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What is spam? Unsolicited emails for unknown people? Unsolicited emails from companies you once did business with? Unsolicited email from companies you still do business with? Unsolicited email from relatives? How do you measure spam if you can't even define it?
One has been out for over a year, while the other two have had 2 months? Re-do this survey in a year, it's pointless. Right now, non gaming people (aka grandparents who buy stuff for grandkids, etc) have had way more advertising exposure to PS2 than any other system... They don't care about specs, they care about what they think is good (based on what they see on TV, and what they remember their kids asking for 6 months to a year ago...) so of course there will be more ps2's sold. Wait a year, and I'll bet my right arm that Microsoft will be winning the console war (in units sold, anyway)...
Okay, Canada! We get it! You guys rock! Next time we want some space magnesium, we'll know where to look. In the meantime, keep planting those trees.
Ya, being Canadian means we might be better than our American neighbours when it comes to nuclear astrophysics, but when it comes to satellite TV, you guys kick ASS! (GO DTV!!!):)
This is mud int he eye of everyone who claims that *nix is inherently more secure than Windows... This is proof positive that MicroSoft make quality products.
Good point! However, This is not 'proof positive' that Microsoft makes good products... Where on earth do you draw that conclusion from?
And although you are correct in that *nix and Windows both have their fair share of security holes and other vulnerablities, the key thing to remember is volume. There are a lot more computers running Microsoft's OS than any other. Thus a single security hole in Windows affects Millions of computers (if not billions), while a bug of this sort on a Unix platform only affects Thousands...
And add to that the fact that in companies *nix environments are usually run by (on average) more experienced 'hackers'/sysadmins than in companies where the environment is mostly 'Microsoft' based. ( Please don't flame me on this, just look up the stats on google) Most *nix admins make their network as secure as possible during and after installation (since it's not a point and click procedure), while most NT admins are surprised to learn that their system is wide open to attack after installation...
um...didn't Nintendo already do this? I think it's called Gameboy Advance
Ya, right... sure... Unlike the Gameboy advance, this unit has a display that is actually visible in a room without a 3000 watt light, and your hands don't cramp up trying to play it for more than 5 minutes. Oh, and a good software library to boot.
Yes assuming the cursor wasnt on the edge of the screen... So it works 98% of the time, except for the odd time when the cursor was at the edge of the screen. Then users would bitch that your game/program is buggy. When in reality its a limitation of the API that can be used on the Mac.
And why exactly would you want so set the mouse position?
A sin you say? And that's why Apple didn't include it? Ha! You try porting a popular game from Windows to your precious Mac platform without the ability to set the mouse position... Don't flame me, just try it... you'll be pleasently surprised.
Cocoa allows programmers to write powerful applications in a very short amount of time
Working in an office where my fellow software developers have had the 'joy' of working with mac OS X... I can assure you the above statement is about as false as they come.
But don't take my word for it... Go ahead and actually look at the library... It's worse than microsoft's MFC... sure it's simple at first, but you can't do anything advanced with it, without ending up directly accessing memory registers (to set the mouse position in OS X for example)...
When will this be on ESPN?
As soon as there are judges, and those judges can be bribed... and there's a special on the judges being bribed on abc, nbc, cbs, and any other major network... then and only then will it be a sport good enough for ESPN to carry it...
So you would like to donate to charities, and you'd rather have the burden placed on the general populace rather than a rich elite few?
I'm not saying exclude the rich charity donators, I'm simply saying include the not-so-rich (general populace, as you called it) donators as well.
I don't know how many movie tickets to starwars episode one were sold, but I'm sure if even just $0.05 of each ticket went to a charity, it would end up being a hell of a lot more money than what 2 people buying 2 studio props for say $100,000 could raise. Do you see my point? I'm not saying get rid of the option to spend an insane amount of money on one or two things (for the rich), but you can raise a lot more money if you take in very little from a whole lot of people.
I'm not rich, hell I usually live pay-check to pay-check... I can't donate lots of money to charities, but I'm quite happy parting with $0.50... It would however, cost more for a charity to process my $0.50 donation than its worth. But if that small donation comes from hundreds or thousands of people at once, through a corporation taking a small percentage off of a ticket (or product, or whatever), then the charity gets to tap into people like me who can't donate a lot, but still are quite willing to donate a little. And there are a lot of people who will glady donate a little.
So how much of your income from Win32 driver dev. job do you donate???
To American charities? None. I do however volunteer my time and services to local charities (here in Canada), when I have the time.
And what difference does it make if I donate a million dollars or none at all? Donations are one thing, but buying something where part of the proceeds goes to a charity is something totally different. You benifit and the charities benifit.
I rather like the idea when a corporation announces that a certain percentage of the profits on a product or on a certain day are donated to a charity. It lets lots of people participate, while still getting something out of it (since deep down, we're all selfish).
Sounds great and all... but why not donate some of the revenues from the films (which we already pay a hell of a lot of money to go see anyways) to these charities... why auction off only one or two things which can only be attained by the rich?
The man in charge of the security? Is it just me or does this seem like they are setting up a fall guy for the inevitable failure of their network security... Give the guys name out well in advance so we have someone to blame when everything gets hacked...
sorry, but I don't want AOL to have my credit card info, just as I don't want Microsoft to have it.
when will these companies learn that we don't want a huge easily hackable database with all of our info in it? I'm quite happy memorizing my credit card number and providing it only when I feel it's necessary. With these passport like services, it's way too easy for a company to get you to sign in to get free service, and then simply start billing you after 'n' days, since they already have your credit card info, etc, in their database... At least now they have to send you a bill, or at the very least you have to provide a credit card number for a free trial...
I personally don't care if it's Microsoft, or some other tech company... I don't feel overally confident that a huge database with all of our info in it on the web is not going to get hacked...
Now my credit card won't lose it's information... oh wait, it's info is statically encoded...
Ok, I just gotta ask, what application on/for a smartcard would use this? All smartcards I know of need a reader, and the reader usually provides the power to the smartcard for it to do it's thing... why would smartcards benifit from this? Are they going to put LCD displays on smartcards now? Thats really the only use I can think of, since every other use requires a reader anyway, so there's no point in the smartcard having a self contained power source...
I'm very open to someone pointing out an application I may have missed, but I just can't think of anything in today's world that would need this for a smartcard... (I can think of lots of other uses for non-smartcard devices though...)
Does that mean that if I pirate a directv signal here in Canada (which is legal), I can be prosecuted under US law for hacking? Even though it is legal in Canada? Could someone please clarify this?
Someone please define the differences between, say... software developer, software engineer, and ummm... code monkey...
Now who has to get certified, and is legally responsible? Being a code monkey, I already have too much responsibility... don't want more... where do I protest?
Always, ALWAYS use distilled water... first, it doesn't end up putting deposits in your pump, and second, if it does leak, nothing bad will happen to your CPU/components, since distilled water is an insulator (not a good one, but it won't conduct)...
Working at a company that just ported two games from PC to macOs, I would have to strongly disagree that porting cuts into thin profit margins... as a matter of fact it expands those profit margins, if anything... Do you know how many people only have a mac, and refuse to buy a PC, yet still want games... or even better, the huge number of linux only users, who would rather die than use windows? Sure it's only about 10-15% of the original windows gaming market, but it's still a nice bonus, and porting to other OS's usually takes 3 months (4 months if it involves stripping out DirectX and replacing it with OpenGL)... Not that expensive...
And as for consoles... I won't even touch that one...:P
A decade ago, when East Berlin teenagers stormed the Wall and crossed over into West Berlin, the first thing many of them did was rush to music stores to buy tapes and CD's they'd been secretly, illegally listening to for years.
Oh, ya right! Thats like saying napster fans rushed to buy cds in stores once the cd was officially released, even though they had been listening to it 'illegally' for weeks before... HA!
Perhaps if you actually read my post, you would realise that I am suggesting that the taliban were not as oppressive as is suggested in this post. If they were as oppressive, then even after they left, people would just all of a sudden start listening to music, going to theaters, and surfing the web... if they were as oppressive as the western media says, they would have systematically destroyed radios, theaters, computers, and any other infrastructure they felt was 'western'... they didn't... hell this guy got away with hiding a computer under his chickedn coop... This article is very one sided, and lacks facts to back it up.
I did read the article, and thats why I find it odd that people could simply hide technology under the noses of the taliban so easily if they were sooo oppressive...
Next time, instead of telling me to RTFP, why don't you read the post you are replying to first, and take the time to attempt to comprehend what you read... you may not agree with what I have to say, but don't accuse me of not reading the article...
sounds odd that for such oppressed people, this guy could get at a computer so fast... Sounds like this oppression view thing is a little one sided... Was the taliban really that oppressive? or are the western media outlets just trying to make them look just that little bit more evil?
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Different scale... The average Solitaire player is not of the mental capacity to affect slashdot, so one hour of their time only counts for about 20 seconds of slashdot time...
What is spam? Unsolicited emails for unknown people? Unsolicited emails from companies you once did business with? Unsolicited email from companies you still do business with? Unsolicited email from relatives? How do you measure spam if you can't even define it?
One has been out for over a year, while the other two have had 2 months? Re-do this survey in a year, it's pointless. Right now, non gaming people (aka grandparents who buy stuff for grandkids, etc) have had way more advertising exposure to PS2 than any other system... They don't care about specs, they care about what they think is good (based on what they see on TV, and what they remember their kids asking for 6 months to a year ago...) so of course there will be more ps2's sold. Wait a year, and I'll bet my right arm that Microsoft will be winning the console war (in units sold, anyway)...
Okay, Canada! We get it! You guys rock! Next time we want some space magnesium, we'll know where to look. In the meantime, keep planting those trees.
:)
Ya, being Canadian means we might be better than our American neighbours when it comes to nuclear astrophysics, but when it comes to satellite TV, you guys kick ASS! (GO DTV!!!)
This is mud int he eye of everyone who claims that *nix is inherently more secure than Windows... This is proof positive that MicroSoft make quality products.
Good point! However, This is not 'proof positive' that Microsoft makes good products... Where on earth do you draw that conclusion from?
And although you are correct in that *nix and Windows both have their fair share of security holes and other vulnerablities, the key thing to remember is volume. There are a lot more computers running Microsoft's OS than any other. Thus a single security hole in Windows affects Millions of computers (if not billions), while a bug of this sort on a Unix platform only affects Thousands...
And add to that the fact that in companies *nix environments are usually run by (on average) more experienced 'hackers'/sysadmins than in companies where the environment is mostly 'Microsoft' based. ( Please don't flame me on this, just look up the stats on google) Most *nix admins make their network as secure as possible during and after installation (since it's not a point and click procedure), while most NT admins are surprised to learn that their system is wide open to attack after installation...
um...didn't Nintendo already do this? I think it's called Gameboy Advance
Ya, right... sure... Unlike the Gameboy advance, this unit has a display that is actually visible in a room without a 3000 watt light, and your hands don't cramp up trying to play it for more than 5 minutes. Oh, and a good software library to boot.
Yes assuming the cursor wasnt on the edge of the screen... So it works 98% of the time, except for the odd time when the cursor was at the edge of the screen. Then users would bitch that your game/program is buggy. When in reality its a limitation of the API that can be used on the Mac.
And why exactly would you want so set the mouse position?
A sin you say? And that's why Apple didn't include it? Ha! You try porting a popular game from Windows to your precious Mac platform without the ability to set the mouse position... Don't flame me, just try it... you'll be pleasently surprised.
Cocoa allows programmers to write powerful applications in a very short amount of time
Working in an office where my fellow software developers have had the 'joy' of working with mac OS X... I can assure you the above statement is about as false as they come.
But don't take my word for it... Go ahead and actually look at the library... It's worse than microsoft's MFC... sure it's simple at first, but you can't do anything advanced with it, without ending up directly accessing memory registers (to set the mouse position in OS X for example)...
When will this be on ESPN?
As soon as there are judges, and those judges can be bribed... and there's a special on the judges being bribed on abc, nbc, cbs, and any other major network... then and only then will it be a sport good enough for ESPN to carry it...
So you would like to donate to charities, and you'd rather have the burden placed on the general populace rather than a rich elite few?
I'm not saying exclude the rich charity donators, I'm simply saying include the not-so-rich (general populace, as you called it) donators as well. I don't know how many movie tickets to starwars episode one were sold, but I'm sure if even just $0.05 of each ticket went to a charity, it would end up being a hell of a lot more money than what 2 people buying 2 studio props for say $100,000 could raise. Do you see my point? I'm not saying get rid of the option to spend an insane amount of money on one or two things (for the rich), but you can raise a lot more money if you take in very little from a whole lot of people.
I'm not rich, hell I usually live pay-check to pay-check... I can't donate lots of money to charities, but I'm quite happy parting with $0.50... It would however, cost more for a charity to process my $0.50 donation than its worth. But if that small donation comes from hundreds or thousands of people at once, through a corporation taking a small percentage off of a ticket (or product, or whatever), then the charity gets to tap into people like me who can't donate a lot, but still are quite willing to donate a little. And there are a lot of people who will glady donate a little.
So how much of your income from Win32 driver dev. job do you donate???
To American charities? None. I do however volunteer my time and services to local charities (here in Canada), when I have the time.
And what difference does it make if I donate a million dollars or none at all? Donations are one thing, but buying something where part of the proceeds goes to a charity is something totally different. You benifit and the charities benifit.
I rather like the idea when a corporation announces that a certain percentage of the profits on a product or on a certain day are donated to a charity. It lets lots of people participate, while still getting something out of it (since deep down, we're all selfish).
Sounds great and all... but why not donate some of the revenues from the films (which we already pay a hell of a lot of money to go see anyways) to these charities... why auction off only one or two things which can only be attained by the rich?
I'm a addicted to gambling... and believe me, when you got $100 riding on a Q3 tournament, it's addictive!
The man in charge of the security? Is it just me or does this seem like they are setting up a fall guy for the inevitable failure of their network security... Give the guys name out well in advance so we have someone to blame when everything gets hacked...
Pretty smart...
sorry, but I don't want AOL to have my credit card info, just as I don't want Microsoft to have it.
when will these companies learn that we don't want a huge easily hackable database with all of our info in it? I'm quite happy memorizing my credit card number and providing it only when I feel it's necessary. With these passport like services, it's way too easy for a company to get you to sign in to get free service, and then simply start billing you after 'n' days, since they already have your credit card info, etc, in their database... At least now they have to send you a bill, or at the very least you have to provide a credit card number for a free trial...
I personally don't care if it's Microsoft, or some other tech company... I don't feel overally confident that a huge database with all of our info in it on the web is not going to get hacked...
VmWare...
Why go through the hassle of porting it, when you can just run it on any OS you like using VmWare...???
Now my credit card won't lose it's information... oh wait, it's info is statically encoded...
Ok, I just gotta ask, what application on/for a smartcard would use this? All smartcards I know of need a reader, and the reader usually provides the power to the smartcard for it to do it's thing... why would smartcards benifit from this? Are they going to put LCD displays on smartcards now? Thats really the only use I can think of, since every other use requires a reader anyway, so there's no point in the smartcard having a self contained power source...
I'm very open to someone pointing out an application I may have missed, but I just can't think of anything in today's world that would need this for a smartcard... (I can think of lots of other uses for non-smartcard devices though...)
Does that mean that if I pirate a directv signal here in Canada (which is legal), I can be prosecuted under US law for hacking? Even though it is legal in Canada? Could someone please clarify this?
Someone please define the differences between, say... software developer, software engineer, and ummm... code monkey...
Now who has to get certified, and is legally responsible? Being a code monkey, I already have too much responsibility... don't want more... where do I protest?
Always, ALWAYS use distilled water... first, it doesn't end up putting deposits in your pump, and second, if it does leak, nothing bad will happen to your CPU/components, since distilled water is an insulator (not a good one, but it won't conduct)...
Working at a company that just ported two games from PC to macOs, I would have to strongly disagree that porting cuts into thin profit margins... as a matter of fact it expands those profit margins, if anything... Do you know how many people only have a mac, and refuse to buy a PC, yet still want games... or even better, the huge number of linux only users, who would rather die than use windows? Sure it's only about 10-15% of the original windows gaming market, but it's still a nice bonus, and porting to other OS's usually takes 3 months (4 months if it involves stripping out DirectX and replacing it with OpenGL)... Not that expensive...
:P
And as for consoles... I won't even touch that one...
A decade ago, when East Berlin teenagers stormed the Wall and crossed over into West Berlin, the first thing many of them did was rush to music stores to buy tapes and CD's they'd been secretly, illegally listening to for years. Oh, ya right! Thats like saying napster fans rushed to buy cds in stores once the cd was officially released, even though they had been listening to it 'illegally' for weeks before... HA!
Perhaps if you actually read my post, you would realise that I am suggesting that the taliban were not as oppressive as is suggested in this post. If they were as oppressive, then even after they left, people would just all of a sudden start listening to music, going to theaters, and surfing the web... if they were as oppressive as the western media says, they would have systematically destroyed radios, theaters, computers, and any other infrastructure they felt was 'western'... they didn't... hell this guy got away with hiding a computer under his chickedn coop... This article is very one sided, and lacks facts to back it up.
I did read the article, and thats why I find it odd that people could simply hide technology under the noses of the taliban so easily if they were sooo oppressive...
Next time, instead of telling me to RTFP, why don't you read the post you are replying to first, and take the time to attempt to comprehend what you read... you may not agree with what I have to say, but don't accuse me of not reading the article...
sounds odd that for such oppressed people, this guy could get at a computer so fast... Sounds like this oppression view thing is a little one sided... Was the taliban really that oppressive? or are the western media outlets just trying to make them look just that little bit more evil?