I do kind of agree with this; beyond a certain point of security measures, information campaigns and automated fraud-protection mechanisms it starts getting unreasonable to expect the banks to take financial responsibility for their customers' stupidity.
Now I agree that the bar should be set very high, but at some point you have to accept that there are very stupid people out there who will do everything in their power to circumvent the things you put in place to protect them from themselves and it's not really fair that the rest of us should have to pay to bail them out (which is essentially what happens, the banks inevitably pass on the costs of fraud to their customers).
The Mac version of Steam has been out since 2010, the PC version since 2003, so it's not exactly fair to compare them directly.
Besides, your numbers are *way* off, it's actually closer to 1579 vs 245 for PC and Mac respectively - I suspect you included all the demos, videos, mods and DLC in your totals.
Everyone has biases, as long as we know what they are and why they are we're able to make informed decisions about the information they provide us. The problem comes when people don't disclose things like employment by somebody they're biased in favour of because then we lack the information we need to make our decisions.
Server 2008 R2 is a massive step forwards from 2003 in pretty much every way, trying to claim that the only reason to upgrade to it is because of MS cutting off support for 2003 suggests to me that you've never used it.
And how many of those apps will really not run on a 64-bit OS? I've not come across anything in the last couple of years that won't work under 64-bit Windows 7 unless it has a moronic installer check that it doesn't need or is something ancient that needs the 16-bit subsystem to function.
While I will admit that the technical underpinnings of Windows 8 and Server 8 are a pretty reasonable improvement over 7/2008 R2, the Metro UI is a big step backwards in terms of desktop usability for all but the most basic users and the way they've included some bits of it - seemingly at random - in the server platform is mystifying to me.
If the whole Metro tiles thing was just a front-end to make it easier for average users to find, organise and launch their applications then I'd be fine with it, but it's not, it's a whole new suite of "apps" in addition to all the existing desktop versions, only without silly things like multitasking included.
Put it this way, as someone who has been using Windows in one form or another for close to 20 years, I really shouldn't have to spend 5 minutes trying to work out where the hell they've moved "Shut Down" to because it's behind a totally un-signposted hotspot at the bottom right of the taskbar and then a non-obvious icon labelled "Settings" and finally the "Power" option under that (Yes, Alt-F4 still works, but that's hardly the point, or useful over a windowed RDP session).
Because nobody who would make a good president would want the job and, as we all know, nobody capable of getting themselves elected president should under any circumstances be allowed to do so.
Just because the US healthcare system can offer a very high quality of care doesn't mean that it's any use to its citizens when the vast majority of them can't afford it.
If you're fabulously wealthy then the US offers some of the best healthcare in the world, but if you're not, it's a disaster area.
At this point, American politics has become so partisan and so self-destructive with your elected officials taking more and more extreme positions on endlessly unimportant issues that I'm amazed any of you are willing to support the Republicans or Democrats.
Max Mosley is an idiot; all he's doing with his legal action is drawing *more* attention to his Nazi-themed orgies and ensuring that, even if he's successful, instead of people finding stories and images about said orgies when they search for him, they'll find stories and images about him trying to censor the stories and images about said orgies.
It's hard to claim it's a privacy issue when it's already in the public domain.
If only there were some kind of independent judicial inquiry currently in progress that was investigating the culture, practice & ethics of the press...
At this point it's virtually impossible for politicians, at least in the UK, to avoid looking into anything involving News International or other new media organisations. Any attempt to deflect attention from allegations such as this would be met with a very nasty response from their voters.
In retrospect, the fact that it took the hacking and possible manipulation of a murdered girl's voicemail to get people to pay attention is a little depressing, but at least now they are paying attention.
It hasn't exactly worked out like that for wired internet, so why would it for wireless? My provider is currently deploying 100Mbps connections to their customers, despite still having silly caps on data usage that they introduced when they moved from a 10Mbps top tier to a 20Mbps one. I'd have much prefered it if they'd followed your vision and stuck with 10Mpbs that they could reliably deliver to all their users 24/7 and remove the need for caps.
You guys do know there are other countries, right? Stuff happens in them all the time that could arguably be called "news" and doesn't involve America at all.
I don't know, Windows 8 is one hell of an interface shift from Windows 7; if you think you had trouble with users getting lost when you switched to Office 2007 with the Ribbon, just wait until you take away their start menu and their desktop.
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I do kind of agree with this; beyond a certain point of security measures, information campaigns and automated fraud-protection mechanisms it starts getting unreasonable to expect the banks to take financial responsibility for their customers' stupidity.
Now I agree that the bar should be set very high, but at some point you have to accept that there are very stupid people out there who will do everything in their power to circumvent the things you put in place to protect them from themselves and it's not really fair that the rest of us should have to pay to bail them out (which is essentially what happens, the banks inevitably pass on the costs of fraud to their customers).
245 Mac titles at the moment http://store.steampowered.com/search#category1=998&os=mac&advanced=0&sort_order=ASC&page=1
The Mac version of Steam has been out since 2010, the PC version since 2003, so it's not exactly fair to compare them directly.
Besides, your numbers are *way* off, it's actually closer to 1579 vs 245 for PC and Mac respectively - I suspect you included all the demos, videos, mods and DLC in your totals.
Everyone has biases, as long as we know what they are and why they are we're able to make informed decisions about the information they provide us. The problem comes when people don't disclose things like employment by somebody they're biased in favour of because then we lack the information we need to make our decisions.
Oh I agree, but for the time being we just have to put up with BREIN.
Server 2008 R2 is a massive step forwards from 2003 in pretty much every way, trying to claim that the only reason to upgrade to it is because of MS cutting off support for 2003 suggests to me that you've never used it.
And how many of those apps will really not run on a 64-bit OS? I've not come across anything in the last couple of years that won't work under 64-bit Windows 7 unless it has a moronic installer check that it doesn't need or is something ancient that needs the 16-bit subsystem to function.
While I will admit that the technical underpinnings of Windows 8 and Server 8 are a pretty reasonable improvement over 7/2008 R2, the Metro UI is a big step backwards in terms of desktop usability for all but the most basic users and the way they've included some bits of it - seemingly at random - in the server platform is mystifying to me.
If the whole Metro tiles thing was just a front-end to make it easier for average users to find, organise and launch their applications then I'd be fine with it, but it's not, it's a whole new suite of "apps" in addition to all the existing desktop versions, only without silly things like multitasking included.
Put it this way, as someone who has been using Windows in one form or another for close to 20 years, I really shouldn't have to spend 5 minutes trying to work out where the hell they've moved "Shut Down" to because it's behind a totally un-signposted hotspot at the bottom right of the taskbar and then a non-obvious icon labelled "Settings" and finally the "Power" option under that (Yes, Alt-F4 still works, but that's hardly the point, or useful over a windowed RDP session).
Doubling the price of a 2Tb external drive? You're going to have to pirate a *shitload* of stuff to make up for that.
Because nobody who would make a good president would want the job and, as we all know, nobody capable of getting themselves elected president should under any circumstances be allowed to do so.
They allow the government to precisely target which sections of the population to ignore.
Just because the US healthcare system can offer a very high quality of care doesn't mean that it's any use to its citizens when the vast majority of them can't afford it.
If you're fabulously wealthy then the US offers some of the best healthcare in the world, but if you're not, it's a disaster area.
Or British, though for virtually the opposite reasons.
Duplicated without consent.
Ad hoc wireless access point, one would presume.
At this point, American politics has become so partisan and so self-destructive with your elected officials taking more and more extreme positions on endlessly unimportant issues that I'm amazed any of you are willing to support the Republicans or Democrats.
Max Mosley is an idiot; all he's doing with his legal action is drawing *more* attention to his Nazi-themed orgies and ensuring that, even if he's successful, instead of people finding stories and images about said orgies when they search for him, they'll find stories and images about him trying to censor the stories and images about said orgies.
It's hard to claim it's a privacy issue when it's already in the public domain.
Akamai are big. Really big. Having them offer IPv6 services to their customers is a big step forward in terms of making IPv6 adoption practical.
Is that what they're calling it these days?
Because there wasn't any collateral damage in the Megaupload case?
If only there were some kind of independent judicial inquiry currently in progress that was investigating the culture, practice & ethics of the press...
At this point it's virtually impossible for politicians, at least in the UK, to avoid looking into anything involving News International or other new media organisations. Any attempt to deflect attention from allegations such as this would be met with a very nasty response from their voters.
In retrospect, the fact that it took the hacking and possible manipulation of a murdered girl's voicemail to get people to pay attention is a little depressing, but at least now they are paying attention.
one of the most, if not the most inhospitable place on the planet apart from Brierley hill.
Possibly the most esoteric regional reference I've ever seen on Slashdot, well played sir.
It hasn't exactly worked out like that for wired internet, so why would it for wireless? My provider is currently deploying 100Mbps connections to their customers, despite still having silly caps on data usage that they introduced when they moved from a 10Mbps top tier to a 20Mbps one. I'd have much prefered it if they'd followed your vision and stuck with 10Mpbs that they could reliably deliver to all their users 24/7 and remove the need for caps.
You guys do know there are other countries, right? Stuff happens in them all the time that could arguably be called "news" and doesn't involve America at all.
I don't know, Windows 8 is one hell of an interface shift from Windows 7; if you think you had trouble with users getting lost when you switched to Office 2007 with the Ribbon, just wait until you take away their start menu and their desktop.