Interlaced -> Progressive isn't quite the same thing as actually rendering the game in 720p, which is what Microsoft is doing with the original xbox games on the xbox 360. Original Xbox games actually look noticably better on the 360 because of the increased resolution, texture sharpening and FSAA that the Xbox 360 does.
Of course if all the licensing issues weren't there and the hardware was more compatible with the old generation Microsoft most likely would of taken the easy way out of rendering the original xbox games exactly how they were rendered before.
Microsoft wouldn't even talk about Backwards Compatibility on the Xbox 360 until the console was just months away from launch, and even then they said that it would only be the top games, (Halo, Halo 2, Knights of the Old Republic, Fable, etc.) which they did deliver on.
They did say that their goal was to get every game working but they never said it would (or when it would) happen--- unlike Sony who has taunted Microsoft repeatedly over backwards compatibility. It's hubris and hypocrisy at its finest.
It's going to be a lot harder to find a bug that will cause a file reader to overflow and execute code then it is to exploit a "feature" in Windows to automatically execute code on removable drives...
However unlike most "news" programs, which contain less and less real news each year, The Daily Show isn't afraid to air clips of politicians at their most embarassing, which for some of the congress critters like Alaskan Senator and General Dickhead Ted Stevens, is practically every single time they open their mouths.
They also aren't afraid to put clips of what politicians are saying now and what they said two years ago contradicting themselves, unlike most "news" programs.
So despite being a comedy show, The Daily Show has much more power to keep politicians on their toes then regular news programs because they don't have the taboos of regular news programs.
I watch three TV Shows for my "television news," The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Any time I watch any other "news" program I find myself staring in disbelief at how far they have fallen.
I believe part of the deal DirecTV and Tivo recently struck to continue supporting the DirecTivo units included a patent sharing agreement.
However I haven't heard of one person that had a DirecTivo that "upgraded" to the new DirecTV DVRs that was happy with it, and I've heard of more then a few that dropped DirecTV altogether because of it.
War of 1812, Started & Ended: Democratic-Republican Mexican-American War: Started & Ended: Deomcrat Civil War: Started & Ended: Republican* Spanish-American War: Started & Ended: Republican World War I: Started & Ended: Democrat World War II: Started & Ended: Democrat Korean War: Started: Democrat Ended**: Republican Vietnam War: Started: Democrat Ended: Republican Gulf War I: Started & Ended : Republican Afghanistan: Started: Republican Gulf War II: Started: Republican
Republicans: Started 5, Ended 5 Democrats: Started 5, Ended 3
* was actually started while a Democrat was in office, but over a "Black Republican" (Lincoln) being elected.
** technically hasn't ended, this is from the time of the cease-fire.
So techinically both parties have started the same number of wars, Republicans have ended more though. Of course this doesn't take into account political realities at the time, ie. The Democratic controlled congress refusing to continue to fund Vietnam, etc, this only looks at who was in office at the time. If you want you could also count the Cold War as starting under a Democrat (either Wilson, in 1917 when Russia went communist, or 1940s under FDR or Truman when the Cold War began in earnest) and ended under a Republican (George Bush the First) which would knock the Democrats up in the "Starting Wars" column...
Second, what makes you think the government is going to care about how big the 'leap' from an RFID-equipped passport to the same information on an RFID chip seems to you? For one thing, this is currently being discussed for immigrants, not citizens. Second, it's voluntary. You don't want to get chipped, you don't have to...and you don't have to work in our country, either. When it comes for citizens, it will be equally voluntary, but getting along without an RFID chip will become increasingly difficult, just as it's nearly impossible to function in society today without valid ID.
Yes. It will be equally voluntary for citizens. You don't want to be chipped, when you don't have to be a citizen either.
EXCEPT for the fact that Sony has a PATENT on this... It's much more then a simple rumor. Does them having a patent mean they're going to use it? No. Does it mean that they've thought about using it? Definately.
As an Xbox 360 owner I couldn't give a flying fuck about the HD DVD drive. I don't want one and I have no use what so ever of one. But I'm glad Microsoft had the foresight of not making me pay an extra $200 to have one.
I'm a student and I worked for Apple for a year (software tester intern)
All-in-all it cost be $1300 for my 12" Powerbook (Employee discount, yay!) and then another $500 to get all my apps legally with various student discounts and what not (Adobe CS, MS Office, iWork, etc.). Legal was very important because I was working at Apple and they don't take software piracy lightly. For a PC it would of been half that. Not to mention I already have licenses for most of that stuff on the PC side.
I guess for a user that only uses Office, Email and a Web Browser the transition wouldn't be as bad, but its still painful on the bank acocunt, and I'd anticipate a number of "switchers" sticking on the PC side because they haven't gotten all their apps on Mac OS yet. At which point, what is the point?
For Apple to really be successful with this I think there needs to be more emphasis on getting third-party vendors, especially Adobe, and Microsoft too for Office if they could swing it, but I doubt Microsoft would be willing, to package the Mac and Windows versions of a app in the same box. Then at least they could say "Well you already have the Mac versions of the Apps, so why don't you switch?"
Afterall there is precedence for formats simply not gaining traction. LaserDisk never got very popular, and most people have no reason what so ever to buy an HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player as they don't have an HDTV to go with it. So, why bother?
I have a 12" Powerbook for school-related stuff, and 3 homebuilt PCs sitting under my desk for gaming/server apps/whatever I feel like.
I love my Mac. For what it is its a great machine. And what it is is a stable reasonably secure platform where I don't have to worry about viruses or spyware mucking up my machine. All the Apps I need to use on that machine, Microsoft Office, Adobe CS, I have Mac versions of, and most importanly they are highly interoperable with the PC versions. I can take a Mac Office or Photoshop document and open it on a PC and vise-versa (this was not possible, or at least easy to do, back in the day). I don't want it run Windows Programs or Games because I don't need it to. It would distract from the purpose of the machine.
However Mac OS X implementing Win32 (really damn unlikely, but for the sake of argument lets assume it happens) doesn't necessarily mean it will have all the vulnerabilities of Windows. Afterall most exploits take advantage of bugs in various Windows Services, not usually things inherrant in the Win32 API. Add to that the much more robust security model of Mac OS X, largely thanks to its UNIX underpinnings, I don't think anyone would be running Windows apps with full privileges.
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For Vista.
You can still get problems moving along your copy of XP.
Interlaced -> Progressive isn't quite the same thing as actually rendering the game in 720p, which is what Microsoft is doing with the original xbox games on the xbox 360. Original Xbox games actually look noticably better on the 360 because of the increased resolution, texture sharpening and FSAA that the Xbox 360 does.
Of course if all the licensing issues weren't there and the hardware was more compatible with the old generation Microsoft most likely would of taken the easy way out of rendering the original xbox games exactly how they were rendered before.
What are you talking about?
Microsoft wouldn't even talk about Backwards Compatibility on the Xbox 360 until the console was just months away from launch, and even then they said that it would only be the top games, (Halo, Halo 2, Knights of the Old Republic, Fable, etc.) which they did deliver on.
They did say that their goal was to get every game working but they never said it would (or when it would) happen--- unlike Sony who has taunted Microsoft repeatedly over backwards compatibility. It's hubris and hypocrisy at its finest.
You're right. We should stop offering free sandwiches to the homeless.
Or free food at all.
And that charity thing. That just has to stop.
It's going to be a lot harder to find a bug that will cause a file reader to overflow and execute code then it is to exploit a "feature" in Windows to automatically execute code on removable drives...
See! You're onto something here! All we have to do is stop reporting the crime and it will all go away! That must be the solution!
They'd have to find an OSX virus to put on the Zune that would autoexecute by simply being attached to a Mac first...
Heck, lets go one step further. Lets not trust the SATA drive - who knows where that thing has been.
;)
If you've ever tried installing Windows XP or 2000 onto a SATA drive using the generic retail box CD you'd realize how close to reality this is
However unlike most "news" programs, which contain less and less real news each year, The Daily Show isn't afraid to air clips of politicians at their most embarassing, which for some of the congress critters like Alaskan Senator and General Dickhead Ted Stevens, is practically every single time they open their mouths.
They also aren't afraid to put clips of what politicians are saying now and what they said two years ago contradicting themselves, unlike most "news" programs.
So despite being a comedy show, The Daily Show has much more power to keep politicians on their toes then regular news programs because they don't have the taboos of regular news programs.
I watch three TV Shows for my "television news," The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Any time I watch any other "news" program I find myself staring in disbelief at how far they have fallen.
I believe part of the deal DirecTV and Tivo recently struck to continue supporting the DirecTivo units included a patent sharing agreement.
However I haven't heard of one person that had a DirecTivo that "upgraded" to the new DirecTV DVRs that was happy with it, and I've heard of more then a few that dropped DirecTV altogether because of it.
I actually was bored enough to look this up.
War of 1812, Started & Ended: Democratic-Republican
Mexican-American War: Started & Ended: Deomcrat
Civil War: Started & Ended: Republican*
Spanish-American War: Started & Ended: Republican
World War I: Started & Ended: Democrat
World War II: Started & Ended: Democrat
Korean War: Started: Democrat Ended**: Republican
Vietnam War: Started: Democrat Ended: Republican
Gulf War I: Started & Ended : Republican
Afghanistan: Started: Republican
Gulf War II: Started: Republican
Republicans: Started 5, Ended 5
Democrats: Started 5, Ended 3
* was actually started while a Democrat was in office, but over a "Black Republican" (Lincoln) being elected.
** technically hasn't ended, this is from the time of the cease-fire.
So techinically both parties have started the same number of wars, Republicans have ended more though. Of course this doesn't take into account political realities at the time, ie. The Democratic controlled congress refusing to continue to fund Vietnam, etc, this only looks at who was in office at the time. If you want you could also count the Cold War as starting under a Democrat (either Wilson, in 1917 when Russia went communist, or 1940s under FDR or Truman when the Cold War began in earnest) and ended under a Republican (George Bush the First) which would knock the Democrats up in the "Starting Wars" column...
StarForce at work!
Maybe if you could read you would see that the complaining was about VIA's driver, not Microsoft's.
And believe it or not Microsoft is the one to blame if they are logo certifying the hardware and/or drivers.
When I installed a SATA drive and started booting off it my win2k install's stability when down the tubes.
For the record I'm using a ECS KT-600A mobo with a VIA VT8237 sata raid controller.
I'm running Vista Beta 2 now on the same box with a driver from Microsoft and it is more stable then Win2k was with VIA's SATA driver.
Now that is sad.
Does Microsoft need to be doing more to ensure the quality of the drivers running on their operating system? You bet.
Yes. It will be equally voluntary for citizens. You don't want to be chipped, when you don't have to be a citizen either.
EXCEPT for the fact that Sony has a PATENT on this... It's much more then a simple rumor. Does them having a patent mean they're going to use it? No. Does it mean that they've thought about using it? Definately.
You are full of shit and obviously didn't go to school in the Bay Area.
Physical Violence against a teacher can be grounds for expulsion, and students have been expelled for threats of physical violence.
Bringing a knife to school can get you suspended and/or expelled.
As an Xbox 360 owner I couldn't give a flying fuck about the HD DVD drive. I don't want one and I have no use what so ever of one. But I'm glad Microsoft had the foresight of not making me pay an extra $200 to have one.
My G4 Powerbook as a GeForce FX5200...
This implies that SCO isn't already a swearword.
The obvious solution to this is to start using "Microsoft" as a swear word.
"What the Microsoft are you talking about?"
"Go Microsoft yourself."
"So I was Microsofting this chick the other day..." o.O
I'm a student and I worked for Apple for a year (software tester intern)
All-in-all it cost be $1300 for my 12" Powerbook (Employee discount, yay!) and then another $500 to get all my apps legally with various student discounts and what not (Adobe CS, MS Office, iWork, etc.). Legal was very important because I was working at Apple and they don't take software piracy lightly. For a PC it would of been half that. Not to mention I already have licenses for most of that stuff on the PC side.
I guess for a user that only uses Office, Email and a Web Browser the transition wouldn't be as bad, but its still painful on the bank acocunt, and I'd anticipate a number of "switchers" sticking on the PC side because they haven't gotten all their apps on Mac OS yet. At which point, what is the point?
For Apple to really be successful with this I think there needs to be more emphasis on getting third-party vendors, especially Adobe, and Microsoft too for Office if they could swing it, but I doubt Microsoft would be willing, to package the Mac and Windows versions of a app in the same box. Then at least they could say "Well you already have the Mac versions of the Apps, so why don't you switch?"
This implies that programming was ever cool, hip and interesting.
And what if say... neither format wins?
Does that mean both names suck?
Afterall there is precedence for formats simply not gaining traction. LaserDisk never got very popular, and most people have no reason what so ever to buy an HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player as they don't have an HDTV to go with it. So, why bother?
I have a 12" Powerbook for school-related stuff, and 3 homebuilt PCs sitting under my desk for gaming/server apps/whatever I feel like.
I love my Mac. For what it is its a great machine. And what it is is a stable reasonably secure platform where I don't have to worry about viruses or spyware mucking up my machine. All the Apps I need to use on that machine, Microsoft Office, Adobe CS, I have Mac versions of, and most importanly they are highly interoperable with the PC versions. I can take a Mac Office or Photoshop document and open it on a PC and vise-versa (this was not possible, or at least easy to do, back in the day). I don't want it run Windows Programs or Games because I don't need it to. It would distract from the purpose of the machine.
However Mac OS X implementing Win32 (really damn unlikely, but for the sake of argument lets assume it happens) doesn't necessarily mean it will have all the vulnerabilities of Windows. Afterall most exploits take advantage of bugs in various Windows Services, not usually things inherrant in the Win32 API. Add to that the much more robust security model of Mac OS X, largely thanks to its UNIX underpinnings, I don't think anyone would be running Windows apps with full privileges.