So you're saying the ESRB didn't know Nintendo and Sony wouldn't licence an AO game? Because if they knew that, then they are directly responsible for the game not being sellable.
In any case I wouldn't call the kills in Manhunt prolonged. I think the longest one was maybe five seconds in the first game.
Our phone point isn't even near a power point. Shows that the idiots who built the house didn't even have the foresight to predict cordless phones. Of course these days if you were to build a house, every power point would have one phone jack and one ethernet jack, so that in the future if you wanted to move things around you could, and there would be a well hidden cabinet somewhere determining what goes to where.
I've often wondered why it costs so much to add one phone point to a house which already has a phone point, when getting cable TV installed in a house which didn't already have it, is free. Clearly the latter involves much more work compared to the former. Of course it's something to do with cost over time, but it's not like the ADSL doesn't cost over time in itself.
Using a key server is probably the easiest approach, seeing as we already have all the infrastructure for it (i.e. the key servers already exist, and are widely used.)
It could work, just need to fetch the key from a public keyserver as everyone has been doing for some time now.
In practice though not many mail clients automate fetching the key. That's partially for security -- you don't want a key you haven't checked getting used automatically. But they could always prompt the user. And using various other tricks it could be made easier to exchange keys directly (e.g. build a new feature into mobile phones.:-))
Annoyingly the first of these reasons is why the Blackberry site won't even tell me whether Maps is supported in my country or not -- the site requires IE for the ActiveX plugin. (It'd be easier if it had a plain HTML page with a list of supported countries.)
In fact you shouldn't test in IE at all. You should make sure your site conforms to the standards and then it's the user's problem if something doesn't work.
Another feature which wasn't mentioned is that similarly to Java, types in D are generally sized in a standard way. It's not like C where an "int" might be 2 bytes on one platform, 4 on another and 8 on yet another. And unlike Java, they don't sacrifice the unsigned types.
Finally all those whiners can just compile a version of the OS which only has the dialling program, and they can have their phone with no other features.
I was discussing something like this with a friend not long ago. Yahoo was already one of the less popular clients last year and lately, with Google having entered the XMPP network, there are probably more users using XMPP than using Yahoo (Google haven't opened figures as far as I know, but when they introduced the avatar features into their client, they mentioned on the blog that a million users had already set their avatars, so we know it's a great deal bigger than that.)
In other words, at this point in time, Yahoo would actually gain network value by implementing server-to-server support for XMPP, putting themselves on the public Jabber network.
They don't even have to open up the client protocol, because people would no longer be forced to use Yahoo to talk to Yahoo users, so the selection of clients would be wide enough.
In Microsoft's case, mod chips = sales = a good idea. If they hadn't done it, they would have lost the sale of the original XBOX to myself and practically everyone I know who owns one. Because what else is it good for?
So what? A documented binary format may be easier to read than a documented XML format, but an undocumented binary format is always HARDER to read than an undocumented XML format. And this isn't the IETF we're talking about here, it's Microsoft. Do you really think they're going to fully document the legacy Word binary format?
I was talking about the XBOX, not the XBOX 360. With the XBOX 360, MS are actually going out of their way to cripple it, which will probably cause the ultimate demise of that console. But with the original XBOX, you could even buy solderless modchips.
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So you're saying the ESRB didn't know Nintendo and Sony wouldn't licence an AO game? Because if they knew that, then they are directly responsible for the game not being sellable.
In any case I wouldn't call the kills in Manhunt prolonged. I think the longest one was maybe five seconds in the first game.
Our phone point isn't even near a power point. Shows that the idiots who built the house didn't even have the foresight to predict cordless phones. Of course these days if you were to build a house, every power point would have one phone jack and one ethernet jack, so that in the future if you wanted to move things around you could, and there would be a well hidden cabinet somewhere determining what goes to where.
With the LEDs in my house, I can look at them without burning out my retina. So one might say that the sun might be slightly brighter than an LED.
I've often wondered why it costs so much to add one phone point to a house which already has a phone point, when getting cable TV installed in a house which didn't already have it, is free. Clearly the latter involves much more work compared to the former. Of course it's something to do with cost over time, but it's not like the ADSL doesn't cost over time in itself.
Using a key server is probably the easiest approach, seeing as we already have all the infrastructure for it (i.e. the key servers already exist, and are widely used.)
It could work, just need to fetch the key from a public keyserver as everyone has been doing for some time now.
In practice though not many mail clients automate fetching the key. That's partially for security -- you don't want a key you haven't checked getting used automatically. But they could always prompt the user. And using various other tricks it could be made easier to exchange keys directly (e.g. build a new feature into mobile phones. :-))
Well, I'm not necessarily saying that everyone should refuse to test in it, just that any given web application developer shouldn't have to care.
IE will reject all correctly typed XHTML pages though, so it doesn't really matter what's in the page. :-)
Annoyingly the first of these reasons is why the Blackberry site won't even tell me whether Maps is supported in my country or not -- the site requires IE for the ActiveX plugin. (It'd be easier if it had a plain HTML page with a list of supported countries.)
In fact you shouldn't test in IE at all. You should make sure your site conforms to the standards and then it's the user's problem if something doesn't work.
I guess he needs to open his eyes in order to see it.
The previous article did it too. People are jumping the gun this year. Just goes to show that April Fools' Day really runs for 48 hours.
Do adults not need to socialise?
Another feature which wasn't mentioned is that similarly to Java, types in D are generally sized in a standard way. It's not like C where an "int" might be 2 bytes on one platform, 4 on another and 8 on yet another. And unlike Java, they don't sacrifice the unsigned types.
For one thing, it has unnecessarily increased the complexity of various webapps...
Finally all those whiners can just compile a version of the OS which only has the dialling program, and they can have their phone with no other features.
I'm a software engineer but my Bachelor's degree doesn't happen to be in Engineering.
I was discussing something like this with a friend not long ago. Yahoo was already one of the less popular clients last year and lately, with Google having entered the XMPP network, there are probably more users using XMPP than using Yahoo (Google haven't opened figures as far as I know, but when they introduced the avatar features into their client, they mentioned on the blog that a million users had already set their avatars, so we know it's a great deal bigger than that.)
In other words, at this point in time, Yahoo would actually gain network value by implementing server-to-server support for XMPP, putting themselves on the public Jabber network.
They don't even have to open up the client protocol, because people would no longer be forced to use Yahoo to talk to Yahoo users, so the selection of clients would be wide enough.
Because, clearly, only 19 year old guys ever sexually assault people.
You've hit the nail on the head. What if he were actually a 14 year old? Those are always innocent, after all.
In Microsoft's case, mod chips = sales = a good idea. If they hadn't done it, they would have lost the sale of the original XBOX to myself and practically everyone I know who owns one. Because what else is it good for?
So what? A documented binary format may be easier to read than a documented XML format, but an undocumented binary format is always HARDER to read than an undocumented XML format. And this isn't the IETF we're talking about here, it's Microsoft. Do you really think they're going to fully document the legacy Word binary format?
It may not be easy to parse, but at least you don't have to write your own parser.
Perhaps you missed the word "backups" which was in there as well.
The word you're looking for is "7Prime". HTH.
I was talking about the XBOX, not the XBOX 360. With the XBOX 360, MS are actually going out of their way to cripple it, which will probably cause the ultimate demise of that console. But with the original XBOX, you could even buy solderless modchips.