Tell that to all the browser makers who implement HTML and CSS. None of them have it 100% correct. Some of them get 100% on Acid 3 (I think anyway), but still that doesn't mean they follow 100% of the standard. I guess there's a difference between "Impossible to implement due to bad definition", and "implementable, but nobody has done it yet". However, I'm sure even Microsoft strays from their own standard in some way or another, so I can't see why they would hold another vendor at fault. Sure they can't possible know what "AutospaceLikeWord95" is actually supposed to do, but they can look at what MS Word does, and make a best guess.
I always played Doom and Doom2 with the keyboard only. I wasn't aware anybody played these games with a mouse. Later games like Quake where you could look up and down actually made much more sense with a mouse, but games like Doom, with no jumping, and only x-axis rotation weren't really complicated to require a mouse.
Hasn't OO.o started impletementing OOXML? I seem to remember that happening. Sure, it's nice to be philosphical and say that OOXML isn't a good standard, but when you're trying to get people to use your product, making it not read documents from MS Office isn't a good direction to be going in. Sure they may not be able to implement the whole thing, but does the US military require that the standard be implemented in full? How do they test for this?
But the ISO is also the one who approved ODF. So if ISO is no longer trustworthy, who is left to say what is a good standard. If the whole standards body has lost credibility, where can we go to find out which standards to really use? If a government is looking to mandate open standards in it's document formats, which standards body should they go to to ensure the standards chosen are actually standards?
Man was that awesome. I loved it when they replaced all the bad guys with Barney. This is the one thing that sets console and computer games apart. User mods give games a much longer lifetime, and help to make them well worth their money, without the original developers having to do any extra work. I did a few levels in Descent. That was quite a fun game to design levels in. The fact that it was 3D, without really being fully 3D as far as the internal game engine was concerned meant you could do some maps that couldn't exist in real life. Which is what made it so neat.
That's the problem with using a game controller for FPS. It's so not as good as the mouse that I just find it frustrating. Even if everyone else is on a level playing field, it's still really frustrating. It's so terrible to not be able to turn around in less than 3 seconds. That could almost be acceptable, if you had high accuracy aiming, but I find that the 1.5 cm range of movement between all out and not moving to be too small to be able to aim well quickly when there's someone else shooting at you. Anybody who thinks game controllers are well suited to FPS hasn't gotten to the point where they are efficient with a mouse.
Exactly. You can get a 500 GB hard disk for $100. Why not just use those for backup. At the cost of this holographic storage, you could buy 2 or 3 500 GB hard drives, and keep multiple copies just in case one died. Since you'd only be using them for backup, and they would actually get very little wear and tear, I would guess that it would be easy to have a hard drive last for 50 years.
They should put little metal badge on the bottom of the laptop that they engrave with an ID. And then solder that directly into the motherboard. Hopefully not in contact with anything else on the motherboard. Would make it pretty hard to remove without making the laptop look stolen. Would also make it hard to replace it with a different one without making it obvious to anybody opening the special plastic compartment around it that lets people easily verify that the serial number wasn't messed with.
Well, you could have an SSH server installed, so that when you get the IP address, you can start making all kinds of weird stuff happen on the computer. Maybe even have some scripts ready so you can take a picture of the guy with a built in webcam.
So a good solution would be to keep backups, make sure all sensitive info is encrypted, and ensure that you don't buy a laptop so expensive that you couldn't afford to replace it. I think that any of these systems probably cost more than they are worth.
It seems as though it does. I have flashblock. If I disable Javascript, the site looks fine. If I enable javascript, the site looks terrible until I click play on the 4 different flash objects. The first one that's clickable is the off to the right of the viewable area. So you have to scroll to play it.
The funny thing is, if you subscribe to the RSS feed using firefox, and then click on the resulting entries in your bookmarks, it takes you to the flash page. Wonderful.
It is updated. But since it never tells you what changed when you get an update, I was completely unaware of this. Maybe they fixed whatever it was in the WiiConnect 24 code that causes my wireless router to need rebooting if WiiConnect is left on for more than 5-6 hours. Although I'm sure that's more of a problem with my router than with the Wii.
No, but burying it in the manual isn't the right place to put this. A big yellow sticker with black writing directly on the power supply would probably be a much better idea. Especially considering most other power bricks that come with home electronics don't tend to need quite as much heating.
There's a difference between disregarding something you've read, and not reading it at all. How many people read their manual before hooking up the console to the TV?
My solution is to not get an xBox 360. I got a Wii, which stays pretty cool. Actually, it doesn't if you enable the always on internet connection, because the chip is still on, and the fan turns off. What I actually do, is leave WiiConnect on, so that the news and weather channels still work, but when I turn it off, I hold down the power button for 5 seconds so that it actually turns off.
You think that's bad? The Canadian gun registry cost $2 BILLION. All for a database to track who owns a gun. You could probably put together a similar application in a matter of weeks.
Except that the mounties specifically said that they weren't going to target file sharers, because they have much more important things to worry about.
It's also quite easy with most network cards to get them to use another MAC than what was originally on the card. You can basically assign whichever number you want as your MAC address.
That's where the term "soap opera" comes from. They used to play soap commercials during the breaks in those shows, so that the women advertising would buy the soap.
I say they should just skip all the broadcast TV, and just have the shows available for download on the interent. I've seen a couple show's available in this manner, but I think the price is all wrong. Usually about $2 an episode. A full season would come out to the same as most DVD seasons. If they brought it down to $0.50 an episode, they could get everyone downloading it, and then also buying the DVD set if they really liked the season, like people do already.
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Tell that to all the browser makers who implement HTML and CSS. None of them have it 100% correct. Some of them get 100% on Acid 3 (I think anyway), but still that doesn't mean they follow 100% of the standard. I guess there's a difference between "Impossible to implement due to bad definition", and "implementable, but nobody has done it yet". However, I'm sure even Microsoft strays from their own standard in some way or another, so I can't see why they would hold another vendor at fault. Sure they can't possible know what "AutospaceLikeWord95" is actually supposed to do, but they can look at what MS Word does, and make a best guess.
I always played Doom and Doom2 with the keyboard only. I wasn't aware anybody played these games with a mouse. Later games like Quake where you could look up and down actually made much more sense with a mouse, but games like Doom, with no jumping, and only x-axis rotation weren't really complicated to require a mouse.
Hasn't OO.o started impletementing OOXML? I seem to remember that happening. Sure, it's nice to be philosphical and say that OOXML isn't a good standard, but when you're trying to get people to use your product, making it not read documents from MS Office isn't a good direction to be going in. Sure they may not be able to implement the whole thing, but does the US military require that the standard be implemented in full? How do they test for this?
But the ISO is also the one who approved ODF. So if ISO is no longer trustworthy, who is left to say what is a good standard. If the whole standards body has lost credibility, where can we go to find out which standards to really use? If a government is looking to mandate open standards in it's document formats, which standards body should they go to to ensure the standards chosen are actually standards?
Man was that awesome. I loved it when they replaced all the bad guys with Barney. This is the one thing that sets console and computer games apart. User mods give games a much longer lifetime, and help to make them well worth their money, without the original developers having to do any extra work. I did a few levels in Descent. That was quite a fun game to design levels in. The fact that it was 3D, without really being fully 3D as far as the internal game engine was concerned meant you could do some maps that couldn't exist in real life. Which is what made it so neat.
The real problem is it only has a 30 day warranty. That`s worse than game consoles.
Real programmers use butterflies.
That's the problem with using a game controller for FPS. It's so not as good as the mouse that I just find it frustrating. Even if everyone else is on a level playing field, it's still really frustrating. It's so terrible to not be able to turn around in less than 3 seconds. That could almost be acceptable, if you had high accuracy aiming, but I find that the 1.5 cm range of movement between all out and not moving to be too small to be able to aim well quickly when there's someone else shooting at you. Anybody who thinks game controllers are well suited to FPS hasn't gotten to the point where they are efficient with a mouse.
Exactly. You can get a 500 GB hard disk for $100. Why not just use those for backup. At the cost of this holographic storage, you could buy 2 or 3 500 GB hard drives, and keep multiple copies just in case one died. Since you'd only be using them for backup, and they would actually get very little wear and tear, I would guess that it would be easy to have a hard drive last for 50 years.
I see you've played knifey spooney before.
They should put little metal badge on the bottom of the laptop that they engrave with an ID. And then solder that directly into the motherboard. Hopefully not in contact with anything else on the motherboard. Would make it pretty hard to remove without making the laptop look stolen. Would also make it hard to replace it with a different one without making it obvious to anybody opening the special plastic compartment around it that lets people easily verify that the serial number wasn't messed with.
Well, you could have an SSH server installed, so that when you get the IP address, you can start making all kinds of weird stuff happen on the computer. Maybe even have some scripts ready so you can take a picture of the guy with a built in webcam.
So a good solution would be to keep backups, make sure all sensitive info is encrypted, and ensure that you don't buy a laptop so expensive that you couldn't afford to replace it. I think that any of these systems probably cost more than they are worth.
It seems as though it does. I have flashblock. If I disable Javascript, the site looks fine. If I enable javascript, the site looks terrible until I click play on the 4 different flash objects. The first one that's clickable is the off to the right of the viewable area. So you have to scroll to play it.
The funny thing is, if you subscribe to the RSS feed using firefox, and then click on the resulting entries in your bookmarks, it takes you to the flash page. Wonderful.
It is updated. But since it never tells you what changed when you get an update, I was completely unaware of this. Maybe they fixed whatever it was in the WiiConnect 24 code that causes my wireless router to need rebooting if WiiConnect is left on for more than 5-6 hours. Although I'm sure that's more of a problem with my router than with the Wii.
You might also want to try playing Descent 3 on your computer using only the keyboard. It's equally frustrating to playing a FPS with a gamepad.
No, but burying it in the manual isn't the right place to put this. A big yellow sticker with black writing directly on the power supply would probably be a much better idea. Especially considering most other power bricks that come with home electronics don't tend to need quite as much heating.
There's a difference between disregarding something you've read, and not reading it at all. How many people read their manual before hooking up the console to the TV?
My solution is to not get an xBox 360. I got a Wii, which stays pretty cool. Actually, it doesn't if you enable the always on internet connection, because the chip is still on, and the fan turns off. What I actually do, is leave WiiConnect on, so that the news and weather channels still work, but when I turn it off, I hold down the power button for 5 seconds so that it actually turns off.
You think that's bad? The Canadian gun registry cost $2 BILLION. All for a database to track who owns a gun. You could probably put together a similar application in a matter of weeks.
Except that the mounties specifically said that they weren't going to target file sharers, because they have much more important things to worry about.
It's also quite easy with most network cards to get them to use another MAC than what was originally on the card. You can basically assign whichever number you want as your MAC address.
That's where the term "soap opera" comes from. They used to play soap commercials during the breaks in those shows, so that the women advertising would buy the soap.
I say they should just skip all the broadcast TV, and just have the shows available for download on the interent. I've seen a couple show's available in this manner, but I think the price is all wrong. Usually about $2 an episode. A full season would come out to the same as most DVD seasons. If they brought it down to $0.50 an episode, they could get everyone downloading it, and then also buying the DVD set if they really liked the season, like people do already.