Yeah, the guy above me posted the correct meaning. However, since Slashdot doesn't let you delete posts once you've made them, and I was typing this comment at the time he posted his comment...
The money Apple spent on the marketing campaign to drive up the hype of said new model, which is no longer going to be something shiny and new when it's officially announced?
Do you know for sure that black helicopter won't come for you this night?
No, because that's a future event. Google's activities occurred in the past, and somewhere there is actual data that says exactly what Google was collecting. The person I replied to was speaking as if Google collecting just SSIDs and MAC addresses was fact, when neither he nor I know that for sure.
It's not exactly like they are going to jump on your network and listen to all of your traffic. They're just recording your MAC address and your SID (which you chose to make publicly available)
For someone who actually breaks in to an encrypted AP (and yes, WEP counts), consider that WEP might be like a retarded-midget bouncer who'll believe you if you lie to him, whereas WPA could be, "My name is Linksys... Sorry about this, but unless you speak Italian and ol' Tony tells you what my favorite word or phrase is, I can't give you an IPv4 addres!" Any situation where network encryption is either bypassed or broken without the network owner's knowledge and permission is nefarious outright, regardless of intention, and that should most definitely be a criminal offense. Although if ol' Tony finds out before the cops do, you're probably even worse off.
The problem is that certain companies have muffed things for the rest of us.
For example, say a person wanted to play the latest WiFi-enabled DS games on their DSi, which supports WPA2.
Nintendo made an idiotic mistake for the DS by putting the WiFi configuration tool in each WiFi supported game, rather than in the system's settings. This DS version of this tool only supports WEP. Therefore, a DSi that plays DS Internet games must connect to a WEP wireless network. Whoops.
I can tell you right now I enjoy playing Team Fortress 2 as much as or more than I have any of the games I've purchased since then. And while Valve has tweaked stuff on the engine as time has gone by, for the most part they've just added more content and tweaked balance, not completely redid portions to pull out the "Shiny".
Valve has, however, backported some features from a newer version of the game engine (specifically, some code from Left 4 Dead). This includes both the recent addition of AI bots to KOTH maps and some modifications of the graphics code (I can't remember what exactly, it's in one of the patch notes from late 2008 or 2009).
That's not stopping them from doing what they did for Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2... released it as DLC that you have to pay for (while PC users get it free).
For that matter, Left 4 Dead 2 had a new one of those today.
There's some irony there. What's interesting is back in 1985 Commodore seemed bloody unstoppable. They sold more PCs than anyone before or after. But then Jack Trameil left and they got lazy. After his departure investors saw this big money making machine and milked it dry with little foresight. Their arrogance really was Commodore's epic downfall. Right.. apples and oranges in a way, but lately Apple seems to be opening the doors to the same kind of arrogant path.
And yet some people swear by the Amiga. I've never used one, but from what people say, it was ahead of its time.
(at the time of this posting, the last line in the summary was "would give Apple a huge advantage over it's competitors")
I blame the English language. Having "'s" mean possessive for nouns/proper nouns (the vampire's crypt), but not for pronouns (its crypt), was just a stupid decision.
The script mentions both OS X and Linux, and after a quick Google search I couldn't find anything about HLDS on OS X. So I'm going to assume that it's for the Steam client. Unless they're porting HLDS to OS X, which I haven't heard anything about.
Feel free to correct me though.
Valve announced on March 9, 2010 that they were porting all their Source-based games to Mac. Your Mac Questions Answered from the TF2 Blog has more details.
Valve is staffed by people who only know how to work with the shit x86 CPU connected to a big fat expensive graphic card style architecture.
They don't have anyone competent in modern graphics hardware systems like the PS3.
Last time I checked, all of their Source games were available on the Xbox 360, too, which uses a PowerPC architecture.
Having said that, Team Fortress 2 apparently runs into memory issues with the 360 due to its texture resolution... and the number of additional textures added to the PC version in its various updates. Which is why the 360 version has never had said updates.
Well, with McAfee, the cure has been worse than the disease for over a decade now. But the cure is easier to explain to management.
If the cure temporarily kills my machine, that's still considerably better than stealing information from it or the other computers on the network, and/or making my computer attack other computers.
EA used to be a brilliant company, many years ago, when it called itself EOA. Times change, companies go to waste, and earn my filter badge. Even EA turned into a piece of garbage, not worthy of my attention (and, worse, money).
While the old logo on the Commodore 64 looked liked it said EOA, I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be ECA.
Yes, I'm sorry, I guess having my UI change randomly from version to version is a GOOD thing! (See Also: Microsoft Office 2007 criticism)
This version, the random changes I ran into were: 1. The TaskBar icon thing. 2. Moving tabs up to the title bar. Or maybe I should refer to this one as "breaking the title bar's click and drag behavior."
But it's like this every version.
10.0 (or was it 9.5) decided that the new tab button should be moved from its fixed place on the left to move farther to the right as new tabs appeared. It is unclear why exactly Opera did this, presumably so it looked more like IE7. (I'm aware that FireFox did the same thing.)
9.5 turned all the icons from their colorful versions to black, with the exception of the Go, Stop, and Refresh buttons (iirc).
IIRC, Chrome and IE8 do the same on Windows 7; I believe it was part of Microsoft's HIG for Win7. Probably the next Firefox will do the same, too.
Pages 753-775 of the Windows 7 Human Interface Guidelines talk about the Taskbar. The problem is, page 759 alone has two conflicting statements:
"Each program (specifically, each program perceived as a separate program) should have a single taskbar button."
after which, for one of the examples, they list "Workspace tabs." Workspace is only defined in terms of menus (on page 855) as an area that a menu bar is attached to. Maddeningly vague.
Here's the thing: I use both Open in New Window and Open in New Tab in my web browser... usually Open in New Tab because I want just one TaskBar icon to reduce clutter. In fact, isn't that one of the reasons tabs were introduced?
Except when each tab creates a new Task Bar button, they are virtually the same as windows. You might as well just ditch the tab bar at that point and regain the visual space that the now useless tab bar takes. But I'd rather not do that, I'd rather have just a single icon for my browser again, because each browser window (not tab) is "perceived as a separate program."
I'm targetting Opera specifically, because they seem hell bent on copying whatever new UI crap IE implements... moving the new tab button from the left to the right, hiding menus by default, etc...
In case it wasn't obvious from my post, I switched to Opera during version 8.5 (when it became ad-free) after getting frustrated with Firefox 1.5.x (either that or early 2.0.x) memory leaks.
I switched to Firefox 3 Beta from Opera when Opera hit 9.5 and its hideous UI graphics redesign (the "all-black icons" may be great for colorblind people, but not for me).
Simply put, Firefox doesn't generally screw with my interface on Every. Single. Minor version change (in major.minor.patch versioning that is). Opera didn't through 9.2 either.
I don't want to have to configure my browser to turn off every new quirk they introduce in each and every version.
I hate the new look. I especially hate the new Windows 7 "tabs as a task bar button" crap; part of the reason I use tabbed browsing is so that the tabs I'm not currently using are still open, but out of the way, which is no longer the case in Opera.
Opera is the only browser I know of that, in the past three major versions (9.5, 10.0, 10.5), has taken steps backwards in general usability.
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Yeah, the guy above me posted the correct meaning. However, since Slashdot doesn't let you delete posts once you've made them, and I was typing this comment at the time he posted his comment...
Disclaimer: I don't know Japanese, so this is second-hand.
From what I've heard, Wa in Japanese means opposite. W is also conveniently M upside-down (hence why it's Wario and not Wamario).
However, you'll notice that Luigi's counterpart is Waluigi.
The money Apple spent on the marketing campaign to drive up the hype of said new model, which is no longer going to be something shiny and new when it's officially announced?
No, because that's a future event. Google's activities occurred in the past, and somewhere there is actual data that says exactly what Google was collecting. The person I replied to was speaking as if Google collecting just SSIDs and MAC addresses was fact, when neither he nor I know that for sure.
Really? You know that for sure?
In that case...
[Citation needed]
(you knew it was coming).
The problem is that certain companies have muffed things for the rest of us.
For example, say a person wanted to play the latest WiFi-enabled DS games on their DSi, which supports WPA2.
Nintendo made an idiotic mistake for the DS by putting the WiFi configuration tool in each WiFi supported game, rather than in the system's settings. This DS version of this tool only supports WEP. Therefore, a DSi that plays DS Internet games must connect to a WEP wireless network. Whoops.
Haiku is based on
the number of syllables
per line, not words 'yo!
The Steam store notes which games available through it have additional DRM.
There's a reason I didn't buy the PC version of Batman: Arkham Asylum through Steam when it was on sale...
Valve has, however, backported some features from a newer version of the game engine (specifically, some code from Left 4 Dead). This includes both the recent addition of AI bots to KOTH maps and some modifications of the graphics code (I can't remember what exactly, it's in one of the patch notes from late 2008 or 2009).
That's not stopping them from doing what they did for Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2... released it as DLC that you have to pay for (while PC users get it free).
For that matter, Left 4 Dead 2 had a new one of those today.
I can't view teamfortress.com directly here at work (even Google's cache of it is blocked), so here's hoping Google gave me the right link.
TF2 Blog entry explaining why the Xbox 360 version hasn't been done. Note, this is from April 2, 2009.
And yet some people swear by the Amiga. I've never used one, but from what people say, it was ahead of its time.
The best part of waking up, is FUD in your cup!
[Citation needed]
ARM has a lot of customers. You seriously think places like Motorola or Nokia aren't bigger ARM customers than Apple?
I blame the English language. Having "'s" mean possessive for nouns/proper nouns (the vampire's crypt), but not for pronouns (its crypt), was just a stupid decision.
Valve announced on March 9, 2010 that they were porting all their Source-based games to Mac. Your Mac Questions Answered from the TF2 Blog has more details.
Last time I checked, all of their Source games were available on the Xbox 360, too, which uses a PowerPC architecture.
Having said that, Team Fortress 2 apparently runs into memory issues with the 360 due to its texture resolution... and the number of additional textures added to the PC version in its various updates. Which is why the 360 version has never had said updates.
If the cure temporarily kills my machine, that's still considerably better than stealing information from it or the other computers on the network, and/or making my computer attack other computers.
While the old logo on the Commodore 64 looked liked it said EOA, I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be ECA.
It was given back... after it was sold to the media. Whoops.
Sure!
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...wrong Kermit?
Yes, I'm sorry, I guess having my UI change randomly from version to version is a GOOD thing! (See Also: Microsoft Office 2007 criticism)
This version, the random changes I ran into were:
1. The TaskBar icon thing.
2. Moving tabs up to the title bar. Or maybe I should refer to this one as "breaking the title bar's click and drag behavior."
But it's like this every version.
10.0 (or was it 9.5) decided that the new tab button should be moved from its fixed place on the left to move farther to the right as new tabs appeared. It is unclear why exactly Opera did this, presumably so it looked more like IE7. (I'm aware that FireFox did the same thing.)
9.5 turned all the icons from their colorful versions to black, with the exception of the Go, Stop, and Refresh buttons (iirc).
Pages 753-775 of the Windows 7 Human Interface Guidelines talk about the Taskbar. The problem is, page 759 alone has two conflicting statements:
"Each program (specifically, each program perceived as a separate program) should have a single taskbar button."
after which, for one of the examples, they list "Workspace tabs." Workspace is only defined in terms of menus (on page 855) as an area that a menu bar is attached to. Maddeningly vague.
Here's the thing: I use both Open in New Window and Open in New Tab in my web browser... usually Open in New Tab because I want just one TaskBar icon to reduce clutter. In fact, isn't that one of the reasons tabs were introduced?
Except when each tab creates a new Task Bar button, they are virtually the same as windows. You might as well just ditch the tab bar at that point and regain the visual space that the now useless tab bar takes. But I'd rather not do that, I'd rather have just a single icon for my browser again, because each browser window (not tab) is "perceived as a separate program."
I'm targetting Opera specifically, because they seem hell bent on copying whatever new UI crap IE implements... moving the new tab button from the left to the right, hiding menus by default, etc...
In case it wasn't obvious from my post, I switched to Opera during version 8.5 (when it became ad-free) after getting frustrated with Firefox 1.5.x (either that or early 2.0.x) memory leaks.
I switched to Firefox 3 Beta from Opera when Opera hit 9.5 and its hideous UI graphics redesign (the "all-black icons" may be great for colorblind people, but not for me).
Simply put, Firefox doesn't generally screw with my interface on Every. Single. Minor version change (in major.minor.patch versioning that is). Opera didn't through 9.2 either.
I don't want to have to configure my browser to turn off every new quirk they introduce in each and every version.
I've looked at Opera 10.5.
I hate the new look. I especially hate the new Windows 7 "tabs as a task bar button" crap; part of the reason I use tabbed browsing is so that the tabs I'm not currently using are still open, but out of the way, which is no longer the case in Opera.
Opera is the only browser I know of that, in the past three major versions (9.5, 10.0, 10.5), has taken steps backwards in general usability.