Back when video games were a fairly new thing and CGI was amazing they made Tron. The visual style was impressive, especially given the use of hand tinting and other post processing effects. These days it's all too easy using CGI and other computer gadgetry.
There simply isn't any way that this sequel can stand out compared to all the other CGI fx laden films around. Unless of course they go for rotoscoping or similar as used in A Scanner Darkly.
He also had to jailbreak the phone to get into it.
That's pretty much the same as using an exploit to gain super user access to a computer. We all know there's root kits and scripts which make this easy.
Smarthones aren't all that secure, they typically all have some sort of boot loader which you can often use to read the contents of the flash.
Is this a shift from WIndows to Mac as well? Microsoft hasn't made a version of IE for the Mac in many years. A lot more Macs have been sold and IE 4 is too old and insecure to use on a Mac.
You do have to ask yourself why a 50 year old woman is creating fake myspace accounts and luring underage girls into discussing things. If it was a man doing this it would be called grooming.
True, but there's often a balance between having machines locked down and having them usable. This is where Windows often struggles, some software just doesn't behave in a locked down environment.
When you buy some Windows software you can never quite be sure what you need to have locked down, activeX can be a risk but block the registration of activeX controls and you can prevent the software working.
I've never understood why CD and DVD sales leap after the death of a performer. Surely your praise and money are most useful while the performer is still alive?
Obviously with the huge amount of media coverage many people will discover his music and buy it.
It's a tragic loss, but then like many pioneers and super famous artists of the 70s and 80s it becomes hard to produce amazing music. Kraftwerk are a good example of this, massively influential but electronic music is so mainstream they can't do anything that stands out.
I thought the whole point of security is to suffer a bit of inconvenience in the name of being secure.
It is a really pain in the behind to have to unlock your car and put the key in the ignition. It's really annoying when you lose your keys, so remove the key and locks? nope, didn't think so.
Password masking stops people stealing your password when you are unaware of being watched. There are ways around the inconvenience of masking, type your password into notepad and then paste it into the login window.
Snow Leopard's upgrade price is very small. So I don't see Windows being comparable. $29 is a lot less than Microsoft is charging and both Snow Leopard and Windows 7 seem to be tweaked versions of the last version.
I'd sooner have secrecy than having to listen to Balmer and co whinging about Google and talking about suing Linux vendors all the time.
Apple is pretty good in the sense that they don't appear to criticise the competition (or if they do it doesn't make the news). They get on with what they do best.
It wasn't hard, there's a reset pin on many of the C64 ports, just connect that to GND and the C64 resets.
Of course there were many games that managed to prevent this somehow. They also managed to prevent copy cartridges like Datel's Action Replay and Trilogic's Freeze Frame from taking control.
Indeed, GCC just isn't as good at producing fast code as Microsoft or Intels compilers. This is probably the price you pay for having a fairly portable compiler such as GCC.
The Wii was the only true next gen system due to its control system. All that Sony and Microsoft are interested in right now is playing catch up.
It was pretty obvious that for realism you can't drive a car with buttons and analog sticks. It's amazing how much emphasis is put on graphics and so little has been put on the human interaction aspect of gaming.
The controllers in use on the XBox 360 and PS3 are barely more sophisticated than those on first generation games consoles.
Nintendo took a huge risk and gamble with the Wii and such gambles are often prone to failure. It was a brave move given Nintendo had been the 3rd place console for a while.
Typical Microsoft to big up the idea they borrowed. Just like they can't stop talking about multitouch being the future and yet as of yet has no commercially available product with it.
Can't there be any other solution to a problem than taxing something?
I will be glad for them to fight online piracy once police have cleaned up the streets. Once murder, rape, burglary, bank robbing, drink driving and so on are under control then the police can focus on copyright infringement.
I'm sure it will work fine for some games, that is until someone walks behind you or moves around in the background to ruin your game.
Also, multiplayer will require a huge room and lots of sensors. But perhaps Microsoft expects people to play online, a console for people with no real friends.
True, but then when they were using PowerPC processors they were still nothing unusual.
Nobody except games console makers have custom chips these days, they cost so much to develop and tend to be poor in comparison to off the shelf. Apple machines are designed better on the whole than generic PC hardware, quieter, better looking and just more pleasing to use.
An XBox was just a PC with unified memory architecture, but that didn't give anyone the right to clone it.
Which is why Windows is a 32 bit extension to a 16 bit user interface for an 8 bit operating system based on a 4 bit architecture from a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
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Back when video games were a fairly new thing and CGI was amazing they made Tron. The visual style was impressive, especially given the use of hand tinting and other post processing effects. These days it's all too easy using CGI and other computer gadgetry.
There simply isn't any way that this sequel can stand out compared to all the other CGI fx laden films around. Unless of course they go for rotoscoping or similar as used in A Scanner Darkly.
He also had to jailbreak the phone to get into it.
That's pretty much the same as using an exploit to gain super user access to a computer. We all know there's root kits and scripts which make this easy.
Smarthones aren't all that secure, they typically all have some sort of boot loader which you can often use to read the contents of the flash.
Angstrom or something similar would have done.
It can be easier to design the hardware to suit the software sometimes. Use chips which have good drivers.
I'm sure OLPC inspired these small cheap netbooks that seem to be flooding the market now.
Is this a shift from WIndows to Mac as well? Microsoft hasn't made a version of IE for the Mac in many years. A lot more Macs have been sold and IE 4 is too old and insecure to use on a Mac.
You do have to ask yourself why a 50 year old woman is creating fake myspace accounts and luring underage girls into discussing things. If it was a man doing this it would be called grooming.
True, but there's often a balance between having machines locked down and having them usable. This is where Windows often struggles, some software just doesn't behave in a locked down environment.
When you buy some Windows software you can never quite be sure what you need to have locked down, activeX can be a risk but block the registration of activeX controls and you can prevent the software working.
Induction chargers are the solution, you don't need any sockets.
Plus you can just place multiple items on it.
It's just like Princess Di. They were slagging her off all the time until she died.
I've never understood why CD and DVD sales leap after the death of a performer. Surely your praise and money are most useful while the performer is still alive?
Obviously with the huge amount of media coverage many people will discover his music and buy it.
It's a tragic loss, but then like many pioneers and super famous artists of the 70s and 80s it becomes hard to produce amazing music. Kraftwerk are a good example of this, massively influential but electronic music is so mainstream they can't do anything that stands out.
I thought the whole point of security is to suffer a bit of inconvenience in the name of being secure.
It is a really pain in the behind to have to unlock your car and put the key in the ignition. It's really annoying when you lose your keys, so remove the key and locks? nope, didn't think so.
Password masking stops people stealing your password when you are unaware of being watched. There are ways around the inconvenience of masking, type your password into notepad and then paste it into the login window.
Snow Leopard's upgrade price is very small. So I don't see Windows being comparable. $29 is a lot less than Microsoft is charging and both Snow Leopard and Windows 7 seem to be tweaked versions of the last version.
SCO or whatever they become will keep losing cases. Those who are supporting them are treating it like a high risk investment and hoping it pays off.
They're a parasite with no turnover of any significant amount, you can't keep a business going if the sole source of income is from court cases.
I'd sooner have secrecy than having to listen to Balmer and co whinging about Google and talking about suing Linux vendors all the time.
Apple is pretty good in the sense that they don't appear to criticise the competition (or if they do it doesn't make the news). They get on with what they do best.
Did people have to pay car tax to fund horses and carts when cars become mainstream?
Things change, old media dies. We don't listen to music on reel to reel tape recorders anymore, are people trying to preserve such things? nope.
You mean a reset switch?
It wasn't hard, there's a reset pin on many of the C64 ports, just connect that to GND and the C64 resets.
Of course there were many games that managed to prevent this somehow. They also managed to prevent copy cartridges like Datel's Action Replay and Trilogic's Freeze Frame from taking control.
I would agree with you if it wasn't for the SID player that does the same thing but for C64 music.
Apple are shooting themselves in the foot with their rules. I know what they're trying to do, prevent unlocking of the phone.
Indeed, GCC just isn't as good at producing fast code as Microsoft or Intels compilers. This is probably the price you pay for having a fairly portable compiler such as GCC.
I would submit again and provide other instances where submissions have been allowed.
I have a SID player on the iPhone which was approved. This is emulating C64 hardware.
The people looking at the app store submissions probably have varied opinions.
The Wii was the only true next gen system due to its control system. All that Sony and Microsoft are interested in right now is playing catch up.
It was pretty obvious that for realism you can't drive a car with buttons and analog sticks. It's amazing how much emphasis is put on graphics and so little has been put on the human interaction aspect of gaming.
The controllers in use on the XBox 360 and PS3 are barely more sophisticated than those on first generation games consoles.
Indeed, talk about sucking up to Microsoft.
Nintendo took a huge risk and gamble with the Wii and such gambles are often prone to failure. It was a brave move given Nintendo had been the 3rd place console for a while.
Typical Microsoft to big up the idea they borrowed. Just like they can't stop talking about multitouch being the future and yet as of yet has no commercially available product with it.
I used an old version a while ago and it was pretty good then. Does versioning and other things.
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Can't there be any other solution to a problem than taxing something?
I will be glad for them to fight online piracy once police have cleaned up the streets. Once murder, rape, burglary, bank robbing, drink driving and so on are under control then the police can focus on copyright infringement.
I'm sure it will work fine for some games, that is until someone walks behind you or moves around in the background to ruin your game.
Also, multiplayer will require a huge room and lots of sensors. But perhaps Microsoft expects people to play online, a console for people with no real friends.
True, but then when they were using PowerPC processors they were still nothing unusual.
Nobody except games console makers have custom chips these days, they cost so much to develop and tend to be poor in comparison to off the shelf. Apple machines are designed better on the whole than generic PC hardware, quieter, better looking and just more pleasing to use.
An XBox was just a PC with unified memory architecture, but that didn't give anyone the right to clone it.
Which is why Windows is a 32 bit extension to a 16 bit user interface for an 8 bit operating system based on a 4 bit architecture from a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.