This announcement is why there aren't more killer apps on the PSP. Where the piracy potential is high, game developers don't want to take the risk to make high budget games.
For the record though, God of War was really good, as was Daxter. Personally I thought Patapon was the ultimate in hand-held fun but Puzzle Quest is pretty great too, especially since its easily suspendable when you need to put it down. Suspending Patapon on the other hand is almost always a bad idea (due to the timed input).
I rent games from a local shop that offers 3 night rentals for $5. I play them for a weekend and find that 90% of the time I've beaten the game in one weekend.
The few games I haven't beaten in a weekend and wanted to play more, I've picked up used (from your brother perhaps) or after they're discounted.
I'd hope that's all they're doing as well. But if you wanted to actually filter content, your best bet would be to randomly review x photos and posts per day, much like the Slashdot moderation system.
Just queue up a few dozen randoms for each employee to have a look at. Random selection is much better at finding deviations than planned surveys any day.
I have over 600 'friends' on my contact list (and I really wish they'd change that term to 'contacts') and I know almost every single one of them personally, from school mostly. A few of them are people I've met through groups on Facebook.
BTW, even Linus Torvalds will not disclose every vulnerability. He has publicly stated that if he sees a vuln he will just fix it, and that he sees no need to jump through hoops to tell anyone about it. (a MO which may lead to the undesirable situation of bad guys being tipped of by diff'ing the source tree and figuring out the vuln before the fixes makes it through the various distributions).
This point is one of the reasons I disagree with Linus' take on responsible disclosure. I feel he (and other lead developers) should definitely and immediately notify kernel package maintainers at the various distributions as soon as a patch has been worked out at the very least, with reasons why it should be included.
Population density anywhere in Canada doesn't begin to compare to Korea's. Economies of scale are partly at work there. I do agree that our (I'm Canadian) Internet is slightly over priced, but if you tell Americans that I'm paying $45/mo for 10/1Mbit service they often get jealous because high speed Internet is substantially cheaper in most parts of Canada than in the USA.
Since you and several others missed it, read the final sentence in the summary: "I can only assume FEMA's plan for a human remains concentration game will be put on hold."
The poster is trying to make an invalid point employing reductio ad absurdum. Assuming there is no such memory game, the poster is using an absurd example that is even worse than the one that does exist to try and emphasize how bad the existing image is.
This is a logical fallacy. The image itself should be judged on its own merits instead, and going down "slippery slopes" in your own head, no matter how logical they seem is improper logic.
As with fanboys and flamers online (Penny Arcade link I posted), the poster of this article assumed everyone already agrees with his or her point of view and would appreciate their colourful remarks instead of actually making a logical point against the images.
PS "They're obviously horrible" is not a logical statement either when said explicitly or implied.
For the rest of you who understood the point, congrats. Disagreeing with me is fine, but not being able to see others' prejudices in a statement is just ignorance.
Random strangers can't go snooping through your stuff. The whole point of Facebook is to make what used to be an open field day on private information (geocities then myspace, etc.) a more private and protected one.
Facebook themselves brag about the privacy and personal protection measures. Nobody can tell if you rejected them (without effort) or what groups you've left, or if you posted photos privately for a specific friend or family member...
When users try to get around it, its a ToS violation, but then they themselves violate these rules.
Now that the government already subsidized the creation of major ISPs, it would be nearly impossible to create such an even footing for future competition.
Like any real geek, I downloaded Ubuntu in an overnight automated session with time of day bandwidth controls so my wife wouldn't complain about the Internet being slow while she's up using the computer.
Well, the wife part might not be the same for other geeks.
I'm more interested in a truly distributed file system for making better use of my home LAN full of PCs with those over-sized hard drives that could be being used efficiently.
Several file systems have tried to take advantage of distributed storage, RAID-style, but none are very well maintained or stable or feature-rich for day to day use to my knowledge.
Besides, its a distributed backup system.
Interestingly, it would be easier to store all my data in Freenet and have all my PCs form a darknet with each other.
For a similarly interesting situation, read the old FDA reports on whether to ban either cocaine or caffeine in drinks like Coca Cola. It was determined that both should be banned until it was shown that caffeine was a flavouring agent, and was therefore allowed in small doses.
Its not a matter of perspective, its a matter of linguistics.
The 'free CD' that come with your magazine subscription isn't free either. Its just a portion of what you paid for your magazine subscription, and its included on that basis whether you want to use it or not.
Try reading this survey instead. It includes a distribution of servers running the busiest websites in the world, arguably a more valuable metric as it doesn't include placeholder and bulk hosting sites.
The GP was actually a good post, as many people have not used *nix long enough to know these 'obvious' differences.
I can rhyme off a dozen differences between Unixware, Solaris, Irix, Linux and OpenBSD but I doubt many people I know who use Linux on a regular basis would know any of them and assume the BSDs are more similar than they are.
You're reminding me of all the reviewers who complained about how 'sluggish' Killzone 2 feels.
Its not supposed to be Quake, you're not supposed to be able to run 40 miles an hour with a full kit on, and turning around while carrying a rocket launcher isn't as easy as you think it is:-)
Personally, I enjoy having to think before just running into a room firing blindly.
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This announcement is why there aren't more killer apps on the PSP. Where the piracy potential is high, game developers don't want to take the risk to make high budget games.
For the record though, God of War was really good, as was Daxter. Personally I thought Patapon was the ultimate in hand-held fun but Puzzle Quest is pretty great too, especially since its easily suspendable when you need to put it down. Suspending Patapon on the other hand is almost always a bad idea (due to the timed input).
I rent games from a local shop that offers 3 night rentals for $5. I play them for a weekend and find that 90% of the time I've beaten the game in one weekend.
The few games I haven't beaten in a weekend and wanted to play more, I've picked up used (from your brother perhaps) or after they're discounted.
I'm not sure which part you're referring to, but as with many others, I didn't care, I use djbdns, not bind.
I'd hope that's all they're doing as well. But if you wanted to actually filter content, your best bet would be to randomly review x photos and posts per day, much like the Slashdot moderation system.
Just queue up a few dozen randoms for each employee to have a look at. Random selection is much better at finding deviations than planned surveys any day.
Just a question, but what's wrong with hacks? :) I love a good hack.
More importantly, what on earth is hackish about trigger files?
Also, I don't use cron for such jobs, I use daemontools.
I have over 600 'friends' on my contact list (and I really wish they'd change that term to 'contacts') and I know almost every single one of them personally, from school mostly. A few of them are people I've met through groups on Facebook.
This point is one of the reasons I disagree with Linus' take on responsible disclosure. I feel he (and other lead developers) should definitely and immediately notify kernel package maintainers at the various distributions as soon as a patch has been worked out at the very least, with reasons why it should be included.
Ctrl-Esc loads the start menu, similarly to the Windows key.
Ctrl-Esc, U, U in that case.
iSCSI isn't a distributed filesystem. And yes, several have been invented before, none of them very stable yet.
Centralized repository of data != Distributed & redundant storage system.
Population density anywhere in Canada doesn't begin to compare to Korea's. Economies of scale are partly at work there. I do agree that our (I'm Canadian) Internet is slightly over priced, but if you tell Americans that I'm paying $45/mo for 10/1Mbit service they often get jealous because high speed Internet is substantially cheaper in most parts of Canada than in the USA.
Feel free to have a look at some of the research yourself. There are many other examples.
Since you and several others missed it, read the final sentence in the summary: "I can only assume FEMA's plan for a human remains concentration game will be put on hold."
The poster is trying to make an invalid point employing reductio ad absurdum. Assuming there is no such memory game, the poster is using an absurd example that is even worse than the one that does exist to try and emphasize how bad the existing image is.
This is a logical fallacy. The image itself should be judged on its own merits instead, and going down "slippery slopes" in your own head, no matter how logical they seem is improper logic.
As with fanboys and flamers online (Penny Arcade link I posted), the poster of this article assumed everyone already agrees with his or her point of view and would appreciate their colourful remarks instead of actually making a logical point against the images.
PS "They're obviously horrible" is not a logical statement either when said explicitly or implied.
For the rest of you who understood the point, congrats. Disagreeing with me is fine, but not being able to see others' prejudices in a statement is just ignorance.
Random strangers can't go snooping through your stuff. The whole point of Facebook is to make what used to be an open field day on private information (geocities then myspace, etc.) a more private and protected one.
Facebook themselves brag about the privacy and personal protection measures. Nobody can tell if you rejected them (without effort) or what groups you've left, or if you posted photos privately for a specific friend or family member ...
When users try to get around it, its a ToS violation, but then they themselves violate these rules.
Because with these paid workers, things make so much more sense.
Now that the government already subsidized the creation of major ISPs, it would be nearly impossible to create such an even footing for future competition.
Like any real geek, I downloaded Ubuntu in an overnight automated session with time of day bandwidth controls so my wife wouldn't complain about the Internet being slow while she's up using the computer.
Well, the wife part might not be the same for other geeks.
I'm more interested in a truly distributed file system for making better use of my home LAN full of PCs with those over-sized hard drives that could be being used efficiently.
Several file systems have tried to take advantage of distributed storage, RAID-style, but none are very well maintained or stable or feature-rich for day to day use to my knowledge.
Besides, its a distributed backup system.
Interestingly, it would be easier to store all my data in Freenet and have all my PCs form a darknet with each other.
Obviously the submitter is heavily biased and can't be bothered to think past his or (very unlikely her) own prejudices.
That final sentence is just "hey look at me, I'm a bigot but listen to me anyway."
For some reason, this comes to mind.
For a similarly interesting situation, read the old FDA reports on whether to ban either cocaine or caffeine in drinks like Coca Cola. It was determined that both should be banned until it was shown that caffeine was a flavouring agent, and was therefore allowed in small doses.
Its not a matter of perspective, its a matter of linguistics.
The 'free CD' that come with your magazine subscription isn't free either. Its just a portion of what you paid for your magazine subscription, and its included on that basis whether you want to use it or not.
Windows Key, U, U ... on most systems, without a software package beginning with 'U' in the start menu.
Try reading this survey instead. It includes a distribution of servers running the busiest websites in the world, arguably a more valuable metric as it doesn't include placeholder and bulk hosting sites.
In that context, Apache is 27% ahead of IIS.
The GP was actually a good post, as many people have not used *nix long enough to know these 'obvious' differences.
I can rhyme off a dozen differences between Unixware, Solaris, Irix, Linux and OpenBSD but I doubt many people I know who use Linux on a regular basis would know any of them and assume the BSDs are more similar than they are.
You're reminding me of all the reviewers who complained about how 'sluggish' Killzone 2 feels.
Its not supposed to be Quake, you're not supposed to be able to run 40 miles an hour with a full kit on, and turning around while carrying a rocket launcher isn't as easy as you think it is :-)
Personally, I enjoy having to think before just running into a room firing blindly.
Time for some of us geeks to make some good inter-country VPNs for these authentication sites that verify your IP address.
A Squid-like proxy network that allows you to identify yourself as any participating country.
Sigh.