How about the funds raised by Assange to the tune of about $5 million, to start WikiLeaks and then complains about running out of money. WTF?!?! Where did all the money go? Good grief I could run WikiLeaks on less than $500 a month. Why in the world they thought they needed $5 million I will never know. You start asking people for $5 million and you end up selling your soul to get it. Anyone who would give him anything close to $5 million put serious strings on it. The question is what strings and how many people put up what with serious strings on it.
Assange climbed in to bed with George Soros. Whatever he gets he deserves. When you play with nasty people and power hungry people you get burned and they will destroy you if they don't get what you promised them, or what they want. You join forces with radicals, don't be surprised when they turn on you.
So if you agree to play Russian roulette and I grab the gun with 5 out of 6 rounds loaded, and aim it at you, and you change your mind, too bad? You just made a crappy choice and you should have to live with it huh. You and a buddy think about robbing a bank, plan it out, buy all the tools load them up in a van and drive to the bank, then change your mind at the last minute....too late you already decided, it doesn't matter that you changed your mind to not rob the bank. You have to rob the bank anyway with your buddy who still wants to do it. You tell me you will adopt this dog from me, and then change your mind. Nope too late you already decided, you have to take the dog, too bad you made a crap decision.
That is the most stupid line of reasoning I have ever heard.
Actually in the latest round of releases he did exactly that. He and the newspapers asked the US government what names they needed protected, and those names were blacked out. Even the newspapers have reported that some names were blacked out to protect them. So please stop spreading false information.
They are already doing unlawful arrests and detainment of American citizens. It's called the Patriot Act, and yes they have disappeared/arrested a number of American citizens over the years since.
The one I can't find now that was pretty well known, was the programmer who worked for...I think Oracle, and the FBI came in one day and arrested him and then no one knew where he was, and they wouldn't even say why he was arrested or anything. No lawyer, no phone call, no nothing, just poof and he was gone. Finally his senator or congressmen had to get involved.
They keep comparing these to X-Rays that you get at the hospital. If that is so then I have a major problem with that. Hospitals require X-Ray techs to go to school for what...1 year maybe more and then be certified? How long are TSA employees trained, maybe 3 weeks if lucky, in a lot of cases 1 week. I don't know that seems a bit messed up to me. http://xraytechnicianschools.org/
Oh you mean the ozone that protects everyone here on earth is suddenly gone when flying? Wow that's dangerous. I'll have to keep that mind when I think about fly. (/sarcasm)
I have heard lots of people saying that but absolutely no science to back that statement up.
The NTSB says the odd for car accidents are: The odds of dying in a car accident in a given year are 1 in 18,585. The odds of simply being in a car accident in a given year are 1 in 5,889. http://www.ntsb.gov/
Oh you mean the ozone that protects everyone on earth suddenly disappears when we fly? Wow I didn't know that. I'll have to keep that in mind for the next time I fly.
Oh so we don't want effective, efficient, useful and reasonable cost, but rather a huge production with lots of people on the payroll, lots of eye candy to make it look good, and lots of fancy equipment to buy from former government insiders. Ok got it. Thanks for clearing that up.
Here is an article about how the TSA does *NOT* have the right to ask you for ID. Even their own in house legislative guy says this. There is a copy of the letter he sent out on TSA letter head stating that.
Umm I think you missed the news announcement. They are already testing this at bus stations and train stations. So there is no need to wait, it is already here.
So it would seem that they are only left with us traveling by car. Although I hear that they have vans with the scanners in them and are going to use them at the borders to scan cars without people getting out them. Here is the company that is selling them. http://www.as-e.com/
So it only a matter of time before the TSA is everywhere scanning everyone at the rate they are going.
I think one thing people forget is that the United States isn't necessarily about safety, but rather freedom. Out founding fore-fathers thought that freedom was much more important than safety which is part of why they set up the government the way that they did.
Now should we be lawless, no of course not. We absolutely should not be trading away freedoms in order to feel or be more secure though. Give me Constitutional freedoms, rather than security any day.
That's funny. Even the link you quote says that the United States isn't a Representative Democracy, but rather a Constitutional Republic.
"the United States relies on representative democracy, but its system of government is much more complex than that. It is not a simple representative democracy, but a constitutional republic in which majority rule is tempered."[2]
America (USA) is and always has been about protecting the minority, and God willing always will be about protecting the minority of people, rather than mob rule.
Hmm I could have sworn that I have seen several companies who are doing exactly that. Offering open source routing platforms to take on Cisco and other high end routers.
Plus there was Alteon who was bought out by Nortel that was doing a lot of open source stuff. I worked with them before they got bought out. I also know of a few other companies around the same period who were open sourcing the software that ran on top of their hardware as well.
You might be surprised at how much stuff out there is open source because they are selling you the custom hardware (ASICs/whatever) not the software that runs on top of it.
Not sure that that Peacewalkers was the best title for the game. It brings up intimidate images of Snake being 65 years old and using a walker with those tennis balls on the feet to get around like you see seniors doing at the malls. LOL
Only a 1/4 is oil free....at the moment. I thought I read or heard somewhere that they were worried about the oil slicks/spill getting caught in some water flow thing and coming around the coast of Florida and up the Eastern Sea Board, not to mention every other country and island near there. So it may only be a limited amount of time that the beaches are clean and able to be enjoyed before most of Florida and parts of the Eastern Sea Board are a complete mess, let alone all of the Gulf of Mexico areas. Time will tell for sure.
Only one small problem with Silverlight, or it might be a major problem depending on why you need Silverlight. Most of the end users I know are waiting for Moonlight on Linux to support the DRM stuff from Microsoft so they can finally watch Netflix streaming on Linux. Once that is done, or Netflix moves so something a bit more open/standardized then most users won't care as Moonlight would then be good enough.
Netflix streaming video is the main reason, maybe the only reason, most end users care about Silverlight at all.
So what everyone should wait on Microsoft to release a service pack? I think not! If everyone waited that long then the bad guys would have a field day. If you think researchers are the only ones who know about these bugs then you haven't been a system admin for long enough. You also clearly aren't following anything going on in the underground community. These bugs are researched all the time by huge numbers of bad guys these days. Why? Because there are entire underground markets to sell these bug exploits for huge money these days, to other hackers, companies, groups who do bad things (terrorist/activists) and governments. I used to know of at least 2 different market places in the past where you could buy these exploits and viruses, and I am sure there are even more such places now.
Waiting more than a week for a vendor to fix a bug, before forcing their hand with a public release is a nightmare. The longer you wait the higher the probability is that someone has quietly got into your system or network without you knowing and is having a field day with your systems. Publicly annoucing security problems and letting everyone know to be on the look out for attacks like these is the only way to go.
Historically vendors have down played security bug reports. They have gone so far as to tell people that no such bug was possible and that they can't duplicate the problem, thus it isn't a problem and doesn't need to be fixed. Vendors have tried to sue and threaten researchers in to not releasing information of any kind so they don't have to be bothered to fix the problem.
Full public disclosure after a limited period of time of a week or so, is the only way to make sure that vendors fix the problem and don't try to bury them.
Can you prove that Microsoft hasn't know about this for years and never bothered to do a thing about because they didn't want to spend the money to fix it since they thought well no one knows about it or complained about it, so it isn't a problem, and thus doesn't need to be fixed? I know of several cases in the past were that exact thing was done by Microsoft and only when people started screaming about it to everyone and the press picked up that Microsoft bothered to fix the problem. I know for a fact that a few researchers in the past reported bugs to Microsoft and they sat on them for over a year. That is no way to handle security fixes. That smacks of screw the safety of our customers, we don't care, we just want them to buy our latest thing, and we don't want to do anything that we aren't being paid for, even if we should have caught this a long time ago.
If a industry leading OS vendor who has a legally declared monopoly doesn't have a process in place to fix serious reported bugs in 5-7 days, after what 10-15 years as an OS company, then they deserve everything they get. Microsoft is the largest software company in the world. They should have had a team in place for years to deal with these kinds of reports and have a process in place to get a "hotfix" out within a few days and a serious stable long term solution with a week or two max. If Microsoft can't manage that then they simple just don't care, and aren't willing to spend the money to fix the problems that are their own creation.
That is simply putting profits above the health of their customers computer systems and networks. Which is in my opinion crappy ethics, and being a poor American corporate company.
If they aren't there, then how in the world are you able to "still accidentally click on them"? That doesn't make any sense. You said it makes them not displayed, but you can click on them? How in the world can you click on something that isn't displayed? That makes no sense at all.
If your not getting you ads blocked then I would suspect that you have something set up wrong on your copy of Chrome. I get the ads blocked no problem on my install. Also if there are elements that you want blocked further then install Blocker for Chrome. That will get the other HTML elements blocked that you don't want as well. So that is another option.
I thought there was a big fuss a few years back about how vendors didn't respond to researchers and how they took forever to fix problems with close sourced software. So the industry decided that 5-7 days after letting a vendor know about a problem that everyone would release the information so that everyone would know about rather than just the bad guys and so system admins would know to watch for that type of attack and force the vendor to fix it in a timely manner.
Seem like this is just standard timing since vendors have gotten in the habit of ignoring researchers and not spending the time and resources to fix problems that they should have tested for in the beginning and most of the time don't want to bother fixing. Historically companies have not wanted to spend manpower and money required to fix program bugs. They more want to fix them when they get around to having the free time a few months later to fix the bugs. After all bug fixes don't make them any money. If I remember correctly there was a quote from Microsoft saying that exact thing. "People don't want bug fixes, they want new features and bells and whistles instead." So if Microsoft really feels that way then this shouldn't bother them at all, since people don't care about having bugs fixed.
The quote was from German weekly magazine FOCUS (nr.43, October 23,1995, pages 206-212). Bill Gates was being interviewed when he made statements to that effect.
If you treat program bugs as a PR issue, then don't be surprised when people use PR against you for bugs you don't want to be bothered to fixed, in a timely manner historically.
I posted a year ago saying the only thing left, was for one of the Guitar/Band games to add keyboards to their games, then they would finally catch up with Konami.
Komani did this years ago in the arcade and on the PSX and PS2. Yes the linked all their KeyboardMania, DrumMania, and GuitarFreaks systems together into 1 giant band arcade setup. Very few arcades outside of Japan ever bothered though. The main problem that Konami had was that they didn't bother to have their in company bands copy US music hits like Harmonix did in the beginning. Konami tried to do all their own music and stuff that was popular in Japan which is part of the reason why it didn't take off in a huge way in the US, let alone Europe.
I have no idea if the new Rock Band 3 will allow you to have 2 keyboard players at the same time in the band, but I will say that Konami already did this in their arcade link up. So you could have 2 guitars, 1 drummer, and 2 keyboard players all playing at the same time on the same song. So you could have 5 people playing on the Konami system. I seriously doubt that Rock Band 3 will be good enough to have 5 instrument players and 1-2 vocalists.
I would imagine that one of the Open Source band game programs will probably eventually have up to 6 or 7 players with a variety of instruments playable. I suspect that it will probably Frets on Fire that gets there first before some of the others. The only issue is if/how-fast they can add 2 or 3 part harmonies to the software. I know that some of the open source Sing-Star clones are already doing 2 part harmonies, so I would think others could do the same.
Now they only need to add the last part of the mix that I have talked about for awhile, to finish the stealing from Konami. They just need to add Dance-Dance-Revolution to the band mix for those back-up singers and dancers you see on stage at some concerts. Add that and the music rhythm games will be all in one for everyone. Then you will have the ultimate rythym/band game. LOL
So to recap, just mix GuitarFreaks, KeyboardMania, DrumMania, Sing-Star, and Dance-Dance-Revolution and the rhythm game field will be all-in-one and the innovation will be over, and we can finally move on to something else.
Yes, I am kind of being sarcastic and trying to be a bit funny, and no I don't ask why people don't learn to play a real instrument instead. Who wants to spend months learning to play a popular song for fun on a real instrument instead of just pressing a few buttons to have fun with a party type game.
HP Web Printing does this and Move Media Player does this. Both are old plug-ins that are disabled because they don't work with the current version of Firefox that I have, and they won't update, and I can't uninstall them either. So there are many companies that are making Firefox add-ons/plug-ins that are not able to be installed. That should not be an option at all. If you can't uninstall it then it shouldn't be possible to install it all. This is something that Mozilla/Firefox people need to work on fixing.
The Move Media Player is what you have to have to watch streaming TV from the CW network. HP Web Printing was installed when I installed the drivers and software for my printer. Now I am stuck with both of them that don't work and can't be removed and won't update either.
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How about the funds raised by Assange to the tune of about $5 million, to start WikiLeaks and then complains about running out of money. WTF?!?! Where did all the money go? Good grief I could run WikiLeaks on less than $500 a month. Why in the world they thought they needed $5 million I will never know. You start asking people for $5 million and you end up selling your soul to get it. Anyone who would give him anything close to $5 million put serious strings on it. The question is what strings and how many people put up what with serious strings on it.
Assange climbed in to bed with George Soros. Whatever he gets he deserves. When you play with nasty people and power hungry people you get burned and they will destroy you if they don't get what you promised them, or what they want. You join forces with radicals, don't be surprised when they turn on you.
So if you agree to play Russian roulette and I grab the gun with 5 out of 6 rounds loaded, and aim it at you, and you change your mind, too bad? You just made a crappy choice and you should have to live with it huh. You and a buddy think about robbing a bank, plan it out, buy all the tools load them up in a van and drive to the bank, then change your mind at the last minute....too late you already decided, it doesn't matter that you changed your mind to not rob the bank. You have to rob the bank anyway with your buddy who still wants to do it. You tell me you will adopt this dog from me, and then change your mind. Nope too late you already decided, you have to take the dog, too bad you made a crap decision.
That is the most stupid line of reasoning I have ever heard.
Actually in the latest round of releases he did exactly that. He and the newspapers asked the US government what names they needed protected, and those names were blacked out. Even the newspapers have reported that some names were blacked out to protect them. So please stop spreading false information.
They are already doing unlawful arrests and detainment of American citizens. It's called the Patriot Act, and yes they have disappeared/arrested a number of American citizens over the years since.
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04221.html
http://www.rense.com/general61/feds.htm
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5049867/
The one I can't find now that was pretty well known, was the programmer who worked for...I think Oracle, and the FBI came in one day and arrested him and then no one knew where he was, and they wouldn't even say why he was arrested or anything. No lawyer, no phone call, no nothing, just poof and he was gone. Finally his senator or congressmen had to get involved.
They keep comparing these to X-Rays that you get at the hospital. If that is so then I have a major problem with that. Hospitals require X-Ray techs to go to school for what...1 year maybe more and then be certified? How long are TSA employees trained, maybe 3 weeks if lucky, in a lot of cases 1 week. I don't know that seems a bit messed up to me.
http://xraytechnicianschools.org/
Oh you mean the ozone that protects everyone here on earth is suddenly gone when flying? Wow that's dangerous. I'll have to keep that mind when I think about fly. (/sarcasm)
I have heard lots of people saying that but absolutely no science to back that statement up.
Actually your odds are a bit high. The Wall Street Journal says:
The odds of dying in a terrorist attack on a plane in a given year are 1 in 25,000,000.
The odds of a Westerner being killed by a terrorist in a given year are 1 in 3,000,000.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703481004574646963713065116.html
The NTSB says the odd for car accidents are:
The odds of dying in a car accident in a given year are 1 in 18,585.
The odds of simply being in a car accident in a given year are 1 in 5,889.
http://www.ntsb.gov/
That was sarcasm in case you can't tell.
Oh you mean the ozone that protects everyone on earth suddenly disappears when we fly? Wow I didn't know that. I'll have to keep that in mind for the next time I fly.
Oh so we don't want effective, efficient, useful and reasonable cost, but rather a huge production with lots of people on the payroll, lots of eye candy to make it look good, and lots of fancy equipment to buy from former government insiders. Ok got it. Thanks for clearing that up.
Here is an article about how the TSA does *NOT* have the right to ask you for ID. Even their own in house legislative guy says this. There is a copy of the letter he sent out on TSA letter head stating that.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-9769089-46.html
http://files.dubfire.net/warner-tsa.pdf
Should make for some interesting fun at the airport if everyone starts doing this. LOL
Italy has decided to dump the full body scanners because they are slow and ineffective.
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/international/italy-to-abandon-airport-body-scanner-project
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/italy-to-abandon-airport-body-scanners-20100924-15pgu.html
http://www.euronews.net/2010/09/23/italian-airport-security-axing-body-scanners/
Seems to me that ought be a clear signal that they are just security theater.
Umm I think you missed the news announcement. They are already testing this at bus stations and train stations. So there is no need to wait, it is already here.
Here is the TSA patting people down at a bus station.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hT8hfrak9I
Looks like the TSA are already at train terminals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORdBoG8qv9w
So it would seem that they are only left with us traveling by car. Although I hear that they have vans with the scanners in them and are going to use them at the borders to scan cars without people getting out them. Here is the company that is selling them.
http://www.as-e.com/
So it only a matter of time before the TSA is everywhere scanning everyone at the rate they are going.
I think one thing people forget is that the United States isn't necessarily about safety, but rather freedom. Out founding fore-fathers thought that freedom was much more important than safety which is part of why they set up the government the way that they did.
Now should we be lawless, no of course not. We absolutely should not be trading away freedoms in order to feel or be more secure though. Give me Constitutional freedoms, rather than security any day.
That's funny. Even the link you quote says that the United States isn't a Representative Democracy, but rather a Constitutional Republic.
"the United States relies on representative democracy, but its system of government is much more complex than that. It is not a simple representative democracy, but a constitutional republic in which majority rule is tempered."[2]
America (USA) is and always has been about protecting the minority, and God willing always will be about protecting the minority of people, rather than mob rule.
Hmm I could have sworn that I have seen several companies who are doing exactly that. Offering open source routing platforms to take on Cisco and other high end routers.
Vyatta http://www.vyatta.com/
XORP http://www.xorp.org/
Plus there was Alteon who was bought out by Nortel that was doing a lot of open source stuff. I worked with them before they got bought out. I also know of a few other companies around the same period who were open sourcing the software that ran on top of their hardware as well.
You might be surprised at how much stuff out there is open source because they are selling you the custom hardware (ASICs/whatever) not the software that runs on top of it.
Not sure that that Peacewalkers was the best title for the game. It brings up intimidate images of Snake being 65 years old and using a walker with those tennis balls on the feet to get around like you see seniors doing at the malls. LOL
Only a 1/4 is oil free....at the moment. I thought I read or heard somewhere that they were worried about the oil slicks/spill getting caught in some water flow thing and coming around the coast of Florida and up the Eastern Sea Board, not to mention every other country and island near there. So it may only be a limited amount of time that the beaches are clean and able to be enjoyed before most of Florida and parts of the Eastern Sea Board are a complete mess, let alone all of the Gulf of Mexico areas. Time will tell for sure.
Only one small problem with Silverlight, or it might be a major problem depending on why you need Silverlight. Most of the end users I know are waiting for Moonlight on Linux to support the DRM stuff from Microsoft so they can finally watch Netflix streaming on Linux. Once that is done, or Netflix moves so something a bit more open/standardized then most users won't care as Moonlight would then be good enough.
Netflix streaming video is the main reason, maybe the only reason, most end users care about Silverlight at all.
So what everyone should wait on Microsoft to release a service pack? I think not! If everyone waited that long then the bad guys would have a field day. If you think researchers are the only ones who know about these bugs then you haven't been a system admin for long enough. You also clearly aren't following anything going on in the underground community. These bugs are researched all the time by huge numbers of bad guys these days. Why? Because there are entire underground markets to sell these bug exploits for huge money these days, to other hackers, companies, groups who do bad things (terrorist/activists) and governments. I used to know of at least 2 different market places in the past where you could buy these exploits and viruses, and I am sure there are even more such places now.
Waiting more than a week for a vendor to fix a bug, before forcing their hand with a public release is a nightmare. The longer you wait the higher the probability is that someone has quietly got into your system or network without you knowing and is having a field day with your systems. Publicly annoucing security problems and letting everyone know to be on the look out for attacks like these is the only way to go.
Historically vendors have down played security bug reports. They have gone so far as to tell people that no such bug was possible and that they can't duplicate the problem, thus it isn't a problem and doesn't need to be fixed. Vendors have tried to sue and threaten researchers in to not releasing information of any kind so they don't have to be bothered to fix the problem.
Full public disclosure after a limited period of time of a week or so, is the only way to make sure that vendors fix the problem and don't try to bury them.
Can you prove that Microsoft hasn't know about this for years and never bothered to do a thing about because they didn't want to spend the money to fix it since they thought well no one knows about it or complained about it, so it isn't a problem, and thus doesn't need to be fixed? I know of several cases in the past were that exact thing was done by Microsoft and only when people started screaming about it to everyone and the press picked up that Microsoft bothered to fix the problem. I know for a fact that a few researchers in the past reported bugs to Microsoft and they sat on them for over a year. That is no way to handle security fixes. That smacks of screw the safety of our customers, we don't care, we just want them to buy our latest thing, and we don't want to do anything that we aren't being paid for, even if we should have caught this a long time ago.
If a industry leading OS vendor who has a legally declared monopoly doesn't have a process in place to fix serious reported bugs in 5-7 days, after what 10-15 years as an OS company, then they deserve everything they get. Microsoft is the largest software company in the world. They should have had a team in place for years to deal with these kinds of reports and have a process in place to get a "hotfix" out within a few days and a serious stable long term solution with a week or two max. If Microsoft can't manage that then they simple just don't care, and aren't willing to spend the money to fix the problems that are their own creation.
That is simply putting profits above the health of their customers computer systems and networks. Which is in my opinion crappy ethics, and being a poor American corporate company.
If they aren't there, then how in the world are you able to "still accidentally click on them"? That doesn't make any sense. You said it makes them not displayed, but you can click on them? How in the world can you click on something that isn't displayed? That makes no sense at all.
If your not getting you ads blocked then I would suspect that you have something set up wrong on your copy of Chrome. I get the ads blocked no problem on my install. Also if there are elements that you want blocked further then install Blocker for Chrome. That will get the other HTML elements blocked that you don't want as well. So that is another option.
I thought there was a big fuss a few years back about how vendors didn't respond to researchers and how they took forever to fix problems with close sourced software. So the industry decided that 5-7 days after letting a vendor know about a problem that everyone would release the information so that everyone would know about rather than just the bad guys and so system admins would know to watch for that type of attack and force the vendor to fix it in a timely manner.
Seem like this is just standard timing since vendors have gotten in the habit of ignoring researchers and not spending the time and resources to fix problems that they should have tested for in the beginning and most of the time don't want to bother fixing. Historically companies have not wanted to spend manpower and money required to fix program bugs. They more want to fix them when they get around to having the free time a few months later to fix the bugs. After all bug fixes don't make them any money. If I remember correctly there was a quote from Microsoft saying that exact thing. "People don't want bug fixes, they want new features and bells and whistles instead." So if Microsoft really feels that way then this shouldn't bother them at all, since people don't care about having bugs fixed.
The quote was from German weekly magazine FOCUS (nr.43, October 23,1995, pages 206-212). Bill Gates was being interviewed when he made statements to that effect.
If you treat program bugs as a PR issue, then don't be surprised when people use PR against you for bugs you don't want to be bothered to fixed, in a timely manner historically.
I posted a year ago saying the only thing left, was for one of the Guitar/Band games to add keyboards to their games, then they would finally catch up with Konami.
Komani did this years ago in the arcade and on the PSX and PS2. Yes the linked all their KeyboardMania, DrumMania, and GuitarFreaks systems together into 1 giant band arcade setup. Very few arcades outside of Japan ever bothered though. The main problem that Konami had was that they didn't bother to have their in company bands copy US music hits like Harmonix did in the beginning. Konami tried to do all their own music and stuff that was popular in Japan which is part of the reason why it didn't take off in a huge way in the US, let alone Europe.
KeyboardMania (Arcade/PS2/PC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboardmania
DrumMania (Arcade/PS2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DrumMania
GuitarFreaks (Arcade/PSX/PS2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GuitarFreaks
I have no idea if the new Rock Band 3 will allow you to have 2 keyboard players at the same time in the band, but I will say that Konami already did this in their arcade link up. So you could have 2 guitars, 1 drummer, and 2 keyboard players all playing at the same time on the same song. So you could have 5 people playing on the Konami system. I seriously doubt that Rock Band 3 will be good enough to have 5 instrument players and 1-2 vocalists.
I would imagine that one of the Open Source band game programs will probably eventually have up to 6 or 7 players with a variety of instruments playable. I suspect that it will probably Frets on Fire that gets there first before some of the others. The only issue is if/how-fast they can add 2 or 3 part harmonies to the software. I know that some of the open source Sing-Star clones are already doing 2 part harmonies, so I would think others could do the same.
Now they only need to add the last part of the mix that I have talked about for awhile, to finish the stealing from Konami. They just need to add Dance-Dance-Revolution to the band mix for those back-up singers and dancers you see on stage at some concerts. Add that and the music rhythm games will be all in one for everyone. Then you will have the ultimate rythym/band game. LOL
So to recap, just mix GuitarFreaks, KeyboardMania, DrumMania, Sing-Star, and Dance-Dance-Revolution and the rhythm game field will be all-in-one and the innovation will be over, and we can finally move on to something else.
Yes, I am kind of being sarcastic and trying to be a bit funny, and no I don't ask why people don't learn to play a real instrument instead. Who wants to spend months learning to play a popular song for fun on a real instrument instead of just pressing a few buttons to have fun with a party type game.
HP Web Printing does this and Move Media Player does this. Both are old plug-ins that are disabled because they don't work with the current version of Firefox that I have, and they won't update, and I can't uninstall them either. So there are many companies that are making Firefox add-ons/plug-ins that are not able to be installed. That should not be an option at all. If you can't uninstall it then it shouldn't be possible to install it all. This is something that Mozilla/Firefox people need to work on fixing.
The Move Media Player is what you have to have to watch streaming TV from the CW network. HP Web Printing was installed when I installed the drivers and software for my printer. Now I am stuck with both of them that don't work and can't be removed and won't update either.