If the network had been destroyed by lightning or some other act of god that would be true. However, this was a deliberate, premeditated attack by another human being- and it would never have happened if he hadn't made the decision to do it. Therefore, it is entirely his fault, not the hospital's.
It's your fault I just smashed your window with a rock. You should have hired guards to keep me away, or moved to an apartment on the 20th floor where I can't reach it. It's also the window company's fault for not making them out of Lexan. I'm just showing you the flaws in your security.
I don't see what's surprising about this. Every smart customer checks what other customers have had to say about a product before purchasing it, whether it's in-depth written reviews or a simple rating. A product most other users liked is more likely to be investigated further and purchased, and a product most other users didn't is likely to be avoided.
So this guy takes his girlfriend to an engineers' comedy club, but when the act starts, she's confused because the guy on stage is just shouting out numbers and getting laughs from the crowd each time. She asks what's so funny, and her boyfriend explains that they have indexed every joke in the world and assigned each one an ID number, so when he says a number he's telling that joke. This goes on for a while until the end, when the comedian shouts a certain number that really brings the house down, roaring, cheering, standing ovation, the works. The girl asks what was so funny about it. The boyfriend replies, "We've never heard that one before."
Try playing games that aren't first-person shooters (i.e. 75% of the libraries of current consoles and 99% of the libraries of the previous generation).
Who says it has to be the CIA? It would be easy for any blackhat in a class above script kiddy to automate the process completely- an edit to the wikipedia is just an HTTP request.
And it doesn't have to be people with specific goals of manipulating information- there are plenty of people on the net who just want to piss off people who can't get back at them.
The problem with that is that 5 out of 10 times you will be brushed off as a "fucking noob" and 4 out of 10 times you will be PKed. Asking a question and getting an extended coaching or even a helpful, informative response is extremely rare.
Even if a company manages to beat one of those products on technical merits (and even making the attempt is out of reach of all but a handful of companies right now), the existence and interaction/interdependence of the other two will keep Apple on top. No iPod user will switch to a music player that doesn't play their ITMS collection or doesn't work with iTunes. None will switch to an MP3 manager that doesn't work with their iPod and can't access the ITMS. None will use a music store whose tracks won't play in iTunes or on their iPod. The music industry will not allow anyone to launch a product without DRM, and the only ways in and out of Apple's music world cannot be protected by anyone other than Apple. And it's very unlikely that anyone, even Google, could manage to beat Apple in all three areas simultaneously (even Microsoft and the entire rest of the music player hardware market are repeatedly failing at this).
A much better solution is to make your own ringtones on the computer and transfer them to the phone; Cingular is one of the carriers that allows you to do this with no strings attached.
The last time this came up, Apple's position was that they would neither forbid nor faciliate such transfers (i.e. you can sell it all you want, but Apple will not help you change the DRM on the song so your buyer can play it). Ebay pulled the auction before the issue was truly resolved, so it's still unclear.
Who does BellSouth think their customers will blame when "the Internet is slow"? Especially when they ask their tech friends who point out that switching to a different ISP will make it faster?
I can't quite understand why someone would own more than one iPod at a time, but you're right that existing iPod users upgrading is a huge market that Apple can rely on to stick around. The things usually last between 2 and 3 years, and by then Apple tends to come out with a new model with more space and features at the same cost that you paid for the previous one.
To be completely pedantic, the 68K compatibility layer (called the Mixed Mode Manager) started out as an emulator and was converted to a just-in-time translator later on. Rosetta is starting out as a JIT translator with some sort of caching going on to improve performance on consecutive launches.
We CANNOT allow "MacBook Pro" to take off. Everyone needs to keep calling them Powerbooks. I don't care what Apple says. If customers keep coming into the stores asking for Powerbooks maybe they will come to their senses.
Really, all the top Mac news sites and blogs need to get on board with this. It is NOT a "MacBook Pro". It is and always will be a Powerbook.
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If the network had been destroyed by lightning or some other act of god that would be true. However, this was a deliberate, premeditated attack by another human being- and it would never have happened if he hadn't made the decision to do it. Therefore, it is entirely his fault, not the hospital's.
It's your fault I just smashed your window with a rock. You should have hired guards to keep me away, or moved to an apartment on the 20th floor where I can't reach it. It's also the window company's fault for not making them out of Lexan. I'm just showing you the flaws in your security.
This is just one private company making an internal policy change. If it was a government doing it there would be cause to worry.
I don't see what's surprising about this. Every smart customer checks what other customers have had to say about a product before purchasing it, whether it's in-depth written reviews or a simple rating. A product most other users liked is more likely to be investigated further and purchased, and a product most other users didn't is likely to be avoided.
That poster was, if anything, a classic Bungie jab at people like the GP and evidence that their sense of humor was very much intact after the buyout.
Might want to point out this series is called Fatal Frame in the US. This is nowhere in the summary or article.
There are already tons of games like this- on consoles.
I hope not. There are a lot of people who play games specifically because they are not like the real world.
The name PowerBook predates the PowerPC. All the PB models with three-digit names used 68K chips.
How do you know that Google will always do this for reasons you agree with? Remember the flap over Google cooperating with China's censorship?
Better version:
So this guy takes his girlfriend to an engineers' comedy club, but when the act starts, she's confused because the guy on stage is just shouting out numbers and getting laughs from the crowd each time. She asks what's so funny, and her boyfriend explains that they have indexed every joke in the world and assigned each one an ID number, so when he says a number he's telling that joke. This goes on for a while until the end, when the comedian shouts a certain number that really brings the house down, roaring, cheering, standing ovation, the works. The girl asks what was so funny about it. The boyfriend replies, "We've never heard that one before."
Try playing games that aren't first-person shooters (i.e. 75% of the libraries of current consoles and 99% of the libraries of the previous generation).
Who says it has to be the CIA? It would be easy for any blackhat in a class above script kiddy to automate the process completely- an edit to the wikipedia is just an HTTP request.
And it doesn't have to be people with specific goals of manipulating information- there are plenty of people on the net who just want to piss off people who can't get back at them.
Hey, ALL games would be so much better if the main character was wearing a goose outfit.
The problem with that is that 5 out of 10 times you will be brushed off as a "fucking noob" and 4 out of 10 times you will be PKed. Asking a question and getting an extended coaching or even a helpful, informative response is extremely rare.
- iTunes won't be dethroned until the iPod is.
- The iPod won't be dethroned until the ITMS is.
- The ITMS won't be dethroned until iTunes is.
Even if a company manages to beat one of those products on technical merits (and even making the attempt is out of reach of all but a handful of companies right now), the existence and interaction/interdependence of the other two will keep Apple on top. No iPod user will switch to a music player that doesn't play their ITMS collection or doesn't work with iTunes. None will switch to an MP3 manager that doesn't work with their iPod and can't access the ITMS. None will use a music store whose tracks won't play in iTunes or on their iPod. The music industry will not allow anyone to launch a product without DRM, and the only ways in and out of Apple's music world cannot be protected by anyone other than Apple. And it's very unlikely that anyone, even Google, could manage to beat Apple in all three areas simultaneously (even Microsoft and the entire rest of the music player hardware market are repeatedly failing at this).A much better solution is to make your own ringtones on the computer and transfer them to the phone; Cingular is one of the carriers that allows you to do this with no strings attached.
The last time this came up, Apple's position was that they would neither forbid nor faciliate such transfers (i.e. you can sell it all you want, but Apple will not help you change the DRM on the song so your buyer can play it). Ebay pulled the auction before the issue was truly resolved, so it's still unclear.
Who does BellSouth think their customers will blame when "the Internet is slow"? Especially when they ask their tech friends who point out that switching to a different ISP will make it faster?
I can't quite understand why someone would own more than one iPod at a time, but you're right that existing iPod users upgrading is a huge market that Apple can rely on to stick around. The things usually last between 2 and 3 years, and by then Apple tends to come out with a new model with more space and features at the same cost that you paid for the previous one.
To be completely pedantic, the 68K compatibility layer (called the Mixed Mode Manager) started out as an emulator and was converted to a just-in-time translator later on. Rosetta is starting out as a JIT translator with some sort of caching going on to improve performance on consecutive launches.
We CANNOT allow "MacBook Pro" to take off. Everyone needs to keep calling them Powerbooks. I don't care what Apple says. If customers keep coming into the stores asking for Powerbooks maybe they will come to their senses.
Really, all the top Mac news sites and blogs need to get on board with this. It is NOT a "MacBook Pro". It is and always will be a Powerbook.
This is a perfect example of the all-too-often-ignored principle that just because we CAN do something doesn't mean that we SHOULD.