backwards compatibility would become an immediate issue if the 360 games stopped selling or really slumped in sales. Otherwise, why should they worry about it if they're making money? After all, earning a profit to M$ is customer satisfaction, because if customers weren't satisfied, they wouldn't be buying more games still, right?/end of work day cynicism dump complete
I predict a huge smug cloud killing everyone at Microsoft, because there will be countless support calls like this: user: "but it's broken!" m$: "well, you clicked the proceed 50 times, so you must have meant to do it, not our problem! smuggity smug!"
My dad got his first rifle at age 10. Had his first smoke then, too. This was typical for kids in his neighborhood, which was a suburb, not the ghetto. That's what kids were up to before tv and video games, so obviously stopping games so we can get back to owning real rifles and smoking is a priority!
It just needs voice-controlled power supply, so you can say "jack on" , and of course, "jack off"! There are just so many ways to work that phrase in if you're using these computers.
They may have had a special deal at Target/WalMart to sell them early specifically with no fanfare, to try to get some of the super fans a chance to get one before the main stampede. That way, they don't get that backlash like the whole "systems all sold out in 2 seconds and i didn't get a chance to get one! sux0rz!" of yore.
I'm sorry, but anyone who is even partially capable of swinging a bat could put a lot of people either in the hospital or 6 feet under in this activity. I don't really see how it helps you release agression anymore than beating up on inanimate objects... it isn't about "feeling something" if you wake up in the hospital with a broken head!
So no one else suspends work to do something else intensely for a short time as a competition/etc. Let's make a short list: semi-pro (or even pro in some sports) athletes. touring artisans. olympians. the peace corps. So yes, lots of other people do something like a "hack"athon, for their chosen area of interest.
Yeah, but look who stole the spreadsheet. It's one thing if you catch a known criminal engaging in the activity they're infamous for. It's quite a different story to catch someone denouncing said activity engaged in the very same proposition they stand against. Back in the Wild West(tm), "them was (gun)fighting words".
I would prefer to at least know the things "you" (microsoft, etc. whoever) know that are definitely broken features of the product. I'd like to see "You can't do this, but here's the workaround" and put that info in some kinda place. Programs used to come with user manuals that told exactly how to do things. Now they pretty much don't come with that stuff, which means I should be able to do anything? Nope, some stuff won't work, but no one told me the Proper(tm) way to do it, so I have to go spend another hr on the internet looking it up. That's broken as hell! Just tell me how to do it the first time.
Also, the scope of the bugs that exist is super-wide now. There were always some kinda errors in a program that are weird, but main features being broken (especially becoming broken by other installs from same company) is just not acceptable. Sure, a "buffer overflow that is really complex to implement" probably matters to me, but way less than seeing "windows media cant find codec" on a WMV video I need to watch for class in a school lab, on a PC that I can't install anything on.
I think we need a few more probes than 2 in order to determine what the shape is. We poke 2 holes in outer space, and because one hits sooner, we are already swapping out one static shape for another... what if it just changes shape all over the place (albeit slightly)? Granted, it's not high on the priority list, but the caveat that we'd need a bunch more probes to determine a rough shape from first contact radio information.
From TFA: Beta 2 is a good looking operating system with a number of new features, which will be familiar to you if you've played with recent versions of Apple's OS X.
Or, in other words, features that were lifted/copied/etc. from OS X. It looks a lot like certain Linux desktops I've seen with all those sidebar applets... can't imagine what kinda hardware spec you'd really need to keep all that crap running. Can you even imagine what "sidebar" spyware will do to systems? Probably inescapable installs of pole dancers and casino crap... I rue the day!
When you look at that machine, imagine a little kid in a third world country using it... to spam and scam the crap out of us! After all, with the spam/scam market so lucrative, putting a machine like this in the hands of someone desperate for money is like handing a book of matches to a pyromaniac. Sure, matches aren't dangerous by themselves, but what are the circumstances here? If I can't afford a 100 dollar computer, I probably have trouble affording much of anything... and likely would be desperate enough to scam/spam if I knew I'd get some cash for it.
1) they have a picture 9 km away, from ABOVE, of a nuclear plant taken with the imager. So, is it hooked up to a satellite, or a very high-flying plane?
2) I have a method that can detect a running nuclear plant from miles away - it's called "look". If I "look" and steam is coming out of the cooling towers, then it's running!
"We are not smarter than any other enterprise in terms of knowing how to address security. We are in the same boat as everyone else," he [Estberg] added.
They better be! The producer of the most widely used operating system admits it doesn't know more about how to address security than any other enterprise? I guess we can expect Vista to have horrendous security issues as well then. When will they learn more about security, if they don't know more than the average enterprise as of now? What version (if any) of Windows must we wait for?
The general rule I apply is that it's fair use if you're making an argument and need to cite sources, i.e. an academic paper, etc. However, if you're posting "THIS IS COOL" and then you post the entire contents, that's copyright violation. In that case, just link to it!
People who care about learning, history, etc. will eventually tire of as much video gaming/tv/etc and turn to books. As for everyone else, let them have fun, tv, games or otherwise. After all, plenty of people read The Da Vinci Code and were dense enough to think that it was fact or something, I don't even know where to start with that, but reading books doesn't mean you must be a genius.
So basically they'll take off all the interesting stuff, and then make you buy it later? Let's hope Sony doesn't start selling cars... they'd probably sell them for $2000 new, engine, seats, transmission, and wheels extra.
I don't see any big deal with recording all data I/O at AT&T and handing it directly to the National Security Agency. After all, if they have to listen to all my conversations in order to prove I'm not a terrorist, I don't see what the---
***WOOP WOOP WOOP! Red flag word used! (Queue NSA goons smashing through my windows)***
provided it's at least 10 years old. The newer stuff just doesn't stand out from the fray very well, especially stereo-wise, since high-end companies are offering entry level equipment at prices competitive with practically any component system, even Sony.
The graphic on the side says that perhaps just over 1/2 of emails are understood + interpreted correctly, compared with 3/4 of phone calls. So about 1 in 4 communications by phone are misunderstood? It's no wonder we are all so stressed out, if 25% of the time you're on the phone with someone, they don't get what you're talking about!
Good point, I suppose it hardly matters who gets elected if you can just support their post-election political bids to get your special interests catered to.
Why go to the trouble to rig a machine when you can just bribe the electoral college? Wouldn't that be a much more effective way to swing an election, since they are the ones that actually do the voting?
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backwards compatibility would become an immediate issue if the 360 games stopped selling or really slumped in sales. Otherwise, why should they worry about it if they're making money? After all, earning a profit to M$ is customer satisfaction, because if customers weren't satisfied, they wouldn't be buying more games still, right? /end of work day cynicism dump complete
I predict a huge smug cloud killing everyone at Microsoft, because there will be countless support calls like this:
user: "but it's broken!"
m$: "well, you clicked the proceed 50 times, so you must have meant to do it, not our problem! smuggity smug!"
My dad got his first rifle at age 10. Had his first smoke then, too. This was typical for kids in his neighborhood, which was a suburb, not the ghetto. That's what kids were up to before tv and video games, so obviously stopping games so we can get back to owning real rifles and smoking is a priority!
It just needs voice-controlled power supply, so you can say "jack on" , and of course, "jack off"! There are just so many ways to work that phrase in if you're using these computers.
They may have had a special deal at Target/WalMart to sell them early specifically with no fanfare, to try to get some of the super fans a chance to get one before the main stampede. That way, they don't get that backlash like the whole "systems all sold out in 2 seconds and i didn't get a chance to get one! sux0rz!" of yore.
I'm sorry, but anyone who is even partially capable of swinging a bat could put a lot of people either in the hospital or 6 feet under in this activity. I don't really see how it helps you release agression anymore than beating up on inanimate objects... it isn't about "feeling something" if you wake up in the hospital with a broken head!
So no one else suspends work to do something else intensely for a short time as a competition/etc. Let's make a short list: semi-pro (or even pro in some sports) athletes. touring artisans. olympians. the peace corps. So yes, lots of other people do something like a "hack"athon, for their chosen area of interest.
Yeah, but look who stole the spreadsheet. It's one thing if you catch a known criminal engaging in the activity they're infamous for. It's quite a different story to catch someone denouncing said activity engaged in the very same proposition they stand against. Back in the Wild West(tm), "them was (gun)fighting words".
I would prefer to at least know the things "you" (microsoft, etc. whoever) know that are definitely broken features of the product. I'd like to see "You can't do this, but here's the workaround" and put that info in some kinda place. Programs used to come with user manuals that told exactly how to do things. Now they pretty much don't come with that stuff, which means I should be able to do anything? Nope, some stuff won't work, but no one told me the Proper(tm) way to do it, so I have to go spend another hr on the internet looking it up. That's broken as hell! Just tell me how to do it the first time.
Also, the scope of the bugs that exist is super-wide now. There were always some kinda errors in a program that are weird, but main features being broken (especially becoming broken by other installs from same company) is just not acceptable. Sure, a "buffer overflow that is really complex to implement" probably matters to me, but way less than seeing "windows media cant find codec" on a WMV video I need to watch for class in a school lab, on a PC that I can't install anything on.
I think we need a few more probes than 2 in order to determine what the shape is. We poke 2 holes in outer space, and because one hits sooner, we are already swapping out one static shape for another... what if it just changes shape all over the place (albeit slightly)? Granted, it's not high on the priority list, but the caveat that we'd need a bunch more probes to determine a rough shape from first contact radio information.
Yeah, I see that now, my bad! No need for someone like me to enter into troll territory, I just shouldn't attempt humor before 10:30 AM.
From TFA:
Beta 2 is a good looking operating system with a number of new features, which will be familiar to you if you've played with recent versions of Apple's OS X.
Or, in other words, features that were lifted/copied/etc. from OS X. It looks a lot like certain Linux desktops I've seen with all those sidebar applets... can't imagine what kinda hardware spec you'd really need to keep all that crap running. Can you even imagine what "sidebar" spyware will do to systems? Probably inescapable installs of pole dancers and casino crap... I rue the day!
I'm not as scared of them as other things, of course, but I mean it has to at least cross your mind when you're distributing them.
When you look at that machine, imagine a little kid in a third world country using it... to spam and scam the crap out of us! After all, with the spam/scam market so lucrative, putting a machine like this in the hands of someone desperate for money is like handing a book of matches to a pyromaniac. Sure, matches aren't dangerous by themselves, but what are the circumstances here? If I can't afford a 100 dollar computer, I probably have trouble affording much of anything... and likely would be desperate enough to scam/spam if I knew I'd get some cash for it.
TFA gives a couple of weird things:
1) they have a picture 9 km away, from ABOVE, of a nuclear plant taken with the imager. So, is it hooked up to a satellite, or a very high-flying plane?
2) I have a method that can detect a running nuclear plant from miles away - it's called "look". If I "look" and steam is coming out of the cooling towers, then it's running!
Once more from TFA:
"We are not smarter than any other enterprise in terms of knowing how to address security. We are in the same boat as everyone else," he [Estberg] added.
They better be! The producer of the most widely used operating system admits it doesn't know more about how to address security than any other enterprise? I guess we can expect Vista to have horrendous security issues as well then. When will they learn more about security, if they don't know more than the average enterprise as of now? What version (if any) of Windows must we wait for?
The general rule I apply is that it's fair use if you're making an argument and need to cite sources, i.e. an academic paper, etc. However, if you're posting "THIS IS COOL" and then you post the entire contents, that's copyright violation. In that case, just link to it!
People who care about learning, history, etc. will eventually tire of as much video gaming/tv/etc and turn to books. As for everyone else, let them have fun, tv, games or otherwise. After all, plenty of people read The Da Vinci Code and were dense enough to think that it was fact or something, I don't even know where to start with that, but reading books doesn't mean you must be a genius.
So basically they'll take off all the interesting stuff, and then make you buy it later? Let's hope Sony doesn't start selling cars... they'd probably sell them for $2000 new, engine, seats, transmission, and wheels extra.
I don't see any big deal with recording all data I/O at AT&T and handing it directly to the National Security Agency. After all, if they have to listen to all my conversations in order to prove I'm not a terrorist, I don't see what the---
***WOOP WOOP WOOP! Red flag word used! (Queue NSA goons smashing through my windows)***
provided it's at least 10 years old. The newer stuff just doesn't stand out from the fray very well, especially stereo-wise, since high-end companies are offering entry level equipment at prices competitive with practically any component system, even Sony.
The graphic on the side says that perhaps just over 1/2 of emails are understood + interpreted correctly, compared with 3/4 of phone calls. So about 1 in 4 communications by phone are misunderstood? It's no wonder we are all so stressed out, if 25% of the time you're on the phone with someone, they don't get what you're talking about!
Good point, I suppose it hardly matters who gets elected if you can just support their post-election political bids to get your special interests catered to.
Why go to the trouble to rig a machine when you can just bribe the electoral college? Wouldn't that be a much more effective way to swing an election, since they are the ones that actually do the voting?
I have my IBM PC XT overclocked to 5 GHz, unfortunately it costs 50 KiloWatts to run, but on the plus side I can use it in my kiln to cure pottery.