I will say, the one thing Mac has done well is avoiding the exact problem the OP describes. They basically have 2 laptops, with a few different monitor sizes. The specs can vary slightly, but not so much as to make a real difference.
Sounds like an awesome result, but isn't this more a feat of engineering than science? Not that I am complaining per se, but I feel that it's important that people recognize the difference.
Because reading a normal desktop's output from 15 feet away on the couch is hard. The nice thing about these is that the UI is designed for easy reading and navigation with a remote.
Incognito mode doesn't prevent cookies within the browsing session. It merely prevents them from persisting after private-browsing mode has ended. Hence, you can still log into sites that use cookies.
I don't think a reasonable password hashing algorithm works like that. If I change one character in the password (any single character) the entire hash could/should change. You can't look at it and say "well, 90% of the hash matches, let's tweak it a bit more."
"On some login systems, the computer will check password characters one at a time, and kick back a "login failed" message as soon as it spots a bad character in the password."
If you do almost any sort of reasonable hashing or encryption algorthm on a password, this becomes a moot point, since the place that fails to match in the string will change. Are there still sites out there that don't do this? Really?
It's not IP Law. It's marketing and, as frustrating as the end result is, it is completely reasonable in the bigger picture. If a product maker wants to sell their product for different prices in different places, then by all means, go for it. Furthermore, if an product maker needs to translate or in some other way localize their product for international markets, then that adds costs.
There's nothing inherently wrong with adjusting your product for the market your selling in.
You're right in that I forgot to mention the time-waves. The opponent goes back to kill you in the past, which you see (like I mentioned) but his actions take time to catch up with you.
It is a little hard to picture, but think of it like this:
You're opponent goes in the past and kills your troops. In the present, suddenly, your troops start disappearing. You look down at the bottom of the screen and see your opponent screwing around in the past (it shows you where they currently are in time.) So you send some of your troops back to stop his attack. It is rather complex, but they make it work remarkably well.
You can even send a troop back in time to team up with itself.
I just want to second you on this, Pazy. Yes it was dark - and that was awesome. It's one of the few games where I genuinely felt scared and startled at times. Sure it became a bit predictable at times, but so are horror movies and people still love those.
Again, I don't think the game was perfect, but it was one of the better FPS productions I've seen I'd seen in awhile.
Doom 3 certainly wasn't perfect, but I enjoyed it. And I certainly don't see how they veered too far from the original concept of Doom either. Am I alone in this opinion?
I've always wondered - what's the noise like on a 10k drive? I would think its safe to assume that they're louder, but with smaller platters, who knows. I'm always working to make my machine quieter, and sometimes this seems to come into conflict with making it faster.
Everytime I read about a new form of server malware, I try to check a LAMP server that I run. So far I've come up clean but I've hardly done a full inspection. Anyone know of a good way to scan a set up? Sophos says that they are detecting thousands of new sites - how are they scanning them?
My mother bought me an HD-DVD for the holidays, assuming for some reason that I owned an HD player. Now, this is a series that I wanted in HD (Planet Earth), but I was going to wait till this annoying format war was over. Now of course, a month later, the format that she bought me turns out to be losing.
Anyone know if there will be some way to exchange formats, should HD-DVD finally die out? Buying a hybrid player seems like an awful waste for a single dvd. Anyone else have a contingency plan to play HD-DVD's that they own?
I want to see you shake your bluetooth enabled car so you can sync with your phone...
Perhaps you could - there's no reason a properly sensitive gyroscope can't detect the acceleration, turns, and even rumblings of a car and pair it up with a similarly moving phone.
As a few examples:
Illegal narcotics
Pornography
Guns (regular or automatic)
Perscription medications
It's worth noting that everything you listed there is considered in some way harmful by someone. No one really considers music (overall) to be harmful*. If you went and set a stack of CD's on the street that said "take one", no one is going to freak out.
*Yes, I know some people rail against explicit lyrics, but that says nothing of other forms of music. Let's not get pedantic here.
Also, referring to 1,000,000,000 as a "psychological barrier" is kind of a strange term. It doesn't block our thought processes. Calling it a "symbolic mile-stone" might be more appropriate.
Slashdot Mirror
I will say, the one thing Mac has done well is avoiding the exact problem the OP describes. They basically have 2 laptops, with a few different monitor sizes. The specs can vary slightly, but not so much as to make a real difference.
You're right! I read the title of the article, not the title of the fair when I was thinking this. Doh!
Sounds like an awesome result, but isn't this more a feat of engineering than science? Not that I am complaining per se, but I feel that it's important that people recognize the difference.
Because reading a normal desktop's output from 15 feet away on the couch is hard. The nice thing about these is that the UI is designed for easy reading and navigation with a remote.
Incognito mode doesn't prevent cookies within the browsing session. It merely prevents them from persisting after private-browsing mode has ended. Hence, you can still log into sites that use cookies.
Stop making it bigger! Start making it faster!
I don't think a reasonable password hashing algorithm works like that. If I change one character in the password (any single character) the entire hash could/should change. You can't look at it and say "well, 90% of the hash matches, let's tweak it a bit more."
If you do almost any sort of reasonable hashing or encryption algorthm on a password, this becomes a moot point, since the place that fails to match in the string will change. Are there still sites out there that don't do this? Really?
It's not IP Law. It's marketing and, as frustrating as the end result is, it is completely reasonable in the bigger picture. If a product maker wants to sell their product for different prices in different places, then by all means, go for it. Furthermore, if an product maker needs to translate or in some other way localize their product for international markets, then that adds costs. There's nothing inherently wrong with adjusting your product for the market your selling in.
You're right in that I forgot to mention the time-waves. The opponent goes back to kill you in the past, which you see (like I mentioned) but his actions take time to catch up with you.
It is a little hard to picture, but think of it like this:
You're opponent goes in the past and kills your troops. In the present, suddenly, your troops start disappearing. You look down at the bottom of the screen and see your opponent screwing around in the past (it shows you where they currently are in time.) So you send some of your troops back to stop his attack. It is rather complex, but they make it work remarkably well.
You can even send a troop back in time to team up with itself.
http://www.doxpara.com/ They have a dns checker on the right hand side. This is linked from the original /. article on this topic.
Anyone have the actual RC2 release notes instead of just the Ffx3 general release notes?
I just want to second you on this, Pazy. Yes it was dark - and that was awesome. It's one of the few games where I genuinely felt scared and startled at times. Sure it became a bit predictable at times, but so are horror movies and people still love those. Again, I don't think the game was perfect, but it was one of the better FPS productions I've seen I'd seen in awhile.
Doom 3 certainly wasn't perfect, but I enjoyed it. And I certainly don't see how they veered too far from the original concept of Doom either. Am I alone in this opinion?
I've always wondered - what's the noise like on a 10k drive? I would think its safe to assume that they're louder, but with smaller platters, who knows. I'm always working to make my machine quieter, and sometimes this seems to come into conflict with making it faster.
Everytime I read about a new form of server malware, I try to check a LAMP server that I run. So far I've come up clean but I've hardly done a full inspection. Anyone know of a good way to scan a set up? Sophos says that they are detecting thousands of new sites - how are they scanning them?
My mother bought me an HD-DVD for the holidays, assuming for some reason that I owned an HD player. Now, this is a series that I wanted in HD (Planet Earth), but I was going to wait till this annoying format war was over. Now of course, a month later, the format that she bought me turns out to be losing.
Anyone know if there will be some way to exchange formats, should HD-DVD finally die out? Buying a hybrid player seems like an awful waste for a single dvd. Anyone else have a contingency plan to play HD-DVD's that they own?
It's worth noting that everything you listed there is considered in some way harmful by someone. No one really considers music (overall) to be harmful*. If you went and set a stack of CD's on the street that said "take one", no one is going to freak out.
*Yes, I know some people rail against explicit lyrics, but that says nothing of other forms of music. Let's not get pedantic here.
Also, referring to 1,000,000,000 as a "psychological barrier" is kind of a strange term. It doesn't block our thought processes. Calling it a "symbolic mile-stone" might be more appropriate.