face.
IMHO it's one thing for me to pirate Photoshop because I want to piss about with some photos and see what I can do with it, when there's no way in hell I can afford to pay for a legit copy. It's quite another for a company to make a profit using pirated copies of Photoshop because they don't want their bottom line affected by a couple of licenses from Adobe.
The government in the UK already regularly violates the Data Protection Act in the name of "fighting terrorism", I really can't see them being bothered about doing so on a larger scale.
The City of Heroes backstory timeline has covered a few similar events, notably the Might for Right Act, which "proclaimed super-powered individuals and vigilante heroes a valuable national resource subject to draft without notice into the service of the United States government."
Perhaps it's been taken out of context completely and what they actually meant is that *including* commercials as part of the download is unavoidable, not that you'll be prevented from skipping them.
And that's a half-assed excuse made up by somebody to try and mask the fact that they screwed up and got it wrong.
It's not ironic. It's not a shift in meaning. It's not the natural evolution of language. It's someone who fucked up and tried to cover it up by spouting more bullshit.
All of Slashdotter's features are optional, and the extension is compatible with Firefox, the Mozilla Suite, Seamonkey, and Flock.
As a Seamonkey user, I'm really sick of Firefox extensions that refuse to work because the author couldn't be bothered to check them properly, so thank you for taking the time.
Clearly you haven't visited many personal websites lately. Most of them are exactly the same as they have been for years - namely some poorly coloured text on a tiled image background with a few pictures of their pets and a huge animated.gif for the title.
Suprisingly few people actually have the knowledge or inclination to go as far as putting up photo galleries, blogs, calendars and other associated crap on their own personal homepage - there are plenty of other services (read: MySpace for the mostpart) that do that for you.
Somebody at the RI/MPAA forgot to mail their "donations" to Intel. Expect Intel to see the error of their ways before long (3 business days for a cheque to clear these days isn't it?).
It's quite simple - I pay the BBC £120ish a year and as a result I don't see any reason why I shouldn't enjoy the content how and when I choose to. They don't lose money from advertising if I don't watch at the alotted time, they already have the money, whether I watch it at 8pm on a Sunday on BBC2 or 10am on a Monday off of Usenet is of no concern to them.
The operators of this eDonkey site chose not to exercise control over files being traded by users which including those containing child pornography, bomb-making instructions and terrorist training videos.
In other news, phone directories choose not to exercise control over people they list, which include paedophiles, bomb-making experts and terrorists.
Yes and no. The lords will almost certainly strike down any crazy legislation that the government tries to put through, however, as Tony Blair proved with the Fox Hunting Ban, if the Lords block him repeatedly he'll just force the legislation through under the Parliament Act.
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When vista final is released, it will be the most secure windows release to date.
And the most fucking annoying if you actually want to *do* anything outside of wordprocessing, web browsing or gaming.
I've used this beta and you can be asked for "confirm" your actions 3 or 4 times just trying to do something simple like get in and change your TCP/IP settings - on top of all the usual confirmation dialogs you'd get in XP/2K. Sure, you can turn off UAC, but that somewhat defeats the point of having it there and you certainly can't do it if you *share* the machine with someone clueless.
By randomly generating the key at runtime and then sending it back to the virus author?
Only if they *knew* that the password is the same for everyone, which they didn't - until now.
The may be "guilty" of it, but there's no law in Sweden that prevents them from doing it.
The soundtrack info is available on the official site: http://www.sinepisodes.com/index.php?soundtrack
As has already been mentioned, the whole "album" is available via iTunes.
I couldn't help but notice that whenever you're running (which is almost all the time since you run by default), any semblance of control goes out the window. It's like playing on ice half the time - you pretty much have to use "walk" for any kind of controlled navigation or platform jumping, which is annoying as you have to be running to make it across most of the gaps.
It's also pretty buggy, with the game actually stopping at one point because the AI had "forgotten" to blow a wall that I needed to pass - thankfully there was a workaround, but I suspect that the short turnaround planned for this series will result in more bugs that usual.
That said, aside from the length (under 4 hours playtime) it was an enjoyable FPS - although I did find myself getting by almost entirely with my pistol until the ammo started to become scarce in the later levels. One headshot will happily take out 90% of the enemies you face.
Indeed.
IMHO it's one thing for me to pirate Photoshop because I want to piss about with some photos and see what I can do with it, when there's no way in hell I can afford to pay for a legit copy. It's quite another for a company to make a profit using pirated copies of Photoshop because they don't want their bottom line affected by a couple of licenses from Adobe.
It was having trouble before /. even linked to it - I saw it on the BBC site about 6 hours ago and it was seriously struggling then.
Yes, that this kit clearly isn't aimed at you.
The government in the UK already regularly violates the Data Protection Act in the name of "fighting terrorism", I really can't see them being bothered about doing so on a larger scale.
The City of Heroes backstory timeline has covered a few similar events, notably the Might for Right Act, which "proclaimed super-powered individuals and vigilante heroes a valuable national resource subject to draft without notice into the service of the United States government."
At least with Slashdot, most of the comments are made by informed people.
You must be new here.
Perhaps it's been taken out of context completely and what they actually meant is that *including* commercials as part of the download is unavoidable, not that you'll be prevented from skipping them.
2,000, not 20,000.
The summary is remarkably incorrect, even for a Slashdot story.
And that's a half-assed excuse made up by somebody to try and mask the fact that they screwed up and got it wrong.
It's not ironic. It's not a shift in meaning. It's not the natural evolution of language. It's someone who fucked up and tried to cover it up by spouting more bullshit.
All of Slashdotter's features are optional, and the extension is compatible with Firefox, the Mozilla Suite, Seamonkey, and Flock.
As a Seamonkey user, I'm really sick of Firefox extensions that refuse to work because the author couldn't be bothered to check them properly, so thank you for taking the time.
Clearly you haven't visited many personal websites lately. Most of them are exactly the same as they have been for years - namely some poorly coloured text on a tiled image background with a few pictures of their pets and a huge animated .gif for the title.
Suprisingly few people actually have the knowledge or inclination to go as far as putting up photo galleries, blogs, calendars and other associated crap on their own personal homepage - there are plenty of other services (read: MySpace for the mostpart) that do that for you.
Somebody at the RI/MPAA forgot to mail their "donations" to Intel. Expect Intel to see the error of their ways before long (3 business days for a cheque to clear these days isn't it?).
What? Me, cynical?
http://adblockplus.mozdev.org/
It's quite simple - I pay the BBC £120ish a year and as a result I don't see any reason why I shouldn't enjoy the content how and when I choose to. They don't lose money from advertising if I don't watch at the alotted time, they already have the money, whether I watch it at 8pm on a Sunday on BBC2 or 10am on a Monday off of Usenet is of no concern to them.
The all-powerful HDCP connection.
Necessity is the mother of invention, after all.
The operators of this eDonkey site chose not to exercise control over files being traded by users which including those containing child pornography, bomb-making instructions and terrorist training videos.
In other news, phone directories choose not to exercise control over people they list, which include paedophiles, bomb-making experts and terrorists.
It's not the card, it's the vast amount of personal data that the government is going to be linking to the card.
Yes and no. The lords will almost certainly strike down any crazy legislation that the government tries to put through, however, as Tony Blair proved with the Fox Hunting Ban, if the Lords block him repeatedly he'll just force the legislation through under the Parliament Act.