Actually, the sad face indicated a variety of hardware problems. If the hardware tests passed and the machine was then unable to locate a system folder, it would display the flashing question mark.
Although, to further your rebuttal of the earlier post, the sad mac was accompanied by an error code that could be used to diagnose the problem.
The original controller was fine. You must have little girl hands.
I'm going to have a lot of trouble getting used to the S controller if it's really the standard controller for Xbox 2, the white and black buttons in particular. It looks like it would be very uncomfortable to pull my thumb back all the way to hit them, and hitting them with the first joint doesn't seem quite right either.
All the companies are looking for profit- you've just listed 2 out of the 3 methods they are using to obtain this. Microsoft's "hook" is online play- the console was designed around Live from the start, with the hard disk and the built-in Ethernet port and the headset slot (does anyone really use memory cards with Xboxes?) on the controllers. There's a very good chance Xbox 2 will have digital media and possibly PVR functionality as well, to play for the same "home media" market as Sony is. Nintendo is still content to make devices that play games and nothing else.
Sony may not have been the first console *ever*, but they did beat the N64 by a significant margin, and that was a large factor in the Playstation's success.
Those arguments are only relevant in so far as they obtained the court decision he wanted. This decision has bought time to wrangle out the ethical implications before some entity takes advantage of the confused state of the field to set a bad precedent (a valid patent on a genetically engineered human).
You're mistakenly assuming that "damage" in this article meant the same as "damage to the environment". The damage described here is limited to THE INDIAN OCEAN ONLY. Do you think that when one animal attacks and proceeds to eat another, the victim is not damaged? The biosphere is unharmed, and animals attacking each other is a perfectly natural predator-prey relationship, right?
Correct- the surface of the Earth has not been damaged. However, a small subsection of the surface of the Earth has been damaged. If, somehow, the tectonic plates carrying North America and Siberia were induced to move towards each other, the pacific ocean would be completely obliterated (and the surface of the earth still wouldn't be damaged).
There were ancient Viking societies in which murder was punishable by merely paying a fine. Don't use the standards of unrelated legal systems to judge our current one.
And copyright infringement is not civil disobedience until you do it in public and show up on the evening news getting arrested for it.
Google has far more bandwidth than wikipedia, and if the tight integration this thread suggests is implemented then a significant fraction of Google users will be diverted to wikipedia, vastly increasing the load on it. Wikipedia might not be able to handle the projected usage on its own.
Of course, it's very likely they would not have ever become a successful videogame publisher without the vastly greater funds available from becoming a publically traded company. Would they sleep more or less comfortably on the notion that their dreams would almost certainly never come to fruition? All business decisions involve risk.
There is a precedent for this- Yahoo was ordered by a French court to ban Nazi memorabilia from their auctions. These decisions only affect users within the jurisdiction of the law, so only users who can be verified as being in France will not see ads for competitors.
It is. Apple has never denied this, they just never made a big deal out of it.
They also went on to add a huge number of features (smart playlists, the music store, AAC support, streaming to computers and remote speakers, the live search interface, Sound Check, etc) that by now it's very loosely based on SJ.
Um... I can understand doing this for *free* registration pages, but it shouldn't be done for premium content. Even BugMeNot doesn't accept this, why should Slashdot? Someone mod parent down.
People live in a country because they have no choice and they gain things like a police force, health care, etc. People play in an MMORPG because they are paying to be entertained. The company is well within its rights to prevent things which interfere with "real" players' experiences, and the item farmers have no right to screw up the game for their own benefit.
And it's not worth the risk in the real world today (a world with laymen, politics, and public opinion). A failed robot mission results in disappointment and some slight irritation over wasted funding. A failed manned mission results in a massive PR backlash and calls from influential sources to kill the entire space program, robots and all.
Openness is really not compatible with drama. How are you going to be taken by surprise during the show if you analyzed and commented on all the plot twists already?
Because it just might turn out to be easier to keep people alive on Mars than the moon. Mars is an entire planet with some atmosphere and a good chance of water; the moon has virtually nothing on it besides dust, rocks, and hydrogen.
Wouldn't it be possible to enforce registrar standards compliance by having all DNS servers reject noncompliant records, not just the registrar's signup process? If a noncompliant record was not accessible to a large chunk of the net, that would be a strong incentive to make sure legitimate names are compliant and make this type of scam less effective.
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Actually, the sad face indicated a variety of hardware problems. If the hardware tests passed and the machine was then unable to locate a system folder, it would display the flashing question mark.
Although, to further your rebuttal of the earlier post, the sad mac was accompanied by an error code that could be used to diagnose the problem.
Yeah, and the Emotion Engine was going to make games indistinguishable from movies.
The original controller was fine. You must have little girl hands.
I'm going to have a lot of trouble getting used to the S controller if it's really the standard controller for Xbox 2, the white and black buttons in particular. It looks like it would be very uncomfortable to pull my thumb back all the way to hit them, and hitting them with the first joint doesn't seem quite right either.
All the companies are looking for profit- you've just listed 2 out of the 3 methods they are using to obtain this. Microsoft's "hook" is online play- the console was designed around Live from the start, with the hard disk and the built-in Ethernet port and the headset slot (does anyone really use memory cards with Xboxes?) on the controllers. There's a very good chance Xbox 2 will have digital media and possibly PVR functionality as well, to play for the same "home media" market as Sony is. Nintendo is still content to make devices that play games and nothing else.
Sony may not have been the first console *ever*, but they did beat the N64 by a significant margin, and that was a large factor in the Playstation's success.
This hack is what Secure Audio Path is meant to defeat.
Those arguments are only relevant in so far as they obtained the court decision he wanted. This decision has bought time to wrangle out the ethical implications before some entity takes advantage of the confused state of the field to set a bad precedent (a valid patent on a genetically engineered human).
These "scientists" clearly do not understand the harmonic perfection of simultaneous 4-way rotating Cubic Time.
You're mistakenly assuming that "damage" in this article meant the same as "damage to the environment". The damage described here is limited to THE INDIAN OCEAN ONLY. Do you think that when one animal attacks and proceeds to eat another, the victim is not damaged? The biosphere is unharmed, and animals attacking each other is a perfectly natural predator-prey relationship, right?
Correct- the surface of the Earth has not been damaged. However, a small subsection of the surface of the Earth has been damaged. If, somehow, the tectonic plates carrying North America and Siberia were induced to move towards each other, the pacific ocean would be completely obliterated (and the surface of the earth still wouldn't be damaged).
The more swarms that do this, the fewer people will bother to seek them out, so the MPAA still wins.
There were ancient Viking societies in which murder was punishable by merely paying a fine. Don't use the standards of unrelated legal systems to judge our current one.
And copyright infringement is not civil disobedience until you do it in public and show up on the evening news getting arrested for it.
Google has far more bandwidth than wikipedia, and if the tight integration this thread suggests is implemented then a significant fraction of Google users will be diverted to wikipedia, vastly increasing the load on it. Wikipedia might not be able to handle the projected usage on its own.
Of course, it's very likely they would not have ever become a successful videogame publisher without the vastly greater funds available from becoming a publically traded company. Would they sleep more or less comfortably on the notion that their dreams would almost certainly never come to fruition? All business decisions involve risk.
There is a precedent for this- Yahoo was ordered by a French court to ban Nazi memorabilia from their auctions. These decisions only affect users within the jurisdiction of the law, so only users who can be verified as being in France will not see ads for competitors.
Yeah, that was so much less realistic than the FTL ships and intelligent robots indistinguishable from humans.
BSG is hard sci-fi, but not Clarke-style silicon carbide. I don't mind if they cut a few corners here and there to advance the plot.
It is. Apple has never denied this, they just never made a big deal out of it.
They also went on to add a huge number of features (smart playlists, the music store, AAC support, streaming to computers and remote speakers, the live search interface, Sound Check, etc) that by now it's very loosely based on SJ.
Um... I can understand doing this for *free* registration pages, but it shouldn't be done for premium content. Even BugMeNot doesn't accept this, why should Slashdot? Someone mod parent down.
It's not piracy, it's copyright inf- er, sorry, reflex...
People live in a country because they have no choice and they gain things like a police force, health care, etc. People play in an MMORPG because they are paying to be entertained. The company is well within its rights to prevent things which interfere with "real" players' experiences, and the item farmers have no right to screw up the game for their own benefit.
And it's not worth the risk in the real world today (a world with laymen, politics, and public opinion). A failed robot mission results in disappointment and some slight irritation over wasted funding. A failed manned mission results in a massive PR backlash and calls from influential sources to kill the entire space program, robots and all.
Openness is really not compatible with drama. How are you going to be taken by surprise during the show if you analyzed and commented on all the plot twists already?
It'll be Halo 360 Extreme, because it'll be a skateboarding game.
Because it just might turn out to be easier to keep people alive on Mars than the moon. Mars is an entire planet with some atmosphere and a good chance of water; the moon has virtually nothing on it besides dust, rocks, and hydrogen.
Wouldn't it be possible to enforce registrar standards compliance by having all DNS servers reject noncompliant records, not just the registrar's signup process? If a noncompliant record was not accessible to a large chunk of the net, that would be a strong incentive to make sure legitimate names are compliant and make this type of scam less effective.