Furthermore, the launch slate of games for Nintendo is terrible again, as usual, and this year there will be like 3 Wii U titles or something? And the next Zelda release is yet another port/remake?
It seems like the next generation MS and Sony consoles essentially run high-end commodity PC x86(-64) hardware with Blu-Ray drives and huge gobs of system and video memory (8GB combined GDDR5 in the case of PS4). No more Cell, powerpc, whatever have you and horrible graphics memory limitations (like 256MB, wtf).
So yeah, porting for those and PC will be relatively painless while the Wii U is stuck with Xbox 360 launch specs.
That sounds like what's happening now. Except your software vendors are not interested in making the distinction.
And there are free/cheap certificate providers out there that are generally accepted by most major software packages and OSes. I use one such for my home needs: StartSSL.
Just because you, personally, are not interested in a solution to the problem of authentication in the computer security field doesn't mean SSL certificates shouldn't make a stab at attempting to solve it. Access control (encryption) isn't really much use without the other.
Because historically boycotts don't do shit on their own. And what you suggest is less than a boycott. We're dealing with and in global forces that are many millions times more powerful than you or I and have so many fingers in so many pies that boycotts are completely beneath notice, even if you can get one started. We have a representative government to represent us. If they're no longer representing the interests of Americans as a whole then yes, we blame them and change them. Unfortunately, changing them is apparently not going to happen either.
ClamWin? ClamWin recently false-positived on userinit.exe in the system32 directory. The vetting on this program isn't nearly solid enough for it to be recommended for use on a windows machine, free/Free or not.
The only place I use ClamAV in is passing over emails on my linux machine.
I work IT for a college that used to push out McAfee Enterprise to all desktop machines. We switched our license/subscriptions/contract and pushed out Sophos right now.
McAfee would randomly mysteriously break and be completely unable to update its scanning engine or dat files, and out of THOUSANDS of desktop machines we'd have a bunch of them with definitions from months or years ago. Which ones? Hell if we knew!
Out of this latest Conficker crap imagine our surprise that McAfee simply didn't recognize the USB variant! We verified that Sophos in fact detected Conficker and immediately pushed Sophos to all of the computer labs and instructor stations.
And I still gotta remember back to the silly password-"protected" FTP of NAI/McAfee software.
So basically, McAfee is truly incompetent and I'm glad to see it gone on our computers.
Hey, maybe if my entire faction were composed of races that had innate resistances to stuns, fears, mind control, and all other manner of crowd control and the other faction weren't entirely dependant on the ability of one single class on clicking one single blessing of freedom button when instead they're all toting 2h weapons instead of healing/shielding/blessing, I'd win more BGs too!
Au contraire. Doom 3 in the "Ultra" mode will most definitely require 512MB of graphics card memory to run well, because it is loading that much data... not just for the art, but every layer of processing that goes over the textures like normal mapping, shaders, etc.
Otherwise you get hitching in scenes when Doom 3 needs to swap out that amount of data quickly for another batch of data (opening doors, switching from rendering level to reading the PDA, etc) because it will be moving data from the AGP memory cache from the main system memory bank.
Because the T1000 could've used this in the steel mill and not have been so glitched up in the heat as to not be able to reconstitute itself after the bazooka hit!
Indeed. I run 'sid' myself. Debian isn't going to "die" and certainly not just because its standards are too high to release Sarge quite yet, but I do recognize that life can be leeched out of it--and with a parasitic distro-peddling company like Canonical around, who knows when that may be?
Canonical has hired a number of critical packagers and maintainers of infrastructure of Debian and paid them to do priority work for Ubuntu instead of work on Debian.
Ubuntu, keeping in mind, depends on masses of packagers and developers who have chosen to package and quality-check for Debian. Canonical, in turn, depends on providing paid support for Ubuntu.
Debian has built up a mountain of goodwill by supporting so many different arches with rocksolid stability, and leveraging that into donations of hardware and bandwidth for a world of mirrors for its pages and packages. A start-up for-profit commercial entity cannot hope to duplicate this success, is unable to do so as so many others have done in a relationship that can be described as mutualism or commensalism, and instead satisfies itself with being a blood-sucking parasite that will end only in its own destruction along with that of the host.
And you wankers who want the latest and best but cannot see past the inconsequential metric of a release date of a "stable" set of packages, are selling your souls and that of the best distro of Linux to ensure it will happen.
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Furthermore, the launch slate of games for Nintendo is terrible again, as usual, and this year there will be like 3 Wii U titles or something? And the next Zelda release is yet another port/remake?
It seems like the next generation MS and Sony consoles essentially run high-end commodity PC x86(-64) hardware with Blu-Ray drives and huge gobs of system and video memory (8GB combined GDDR5 in the case of PS4). No more Cell, powerpc, whatever have you and horrible graphics memory limitations (like 256MB, wtf).
So yeah, porting for those and PC will be relatively painless while the Wii U is stuck with Xbox 360 launch specs.
Nintendo has missed the boat.
We don't LIKE the patent system, but we like abusers of the system even less. Hate the players AND hate the game.
That sounds like what's happening now. Except your software vendors are not interested in making the distinction.
And there are free/cheap certificate providers out there that are generally accepted by most major software packages and OSes. I use one such for my home needs: StartSSL.
Just because you, personally, are not interested in a solution to the problem of authentication in the computer security field doesn't mean SSL certificates shouldn't make a stab at attempting to solve it. Access control (encryption) isn't really much use without the other.
They sure did a good job of this in 2000, I wonder why they're not in the mainstream yet?
From your post I just got a bingo on this score card:
http://www.xkcd.com/1122/
Having to die first would probably be a deal breaker.
Hard-coding a 4x scaler into an operating system is not particularly innovative.
Also those non-phone devices you will be purchasing at un-subsidized prices. Wonderful.
Because historically boycotts don't do shit on their own. And what you suggest is less than a boycott. We're dealing with and in global forces that are many millions times more powerful than you or I and have so many fingers in so many pies that boycotts are completely beneath notice, even if you can get one started. We have a representative government to represent us. If they're no longer representing the interests of Americans as a whole then yes, we blame them and change them. Unfortunately, changing them is apparently not going to happen either.
ClamWin? ClamWin recently false-positived on userinit.exe in the system32 directory. The vetting on this program isn't nearly solid enough for it to be recommended for use on a windows machine, free/Free or not.
The only place I use ClamAV in is passing over emails on my linux machine.
If somebody's going to try to "pop" a cell tower they're certainly not going to care if step 1 of the process was legal or not.
I'm sure it's occurred to more than a few of us that citing "duplication of functionality" is a gigantic fucking can of worms.
And Apple opened it.
I work IT for a college that used to push out McAfee Enterprise to all desktop machines. We
switched our license/subscriptions/contract and pushed out Sophos right now.
McAfee would randomly mysteriously break and be completely unable to update its scanning engine or dat files, and out of THOUSANDS of desktop machines we'd have a bunch of them with definitions from months or years ago. Which ones? Hell if we knew!
Out of this latest Conficker crap imagine our surprise that McAfee simply didn't recognize the USB variant! We verified that Sophos in fact detected Conficker and immediately pushed Sophos to all of the computer labs and instructor stations.
And I still gotta remember back to the silly password-"protected" FTP of NAI/McAfee software.
So basically, McAfee is truly incompetent and I'm glad to see it gone on our computers.
Was going to be me, but then I posted in this thread.
If the server actually holding the code is compromised a hacked apt-get that accepts bogus keys is probably going to be the least of your worries.
Hey, maybe if my entire faction were composed of races that had innate resistances to stuns, fears, mind control, and all other manner of crowd control and the other faction weren't entirely dependant on the ability of one single class on clicking one single blessing of freedom button when instead they're all toting 2h weapons instead of healing/shielding/blessing, I'd win more BGs too!
7 years after Endor, actually. (Jedi Academy trilogy)
17 would just be ridiculous.
Otherwise you get hitching in scenes when Doom 3 needs to swap out that amount of data quickly for another batch of data (opening doors, switching from rendering level to reading the PDA, etc) because it will be moving data from the AGP memory cache from the main system memory bank.
Because the T1000 could've used this in the steel mill and not have been so glitched up in the heat as to not be able to reconstitute itself after the bazooka hit!
Garbage in, garbage out.
You can't correct for faulty input if you don't know if or why it is faulty input.
Indeed. I run 'sid' myself. Debian isn't going to "die" and certainly not just because its standards are too high to release Sarge quite yet, but I do recognize that life can be leeched out of it--and with a parasitic distro-peddling company like Canonical around, who knows when that may be?
Ubuntu is a betrayal of Debian.
Canonical has hired a number of critical packagers and maintainers of infrastructure of Debian and paid them to do priority work for Ubuntu instead of work on Debian.
Ubuntu, keeping in mind, depends on masses of packagers and developers who have chosen to package and quality-check for Debian. Canonical, in turn, depends on providing paid support for Ubuntu.
Debian has built up a mountain of goodwill by supporting so many different arches with rocksolid stability, and leveraging that into donations of hardware and bandwidth for a world of mirrors for its pages and packages. A start-up for-profit commercial entity cannot hope to duplicate this success, is unable to do so as so many others have done in a relationship that can be described as mutualism or commensalism, and instead satisfies itself with being a blood-sucking parasite that will end only in its own destruction along with that of the host.
And you wankers who want the latest and best but cannot see past the inconsequential metric of a release date of a "stable" set of packages, are selling your souls and that of the best distro of Linux to ensure it will happen.
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Read this fascinating article at failmath.com.