How do we go about ensuring some sort of repercussions happen as a result of this? It seems to me that the Conservatives are able to pull off all kinds of stuff time and time again, without any effect.
Should we, as voters, start recall campaigns? Or is there some mechanism for Elections Canada to invalidate an election?
Having just spent the last 13 hours trying to play a multiplayer game with 4 other people, I'm sadly disappointed in the state of the multiplayer game. Not only is it missing features (like saving, joining as AI, showing a *progress bar* when loading), but it's extremely temperamental and buggy.
Firaxis sadly seems to have adopted the 'release now and patch later' attitude so prevalent in PC gaming studios these days. Hopefully a patch will be forthcoming, but at the moment I'm disappointed.
Isn't the publication of this contest somewhat misrepresentation? The excerpt from the rules makes it quite clear the prize will go to the person downloading after the 999,999,999th app, which does in fact make downloading anything now pointless.
However, on the main page of the promotion, it says "Download an app and you'll automatically get the chance to win..." which suggests that each download you make now gives you an equal chance of winning when actually there isn't any chance now, and won't be until right before the counter ticks over.
This really strikes a chord with me, as I spent about 6 hours on the phone with InfoSat the other day trying to get our satellite connections functioning properly, in the remote part of Northwest canada that I'm currently located in.
What ended up fixing it was when the tech tried 'upgrading our service', then suddenly all was better. My suggestion is just to keep riding them until they fix it. You're paying a lot of money for a reason, and you should be getting your money's worth.
Also, if you're going through a subcontractor I highly recommend bypassing them and contacting the real provider directly, as that was the only way I could solve my problem.
You know, graphics don't make a game. Good gameplay and storyline do. The graphics for Darwinia are also fabulous looking, they just aren't the standard type. Also, if this was free and open source for linux it wouldn't exist. The people at Introversion need to pay for their room and board somehow.
I'm afraid you're rather mistaken. Not only did Ambrosia Software publish the mac version of Uplink, they are also publishing the mac version of Darwinia. Look here for more information: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/news/upcoming/
I still manage to get along fine with my old Geforce 2MX.
It runs everything I throw at it. Newest stuff at low detail, but when you consider that its all 3 years old thats pretty good.
There is no real reason for needing the BEST and the LATEST card. It's pointless. Just another way for graphics card designers to suck more money from you.
XGrid does NOT need to run on Xserves. People seem to be drawing that conclusion from somewhere.
You can use it on any machines capable of running OS X (10.2 though, I believe).
The reason it gets quite interesting is because the average person can set up something somewhat powerful with the desktops laying around their house.
I for one, have 5 Mac machines in my house that have lots of idle time. I could install XGrid and use that idle time efficiently to perform distributed tasks. (of course, I would have to figure out what to do first)
"Anyone can download the technology preview today, which includes a kit that lets programmers add functionality to Xgrid for more advanced job control."
The download can be found at: http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/acgresearch.html
What I meant was that the biggest problem Windows has is how all the Microsoft applications are integrated together, to some element at least.
I did not say that there is no interconnectivity on Mac OS.
He keeps saying Mac OS X is outdated, and Longhorn will be much more superior. He even goes on to list all these 'exciting' new features found in conjunction with Palladium.
Palladium stops viruses and worms. The system won't run unauthorized programs, preventing viruses from trashing your system.
Funny, my Mac never gets any worms or viruses. Hmm, maybe its because the OS is better designed, contrary to what he says above. Hardware is not the correct approach to stopping these things. The operating system has to be designed in a security concious way. This includes not enabling programs to have full access to OS resources. Microsofts largest problem is the interconnnectivity between every piece of MS software, including the OS.
Palladium stops spam. Spam will be stopped before it even hits your email inbox. Unsolicited mail that you might actually want to receive will be allowed through if it has credentials that meet your user-defined standards.
Hmm, strange, I can do this perfectly well on my 'badly designed' OS. In fact its not the OS's responsability, its the responsobility of the e-mail client. Also, hardware is not giong to help solve this, its a software issue.
Palladium safeguards privacy. In addition to the system's ability to seal data on your PC, Palladium can also seal data sent across the Internet using software agents that ensure the data reaches only the proper people. Newsweek reports that the agent has been nicknamed "My Man," a goof on ".NET My Services," "My Documents," and other similar names at Microsoft.
I believe this is commonly called encryption. Something thats been available for quite some time.
Palladium controls information after it's sent from your PC. Using Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology, Palladium can be used to securely distribute music, movies, and other intellectual property securely over the Internet. Movie studios and the recording industry could use this technology to let their customers exercise their fair use rights to copy audio CDs and movies, for example. "It's a funny thing," says Bill Gates. "We came at this thinking about music, but then we realized that e-mail and documents were far more interesting domains." Gates says that Palladium could ensure that email designated as private could not be forwarded or copied to other people, for example. Or, the Newsweek reports reads, "you could create Word documents that could be read only in the next week. In all cases, it would be the user, not Microsoft, who sets these policies."
This is just going to give you headaches. They intend for it to be used in offices and large businesses. Of course, you have to set up a dedicated DRM server and authorize every person's machine to have access. When employees come and go, you have to worry about making sure they are given access, and that access is revoked when they leave.
This is also going to be disasterous for cross-platform applications. The DRM files will simply not work on anything but Windows Longhorn and newer. Also, you would have to have NEW HARDWARE to use it. If a business decides to implement this, they must upgrade EVERY SINGLE machine! Not the most economically sound business decision, in my opinion.
Don't you ever hate it when you are trying to get a song off, say Kazaa. And either nobody has it, or nobody stays on long enough. Maybe its low, crappy, quality, or the download speed is really bad. You don't get these problems with paid services. I think they have shown that they will be at least partially succecssful by the use they have gotten already.
How do we know there is nothing out there till we go there? Who knows, maybe there are new minerals we could find on mars. There probably are, but we will not find them until we at least run some sample return missions, or more preferably, send people there.
You say that power generation is uneconomical. I recently saw something in the paper about beaming power using lasers in connection with a NASA test. It seems like they have found a rather efficient way to beam power using lasers. This could eventually result in limitless power from the sun. If we parked solar panels near the sun or orbiting the earth, we could generate massive amounts of power. For free.
You might be surprised. Sometimes they wil even do free service on out-of-warranty products if its a 'known issue'.
My 5-year-old Blue&White G3 monitor died a few months ago. It was making sparking noises and a funny smell when you turned it on.
I called Apple up, they said it was a known issue and shipped me a new one for free.
It sounds like you are past the point of being able to fix it yourself. If you haven't already, try checking the Apple Knowledgebase, and removing cards as was suggested above. If it still fails, take it to a local Apple repair shop.
There really is no way to speed it up, that is economical. This technology is mainly for use in long distances, since it would take less time to go really far. This is just a test bed for it. The moon will still be there in 15 months.
Ion propulsion technology has been around for quite some time, but has not been used for much else then the deep space probes. Its nice to see it getting some more use.
Its also good that other countries are getting more involved with space. Its been far too limited with really only one country going up, since Russia does few launches anymore.
I just hope the space program starts to pick up finally after the shuttle tragedy.
Of course, I am assuming that they have sharing turned on so it can bu used between the computers. Also, you can have guest access set up, which I assume he was since the neighbour was able to get on and find something telling who the computer belonged to.
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How do we go about ensuring some sort of repercussions happen as a result of this? It seems to me that the Conservatives are able to pull off all kinds of stuff time and time again, without any effect. Should we, as voters, start recall campaigns? Or is there some mechanism for Elections Canada to invalidate an election?
Having just spent the last 13 hours trying to play a multiplayer game with 4 other people, I'm sadly disappointed in the state of the multiplayer game. Not only is it missing features (like saving, joining as AI, showing a *progress bar* when loading), but it's extremely temperamental and buggy. Firaxis sadly seems to have adopted the 'release now and patch later' attitude so prevalent in PC gaming studios these days. Hopefully a patch will be forthcoming, but at the moment I'm disappointed.
Isn't the publication of this contest somewhat misrepresentation? The excerpt from the rules makes it quite clear the prize will go to the person downloading after the 999,999,999th app, which does in fact make downloading anything now pointless. However, on the main page of the promotion, it says "Download an app and you'll automatically get the chance to win..." which suggests that each download you make now gives you an equal chance of winning when actually there isn't any chance now, and won't be until right before the counter ticks over.
This really strikes a chord with me, as I spent about 6 hours on the phone with InfoSat the other day trying to get our satellite connections functioning properly, in the remote part of Northwest canada that I'm currently located in. What ended up fixing it was when the tech tried 'upgrading our service', then suddenly all was better. My suggestion is just to keep riding them until they fix it. You're paying a lot of money for a reason, and you should be getting your money's worth. Also, if you're going through a subcontractor I highly recommend bypassing them and contacting the real provider directly, as that was the only way I could solve my problem.
You know, graphics don't make a game. Good gameplay and storyline do. The graphics for Darwinia are also fabulous looking, they just aren't the standard type. Also, if this was free and open source for linux it wouldn't exist. The people at Introversion need to pay for their room and board somehow.
I'm afraid you're rather mistaken. Not only did Ambrosia Software publish the mac version of Uplink, they are also publishing the mac version of Darwinia. Look here for more information: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/news/upcoming/
I still manage to get along fine with my old Geforce 2MX. It runs everything I throw at it. Newest stuff at low detail, but when you consider that its all 3 years old thats pretty good. There is no real reason for needing the BEST and the LATEST card. It's pointless. Just another way for graphics card designers to suck more money from you.
XGrid does NOT need to run on Xserves. People seem to be drawing that conclusion from somewhere. You can use it on any machines capable of running OS X (10.2 though, I believe). The reason it gets quite interesting is because the average person can set up something somewhat powerful with the desktops laying around their house. I for one, have 5 Mac machines in my house that have lots of idle time. I could install XGrid and use that idle time efficiently to perform distributed tasks. (of course, I would have to figure out what to do first)
What I meant was that the biggest problem Windows has is how all the Microsoft applications are integrated together, to some element at least. I did not say that there is no interconnectivity on Mac OS.
Don't you ever hate it when you are trying to get a song off, say Kazaa. And either nobody has it, or nobody stays on long enough. Maybe its low, crappy, quality, or the download speed is really bad. You don't get these problems with paid services. I think they have shown that they will be at least partially succecssful by the use they have gotten already.
How do we know there is nothing out there till we go there? Who knows, maybe there are new minerals we could find on mars. There probably are, but we will not find them until we at least run some sample return missions, or more preferably, send people there. You say that power generation is uneconomical. I recently saw something in the paper about beaming power using lasers in connection with a NASA test. It seems like they have found a rather efficient way to beam power using lasers. This could eventually result in limitless power from the sun. If we parked solar panels near the sun or orbiting the earth, we could generate massive amounts of power. For free.
You might be surprised. Sometimes they wil even do free service on out-of-warranty products if its a 'known issue'. My 5-year-old Blue&White G3 monitor died a few months ago. It was making sparking noises and a funny smell when you turned it on. I called Apple up, they said it was a known issue and shipped me a new one for free. It sounds like you are past the point of being able to fix it yourself. If you haven't already, try checking the Apple Knowledgebase, and removing cards as was suggested above. If it still fails, take it to a local Apple repair shop.
It still does carry fuel, the xenon gas. It just uses very little to go any distance.
There really is no way to speed it up, that is economical. This technology is mainly for use in long distances, since it would take less time to go really far. This is just a test bed for it. The moon will still be there in 15 months.
Ion propulsion technology has been around for quite some time, but has not been used for much else then the deep space probes. Its nice to see it getting some more use. Its also good that other countries are getting more involved with space. Its been far too limited with really only one country going up, since Russia does few launches anymore. I just hope the space program starts to pick up finally after the shuttle tragedy.
Of course, I am assuming that they have sharing turned on so it can bu used between the computers. Also, you can have guest access set up, which I assume he was since the neighbour was able to get on and find something telling who the computer belonged to.
If you really don't want to use a firewall, you can always just give computer a meaningless name, and password protect all users on it.