All kidding aside, I'd say that the biggest issue that I have with it is the lack of WPA support for the wireless. They *really* ought to do something about that ASAP. Given what I've heard about WEP, I don't think I'd feel comfortable advising anyone to leave their router on that setting; and turning on and off is a PITA (as well as being a minor security hole for the duration).
Would it be possible to include this capability with a firmware upgrade, or will it need new hardware (in which case us existing owners are out of luck)?
Seriously. The DS Lite is beautiful. I feel about mine the same way less dorky people feel about their iPods. The original DS was way too easy to dismiss as a plasticky child-oriented toy. I saw it, and kind of liked the idea, but in retrospect that was one of the things putting me off. Along with the release of games such as Dr.Kawashima and Big Brain Academy, the DS Lite's improved styling was probably responsible for making me reconsider. Superficial, sure, but I'm sure a lot of people felt that way too.
Anyway, I agree, the Lite looks great; I especially like the dual-layer casing. I'll even say (as I guy) that the pink one actually looks pretty nice. (Given how much I loathe most pink electronics- including the pink PS2 and PSPs- this may sound odd, but I think it's the styling combined with use of a paler pink- hot pink is fugly).
In its defence, the old Doctor Who episodes fitted a 25-minute time slot versus 45 minutes for the new ones. When you take into account title sequences and inter-programme filler, and recap footage from previous episodes (sometimes quite long) that's roughly twice as long.
Also, some of the new ones sometimes split a story over two episodes; that's equivalent to four old episodes, the standard story length. Yes, I know they did quite a lot of 6-episode stories in the 1970s (before my time); I've seen them, and they're too long. I believe they started doing that to save money on sets etc. when they went to colour.
No, the show was always called "Doctor Who" from the very beginning (go to YouTube and search for "Doctor Who title sequence", it's interesting if nothing else). It'd be a pretty silly excuse anyway. Personally, I don't think it's that big a deal unless it's causing confusion.
The biggest thing that grates for me about the new series is the self-conscious comic-bookishness feel of the whole thing at times; even worse (and something I loathe) is when it descends into outright comedy. Sure, Doctor Who was frequently witty, but there's a difference between funny and witty lines and comedy. Ditto the feeling that it's not taking itself seriously. For all that Dr.Who could be cheesy and camp at times, for all that there may have been some dodgy acting (probably down to time constraints) and the actors/producers/directors not taking it too seriously behind the scenes, you at least got the impression that they tried to play it straight. Well, until near the end of the original run, anyway.
Jon Pertwee himself said that the original series suffered towards the end of its life (in the late 80s) when it seemed to stop taking itself seriously; some of the earlier Sylvester McCoy stuff was downright camp and stupid, and it annoyed me at the time (not that it was really McCoy's fault). Looking back now, it seems that they'd started pulling out of the kitsch morass by the final season, but then the bastards axed it. Ironic that I thought that Survival was the best Dr.Who story I'd seen for ages at the time, but didn't realise it would be the last one...
Anyway, there are plenty of good aspects about the new series too. Apart from the obvious technical improvements, whether you like them or not, the new series has also managed to be emotionally affecting in ways that the old one never was (e.g. Rose's dad), and... sometimes it's gratingly awful, sometimes it's very good.
What would you do - would you have them starve, or pick up the _only_ good paying job available to you? Are we talking about starvation here?
Ethics and ideals are fine and good. Regardless of ethics and ideals, basic self-preservation would dissuade me from having anything to do with the Russian mafia.
I'll probably download the series some time in the future (new and old) but House is still better. I still can't buy Hugh Laurie's American accent, but apparently all the real Americans thought it sounded convincing, so I guess it probably has more to do with his typecasting in my mind...
At the risk of being labelled a troll, let me ask the question; are you sure that you're not just buying less music because you're getting older? It's a fairly general trend; everything else being equal, I doubt a 40 year old is going to buy as much music as an 18 year old.
Scientific American did an article 3 years back on "The Tyranny of Choice". The original article isn't available for free online, but there's a summary and some discussion here.
sad. these are no script kiddies here. these are smart blokes. and they are also doomed to a life under the thumb of men a thousand times more evil than their devilish and brillaint exploits ever could be Can't say I have too much sympathy. They may be genius programmers, but it doesn't take more than a shred of common sense for anyone to figure out what you said for themselves. Or maybe they were blinded by their greed.... whatever, fuck 'em.
I guess the major flaw would be that I could write code and report it ? That had occurred to me; the reward, however, would likely not be enough to warrant writing a piece of genuinely new code.
If the case was genuine and one guy had written all the code, he would be getting paid for writing the code (by Mr. Big, presumably) *and* for blowing the lid on the whole thing (by the AV company). If someone writes the code for use by themselves, they either have to report it before it becomes prominent (and hence they don't make much money from the use of the code), or if they wait too long the AV companies figure out the info for themselves first, and they don't get paid.
Basically, though, this idea operates under the premise that there is more than one person involved (preferably many), and that this individual stands to gain by giving the game away.
...to the problem of AV companies not picking them up; offer a large-ish reward for information, and have someone involved tell the AV companies about the trojan as soon as possible. It only needs one relatively unimportant person (coder peon?) to blab and give the game away, so long as they're assured of having their identity kept secret.
I'm sure there are a million flaws in this idea, but it's a start.
As such, there is no way for ISPs to prevent their systems being used for copyright infringement but to prevent all use, thus destroying the internet. Yep; I honestly don't see how this can be implemented and enforced without shutting down all communications channels, software (including development), etc, to a ludicruous degree... or alternately bankrupting those companies involved through legal action.
I can see a large number of people in the industry *not* wanting this to go through, and (if what I've read is a fair picture), I don't see that it's really in many *anyone's* interest when the consequences are taken into account.
So reasonable, in fact, that it's amazing that Sony got into this pickle in the first place. Stringer has only been CEO since mid-2005; Nobuyuki Idei was the CEO before that, and you can bet there was very little that could be changed by then that wouldn't have ended up simply adding to the cost or losing the money that had already been sunk.
Nice try at FUD. I work with 3,000 Mac (Education) and we've encountered ZERO problems connecting to our Wi-Fi. I assume you intended replying to a different post to the one you *actually* replied to. At any rate, what's the feelgood (but equally false) opposite of FUD? This smacks of it, because you've given us an unsubstantiated (and suspiciously vague) claim and as an AC, we can't even judge your credibility via your posting history.
There isn't even enough detail to speculate on the reasons that you supposedly had such a smooth ride. But that's assuming that you didn't just make it all up in the first place.
Steve Jobs has a cave under his house? OMG.... let me guess, he also has a faithful butler, teenage male sidekick with whom he has a totally platonic relationship, weird looking black car and a reinforced suit with sculptured abs and nipples?
We'll know something strange is going on when rumours of Jobs going out with Vicki Vale appear in the press.
Now I don't have to cruise through neighborhoods to pick up access points to get into then commit crimes, I can just check the internet! And if anyone wants to know who carried out the crime, there's a nice log of your search from an IP probably linked to you.
I had the opportunity to be the first in our company to employ T2000s I hope that they're better than T-1000s; those liquid-metal bastards kept killing my other sysadmins and wasting time on the net (apparently obsessing over some chick called Sarah Connor, what is it with her?!).
'Course, the irony is that any similarity to 2001's HAL ("I'm sorry Dave") was purely coincidental; half the dialogue was actually stolen from Red Dwarf, and the rest was twisted to fit; "Dave" was meant to be Lister, and it was just meant to sound like some generic boss:-)
Hmm, maybe you got a dubbed U.S. version, I distinctly remember the line being: "That'll teach you to be breadbaskets" Nah, "breadbaskets" (which I took to mean Rimmer was accusing *them* of being mad after they humoured him) didn't fit so well in this context, because the conversation wasn't a straight lift.
Just imagine the new employee first day I can see this whole process being abused by somewhat amoral bosses:-
Boss (on telephone to sysadmin in data centre): "I'm sorry Dave, but your recent conduct just hasn't been acceptable. I've decided to invoke the disciplinary procedure, and having discussed this with Mr. Flibble we've decided that this warrants 2 hours of W.O.O." Sysadmin: "What's W.O.O.?" Boss: "With... out... oxygen. No oxygen for 2 hours. That'll teach
you to be a git."
the bootleg vendors were quite knowledgable about their goods and would discuss the pros and cons of Excel vs Lotus, for instance Wouldn't it be ironic if the pirates were giving better customer support than the big companies with their do-not-deviate-from-the-script-and-keep-the-call-u nder-10-minutes peons?
Maybe so; but I was thinking specifically of Sao Paulo (rather than Brazil in general) and that has a notorious reputation for inequality. Rest of Brazil? Yep; I'm quite happy to believe that there's a healthy middle-class there, it's not that I ever thought of it as North Korea...
they go shopping at Carrefour (the one I was talking about had a defective last "r", thus converting the shop into a Carrefou or Crazy Car) Ha ha ha:-)
You're downloading from the wrong sites, man, or you live somewhere where bandwidth is too meager or expensive. You should be downloading the full, ripped DVDs over a few nights. It's not like you're going to bank the bandwidth that you don't use. For 50 cents to a dollar? I'd skip the hassle of making sure I find a legit copy, downloading it, leaving my computer on over a few nights, using up a portion of my bandwidth and (possibly) burning it. Sure, it's still not that big a deal, but a dollar is hardly a lot of money either.
I live in Sao Paulo, Brazil. We have dozens of "physical pirates", and I think they are doing pretty well To be honest, my mental image of Sao Paulo (based on what I've heard and read) is somewhere where people are either
(a) Humungously rich, and could afford to buy three or four diamond-encrusted solid-gold genuine Windows Vista Ultimate install disks, simply using the spare change they found down the backs of their sofas, or are
(b) Mindbogglingly poor, living in slums, and would need to save up for a year to buy one of those 99-cent calculators.
Okay; I'm exaggerating, but not by that much. Sao Paulo has been called the most unequal place in the world, and I would have assumed that people would either have more than enough money to easily afford non-pirated software, or would be too poor to afford the computer to run it on, whether or not it was genuine.
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Would it be possible to include this capability with a firmware upgrade, or will it need new hardware (in which case us existing owners are out of luck)?
Anyway, I agree, the Lite looks great; I especially like the dual-layer casing. I'll even say (as I guy) that the pink one actually looks pretty nice. (Given how much I loathe most pink electronics- including the pink PS2 and PSPs- this may sound odd, but I think it's the styling combined with use of a paler pink- hot pink is fugly).
In its defence, the old Doctor Who episodes fitted a 25-minute time slot versus 45 minutes for the new ones. When you take into account title sequences and inter-programme filler, and recap footage from previous episodes (sometimes quite long) that's roughly twice as long.
Also, some of the new ones sometimes split a story over two episodes; that's equivalent to four old episodes, the standard story length. Yes, I know they did quite a lot of 6-episode stories in the 1970s (before my time); I've seen them, and they're too long. I believe they started doing that to save money on sets etc. when they went to colour.
No, the show was always called "Doctor Who" from the very beginning (go to YouTube and search for "Doctor Who title sequence", it's interesting if nothing else). It'd be a pretty silly excuse anyway. Personally, I don't think it's that big a deal unless it's causing confusion.
The biggest thing that grates for me about the new series is the self-conscious comic-bookishness feel of the whole thing at times; even worse (and something I loathe) is when it descends into outright comedy. Sure, Doctor Who was frequently witty, but there's a difference between funny and witty lines and comedy. Ditto the feeling that it's not taking itself seriously. For all that Dr.Who could be cheesy and camp at times, for all that there may have been some dodgy acting (probably down to time constraints) and the actors/producers/directors not taking it too seriously behind the scenes, you at least got the impression that they tried to play it straight. Well, until near the end of the original run, anyway.
Jon Pertwee himself said that the original series suffered towards the end of its life (in the late 80s) when it seemed to stop taking itself seriously; some of the earlier Sylvester McCoy stuff was downright camp and stupid, and it annoyed me at the time (not that it was really McCoy's fault). Looking back now, it seems that they'd started pulling out of the kitsch morass by the final season, but then the bastards axed it. Ironic that I thought that Survival was the best Dr.Who story I'd seen for ages at the time, but didn't realise it would be the last one...
Anyway, there are plenty of good aspects about the new series too. Apart from the obvious technical improvements, whether you like them or not, the new series has also managed to be emotionally affecting in ways that the old one never was (e.g. Rose's dad), and... sometimes it's gratingly awful, sometimes it's very good.
At the risk of being labelled a troll, let me ask the question; are you sure that you're not just buying less music because you're getting older? It's a fairly general trend; everything else being equal, I doubt a 40 year old is going to buy as much music as an 18 year old.
Scientific American did an article 3 years back on "The Tyranny of Choice". The original article isn't available for free online, but there's a summary and some discussion here.
If the case was genuine and one guy had written all the code, he would be getting paid for writing the code (by Mr. Big, presumably) *and* for blowing the lid on the whole thing (by the AV company). If someone writes the code for use by themselves, they either have to report it before it becomes prominent (and hence they don't make much money from the use of the code), or if they wait too long the AV companies figure out the info for themselves first, and they don't get paid.
Basically, though, this idea operates under the premise that there is more than one person involved (preferably many), and that this individual stands to gain by giving the game away.
...to the problem of AV companies not picking them up; offer a large-ish reward for information, and have someone involved tell the AV companies about the trojan as soon as possible. It only needs one relatively unimportant person (coder peon?) to blab and give the game away, so long as they're assured of having their identity kept secret.
I'm sure there are a million flaws in this idea, but it's a start.
I can see a large number of people in the industry *not* wanting this to go through, and (if what I've read is a fair picture), I don't see that it's really in many *anyone's* interest when the consequences are taken into account.
There isn't even enough detail to speculate on the reasons that you supposedly had such a smooth ride. But that's assuming that you didn't just make it all up in the first place.
We'll know something strange is going on when rumours of Jobs going out with Vicki Vale appear in the press.
'Course, the irony is that any similarity to 2001's HAL ("I'm sorry Dave") was purely coincidental; half the dialogue was actually stolen from Red Dwarf, and the rest was twisted to fit; "Dave" was meant to be Lister, and it was just meant to sound like some generic boss :-)
Boss (on telephone to sysadmin in data centre): "I'm sorry Dave, but your recent conduct just hasn't been acceptable. I've decided to invoke the disciplinary procedure, and having discussed this with Mr. Flibble we've decided that this warrants 2 hours of W.O.O."
Sysadmin: "What's W.O.O.?"
Boss: "With
(a) Humungously rich, and could afford to buy three or four diamond-encrusted solid-gold genuine Windows Vista Ultimate install disks, simply using the spare change they found down the backs of their sofas, or are
(b) Mindbogglingly poor, living in slums, and would need to save up for a year to buy one of those 99-cent calculators.
Okay; I'm exaggerating, but not by that much. Sao Paulo has been called the most unequal place in the world, and I would have assumed that people would either have more than enough money to easily afford non-pirated software, or would be too poor to afford the computer to run it on, whether or not it was genuine.