What about the people who want to play games only offered on Xbox and also want to play games only offered on PS3? They have to either buy two consoles, or just not play some of the games that they would really like to.
Now, if one of those two consoles was no longer around... Well, those exclusives would have to go somewhere, right?
Those are the people that really care about 'console wars.' These are the people looking at the other console, pointing out every flaw, pronouncing with glee 'THEY ARE DOOMED!'
I'm pretty sure the strap was included in the first place "in anticipation of people abusing the controller in unusual ways" (i.e. letting go of the damned thing). They just underestimated the amount of force people would subject these things to in the process. In other words, Nintendo put the straps on to counter people accidently letting go of the remote, but they had no reason to believe people would be throwing these things with the force that they are.
I used to be that punk who could whomp just about anyone at fighting games. I got into a few fights over it too... I learned early on that if the person I was playing could beat me up (there were a lot of Polynesians in the area. Those dudes could whomp a gorilla.) - let him win.
Personally, what drove me out of the arcade was the fact that in EVERY arcade some 75% of the machines featured something broken - anything from a stuck button to a controller that wouldn't move in a certain direction. That, coupled with the rise in cost, was very annoying. Sink in a dollar (which at the time was like 10% of my weekly income) only to find out that I can't block because the goddamn controller doesn't work.
I would still be spending oodles of money at arcades if the damn things were maintained properly.
Hate Microsoft all you want, but they did do one good thing (albeit, inadvertantly). They brought a very much needed concept to the PC world. That concept was standardization. Do you really think we would have experienced the home computer craze if every software vendor in the world had to pick which platforms they wanted to support. Or worse, had to write programs that would work on dozens of different operating systems? You could expect all software to cost at least twice as much.
My person opinion is that without one dominant player to effectively tell everyone else how to write their software, the computer world would be a massive mess right now.
Nope. RE was never ported to playstation. It was in fact released as a PS exclusive. It was (much much later) ported to the GC (which has a couple of RE exclusives itself).
now the gathering of what can be defined as public knowledge can be protected by the IP vultures.
No, not yet. Didn't you ever watch Saturday Morning Cartoons?
And I quote:
I'm just a bill, Yes, I'm only a bill, And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill. Well, it's a long, long journey To the capital city, It's a long, long wait While I'm sitting in committee, But I know I'll be a law someday... At least I hope and pray that I will, But today I'm still just a bill.
{Gee, bill, you certainly have a lot of patience and courage!} {Well I got *this* far. When I started, I wasn't even a *bill* - I was just an idea. Some folks back home decided they wanted a law passed, so they called their local congressman and he said "You're right, there ought to be a law." Then he sat down and wrote me out and introduced me to Congress, and I became a bill. And I'll remain a bill until they decide to make me a law.}
I'm just a bill, Yes I'm only a bill, And I got as far as Capitol Hill. Well now I'm stuck in committee And I sit here and wait While a few key congressmen Discuss and debate Whether they should Let me be a law... Oh how I hope and pray that they will, But today I am still just a bill.
{Listen to those congressmen arguing! Is all that discussion and debate about you?} {Yes. I'm one of the lucky ones. Most bills never even get this far. I hope they decide to report on me favourably, otherwise I may die.} {"Die?"} {Yeah: die in committee. Oooh! But it looks like I'm gonna live. Now I go to the House of Representatives and they vote on me.} {If they vote "yes", what happens?} {Then I go to the Senate and the whole thing starts all over again.} {Oh no!} {Oh yes!}
I'm just a bill, Yes I'm only a bill, And if they vote for me on Capitol Hill, Well then I'm off to the White House Where I'll wait in a line With a lot of other bills For the President to sign. And if he signs me then I'll be a law... Oh, how I hope and pray that he will, But today I am still just a bill.
{You mean even if the whole Congress says you should be a law, the President can still say no?} {Yes, that's called a "veto". If the President vetoes me, I have to go back to Congress, and they vote on me again, and by that time it's...}
{By that time, it's very unlikely that you'll *become* a law! It's not easy to become a law, is it?}
No! But how I hope and I pray that I will, But today I am still just a bill!
{He signed you, bill! Now you're a law!} {Oh yes!}
No other products/services are making money for the company. Everything else is running in the red.
I call bullshit. Post a link to sombody credible saying this, smart guy. And I don't mean "Oh, MSN is in the red." I want to see something that says ALL MS products/services are in the red. Otherwise stop spreading FUD.
It's all about lack of accountability. Think about it - in Real Life (tm) if you are an ass hat, people stop associating with you. There is accountability. In the On-Line World (tm), if you are an ass hat, you run the risk of alienating an alias. Worst case scenario - people figure out that RockinSenior78 is a jerk and exclude/ignore him. RockinSenior78 creates a new account NiceOldGuy79 and starts over.
I think this stinks, too, but I can see where it might make sense to drop Saruman for this movie if the only other choice was to drop something else. After all, once his army is defeated at Helm's Deep and his factories are trashed by the Ents, he's pretty much out of the picture as a major player in the war. Resolution (as Tolkien wrote it) would be nice, but I can't say this is an especially heinous cut.
I'd have no problem with PJ cutting him out if it was him or something else. However, if I have to sit through 10 minutes of love story crap that PJ cooked up (a la TTT) in exchange, then I'll be pissed.
Yeah, but then Galadriel says something along the lines of "You see what will come to pass if you fail" or whatever. I guess that's why Sam got rope instead of Magic Dirt....
All of these music download services allow you to burn your songs to a CD. If you really really want your MP3, just burn it to a CD, then rip it back to MP3. If it is all digital, there shouldn't be a loss of quality (might be wrong there, I'm not an expert on such matters).
Some banks may have a policy against honoring this kind of check - but not all of them. A coworker and I were having this very discussion a few years back. We decided to test it out. I wrote the check on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His bank wouldn't take it for deposit unless I came with him and showed them my ID. Even after that, it took two months to clear and I got called about seven times to verify that I really did want it to go through. The check was for ten dollars, the processing fees came to about $35.
I'm not asking the question "How can I make this more secure?" I pretty much know the answer to that. I'm asking "How do I convince the management of a small company to spend money on something that has no immediate ROI?" I'm also asking for some good sources on where I could find some information about writing secure code. That's all I'm looking for.
As for your good and perfectly valid questions, you are right: checks are inherently insecure. It's not the checks that we secure (although storing bunches of blank paper is much better than storing bunches of pre-printed check stock), its the software that companies can use to print the checks that we boast about. As far as what is printed on the check, no we verify nothing. It just prints what it is told to print. However, users can only do certain things (unless they open up the database and change their user rights, which is not hard at all...). So, if you want somebody to be able to print Accounts Payable checks, but not Payroll checks, you can do that. This is the kind of security we offer.
There is a process that most banks use called positive pay. This is a file that gets sent to the bank that details what checks were printed, to whom, and for how much. If the bank gets a check that isn't in the list, it doesn't cash it. It's basically a whitelist. Our customers must purchase this process from us before we will sell them fraud insurance.
It's not the printing of checks that is obscure, it is the security we implement. Is storing an audit log in a hidden file securing it, or is that just obscuring it so that most people won't see it?
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"Child's play" is an idiom meaning that something is simple to achieve.
The movie (along with a plethora of TV shows, plays, books, etc.) was named after the idiom.
RTFA - they did know that the "victim" was just a computer simulation.
What about the people who want to play games only offered on Xbox and also want to play games only offered on PS3? They have to either buy two consoles, or just not play some of the games that they would really like to.
Now, if one of those two consoles was no longer around... Well, those exclusives would have to go somewhere, right?
Those are the people that really care about 'console wars.' These are the people looking at the other console, pointing out every flaw, pronouncing with glee 'THEY ARE DOOMED!'
It only happens with certain types of phones (specifically, GSM phones). Mine does it all the time.
Unpersonal? They use the Miis: user generated characters. How is a personalized avatar anything BUT personal?
I'm pretty sure the strap was included in the first place "in anticipation of people abusing the controller in unusual ways" (i.e. letting go of the damned thing). They just underestimated the amount of force people would subject these things to in the process. In other words, Nintendo put the straps on to counter people accidently letting go of the remote, but they had no reason to believe people would be throwing these things with the force that they are.
Well, I mean.... Sort of like that. In the 'completely having nothing to do with machines in cow's butts' way.
You mean like this?
No, thirty is a lot.
You just have a shitload of games.
Oh... My... God...
You are a Linux missionary.
Do you walk around with the source code bound in a little book under your arm? Do you read passages of the code to people?
And lo' Linus doth said unto the GNU "Let thine OS embrace my Kernel and thou shalt know eternal happiness!" And it was good.
Tux bless you!
I used to be that punk who could whomp just about anyone at fighting games. I got into a few fights over it too... I learned early on that if the person I was playing could beat me up (there were a lot of Polynesians in the area. Those dudes could whomp a gorilla.) - let him win.
Personally, what drove me out of the arcade was the fact that in EVERY arcade some 75% of the machines featured something broken - anything from a stuck button to a controller that wouldn't move in a certain direction. That, coupled with the rise in cost, was very annoying. Sink in a dollar (which at the time was like 10% of my weekly income) only to find out that I can't block because the goddamn controller doesn't work.
I would still be spending oodles of money at arcades if the damn things were maintained properly.
Get it to your Valentine on time! Choose UPS 2 DAY and pay the price of Ground.
Yeah. Give my GF a book on Linux Assembly programming. That should get those panties off in a hurry.
Hate Microsoft all you want, but they did do one good thing (albeit, inadvertantly). They brought a very much needed concept to the PC world. That concept was standardization. Do you really think we would have experienced the home computer craze if every software vendor in the world had to pick which platforms they wanted to support. Or worse, had to write programs that would work on dozens of different operating systems? You could expect all software to cost at least twice as much.
My person opinion is that without one dominant player to effectively tell everyone else how to write their software, the computer world would be a massive mess right now.
Nope. RE was never ported to playstation. It was in fact released as a PS exclusive. It was (much much later) ported to the GC (which has a couple of RE exclusives itself).
That's true - we are on the last stanze there. But there is still hope.
now the gathering of what can be defined as public knowledge can be protected by the IP vultures.
No, not yet. Didn't you ever watch Saturday Morning Cartoons?
And I quote:
I'm just a bill,
Yes, I'm only a bill,
And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill.
Well, it's a long, long journey
To the capital city,
It's a long, long wait
While I'm sitting in committee,
But I know I'll be a law someday...
At least I hope and pray that I will,
But today I'm still just a bill.
{Gee, bill, you certainly have a lot of patience and courage!}
{Well I got *this* far. When I started, I wasn't even a *bill* - I was just an idea. Some folks back home decided they wanted a law passed, so they called their local congressman and he said "You're right, there ought to be a law." Then he sat down and wrote me out and introduced me to Congress, and I became a bill. And I'll remain a bill until they decide to make me a law.}
I'm just a bill,
Yes I'm only a bill,
And I got as far as Capitol Hill.
Well now I'm stuck in committee
And I sit here and wait
While a few key congressmen
Discuss and debate
Whether they should
Let me be a law...
Oh how I hope and pray that they will,
But today I am still just a bill.
{Listen to those congressmen arguing! Is all that discussion and debate about you?}
{Yes. I'm one of the lucky ones. Most bills never even get this far. I hope they decide to report on me favourably, otherwise I may die.}
{"Die?"}
{Yeah: die in committee. Oooh! But it looks like I'm gonna live. Now I go to the House of Representatives and they vote on me.}
{If they vote "yes", what happens?}
{Then I go to the Senate and the whole thing starts all over again.}
{Oh no!}
{Oh yes!}
I'm just a bill,
Yes I'm only a bill,
And if they vote for me on Capitol Hill,
Well then I'm off to the White House
Where I'll wait in a line
With a lot of other bills
For the President to sign.
And if he signs me then I'll be a law...
Oh, how I hope and pray that he will,
But today I am still just a bill.
{You mean even if the whole Congress says you should be a law, the President can still say no?}
{Yes, that's called a "veto". If the President vetoes me, I have to go back to Congress, and they vote on me again, and by that time it's...}
{By that time, it's very unlikely that you'll *become* a law! It's not easy to become a law, is it?}
No! But how I hope and I pray that I will,
But today I am still just a bill!
{He signed you, bill! Now you're a law!}
{Oh yes!}
No other products/services are making money for the company. Everything else is running in the red.
I call bullshit. Post a link to sombody credible saying this, smart guy. And I don't mean "Oh, MSN is in the red." I want to see something that says ALL MS products/services are in the red. Otherwise stop spreading FUD.
It's all about lack of accountability. Think about it - in Real Life (tm) if you are an ass hat, people stop associating with you. There is accountability. In the On-Line World (tm), if you are an ass hat, you run the risk of alienating an alias. Worst case scenario - people figure out that RockinSenior78 is a jerk and exclude/ignore him. RockinSenior78 creates a new account NiceOldGuy79 and starts over.
I think this stinks, too, but I can see where it might make sense to drop Saruman for this movie if the only other choice was to drop something else. After all, once his army is defeated at Helm's Deep and his factories are trashed by the Ents, he's pretty much out of the picture as a major player in the war. Resolution (as Tolkien wrote it) would be nice, but I can't say this is an especially heinous cut.
I'd have no problem with PJ cutting him out if it was him or something else. However, if I have to sit through 10 minutes of love story crap that PJ cooked up (a la TTT) in exchange, then I'll be pissed.
Yeah, but then Galadriel says something along the lines of "You see what will come to pass if you fail" or whatever. I guess that's why Sam got rope instead of Magic Dirt....
Tom Bombadil
Good riddance. Most annoying chapter(s) in the whole series...
You do realise these things have Gb-sized hard drives in them? Last time I checked, they're not going for tens of dollars...
Not when you buy one or two. When you buy 10 million, however....
If it costs you $40 to buy it, they probably made it for $4.
All of these music download services allow you to burn your songs to a CD. If you really really want your MP3, just burn it to a CD, then rip it back to MP3. If it is all digital, there shouldn't be a loss of quality (might be wrong there, I'm not an expert on such matters).
So much for DRM...
Some banks may have a policy against honoring this kind of check - but not all of them. A coworker and I were having this very discussion a few years back. We decided to test it out. I wrote the check on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His bank wouldn't take it for deposit unless I came with him and showed them my ID. Even after that, it took two months to clear and I got called about seven times to verify that I really did want it to go through. The check was for ten dollars, the processing fees came to about $35.
I'm not asking the question "How can I make this more secure?" I pretty much know the answer to that. I'm asking "How do I convince the management of a small company to spend money on something that has no immediate ROI?" I'm also asking for some good sources on where I could find some information about writing secure code. That's all I'm looking for.
As for your good and perfectly valid questions, you are right: checks are inherently insecure. It's not the checks that we secure (although storing bunches of blank paper is much better than storing bunches of pre-printed check stock), its the software that companies can use to print the checks that we boast about. As far as what is printed on the check, no we verify nothing. It just prints what it is told to print. However, users can only do certain things (unless they open up the database and change their user rights, which is not hard at all...). So, if you want somebody to be able to print Accounts Payable checks, but not Payroll checks, you can do that. This is the kind of security we offer.
There is a process that most banks use called positive pay. This is a file that gets sent to the bank that details what checks were printed, to whom, and for how much. If the bank gets a check that isn't in the list, it doesn't cash it. It's basically a whitelist. Our customers must purchase this process from us before we will sell them fraud insurance.
It's not the printing of checks that is obscure, it is the security we implement. Is storing an audit log in a hidden file securing it, or is that just obscuring it so that most people won't see it?