The same subpoena can't get the data out of RIM actually -- device to device communications are encrypted in such a way that RIM has no access to the contents.
Indeed, I remember the codec hell days on Windows 95, 98, XP... downloading new codecs to make various videos work online. Intel's various codecs, Apple's, etc.
Use a seeded generator that creates the same random values based on a specific salt, then use the website's address and a personal password as the salt.
Strangely I know lots of Linux users who paid good money for Neverwinter Nights (the first one) on Linux. The Linux version also had less DRM than the Windows version.
I own the steelbox of Quake3 for Linux; bought it retail.
I think the major problem is user base, not interest level or willingness to pay.
Yawn, your personal issues with whitespace aside, there's no actual good argument to treat whitespace differently from any other markup.
Python code never looks half as bad as Perl code as a result primarily of its whitespace requirements.
cf. the huge styles guide for Linux kernel development; C ignores whitespace, but doing so as a programmer will get your code ignored, so while syntactically irrelevant, its still necessary.
I use my Transformer Prime for actual work all the time; granted a lot of it is via SSH sessions to real machines elsewhere, but it makes a great note-taking and connection device.
This has always been true in my experience. Quite a few Windows games running under Cedega were faster for me in Linux than on Windows with the same hardware. Native ports are an even bigger improvement; I found everything from NWN to Quake3Arena much faster on Linux than on Windows.
Very true. I spent a long time (until last summer) with a 30" CRT HDTV because the contrast and colour quality was so much better than anything under $6000 in a flat panel TV.
I upgraded to a DLP projector to keep my contrast and brightness levels... very few LCDs can match it, and for the size, nothing can.
Despite the people who don't believe you, yes this is a problem for LCD (and Plasma) with dark scenes. Modern SLCD and AMOLED screens on phones and tablets are much more advanced than what you get on a desktop mostly. Dynamic backlighting makes a huge difference as well.
This is why I play games with a DLP projector in fact -- the lighting is excellent and the visibility of detail is very high even in low contrast situations, so long as my wife doesn't crank all the livingroom lights on full (then I lose a lot of contrast).
Agreed -- I've argued this point with a few people before -- as your detail level goes up, all the surrounding information must go up at the same rate. That is to say, if you're going to have detailed trees, my face shouldn't just pass through leaves. If you can't render leaves that brush out of my way, then don't make realistic trees with leaves.
Suspension of disbelief is all about a certain even level of reality. For an excellent example, play Limbo... it has fairly low quality graphics if comparing to full colour 3D shooters of late, but they're very well animated and the physics is also very well done. The actual graphic detail indicates exactly what you expect at any time -- a ledge is where it is, and boxes are where they are, and the edge falls where you think it should... and so on.
I once got hired to do "computer, fax, phone and all other man work" by a company large enough to have unionized workers and a real HR department.
While actual sexual discrimination exists, being upset that every subtle comment is an attempt to push women into a traditional role is more a lack of self-esteem than an observation of reality. I wish every woman who felt that way in those situations would just own up and turn back to the person who said the offensive comment and ask bluntly, "do you have a problem with me in this role?" Some of them will admit that yes they do, and a lot will say 'no, I just thought it was funny.'
Get over it is relevant to women, fat people (I'm one of those), men who lose their hair prematurely (got that one too) and tall people who walk into things sometimes (yup, that too). Sorry, I'm not a woman, so (because of sexism, ironically) I don't get to claim to understand where they're coming from on these issues.
PS If its really so different for women to take jokes than for men, then the sexists are right.
I live in Canada, we Canadians do the Cuba thing quite often. I was speaking specifically of how they treat their own, and the rights you have as a Cuban citizen once taken into custody.
Note: I hear French police aren't a lot of fun either.
All three major systems have an attach rate around 8 to 9 games per system. Any variation in that is almost irrelevant.
However, the average profit of those games should be taken into account, and I'm not sure it is. I'd be willing to bet that the attach rate * profit margin for Wii games is higher than the other two platforms (due to HD graphics and audio, etc.)
Granted, I'd much rather play games on my PS3 in HD than on a Wii in blocky grainy mode (aka SD) but obviously others are quite willing to use it.
One of the reasons I personally love Android is because it immediately supports any new feature a hardware manufacturer wants to introduce. HDMI? 5.1 audio? USB host mode? Stereoscopic 3D? NFC? Wifi Direct? Yes, they've all been or are supported by Android devices. If HTC wants to make a 3D phone and Samsung does not, they can still both sell Android on their phones and the apps will work on both -- HTC doesn't have to make a new OS for 3D support, or Samsung one without.
Android is flexible. I do love how detractors call this fragmentation... flexibility is great for consumers; celebrate it.
The problem is, anyone with a PC for any length of time knows these apps have been free on the PC by hobbyists and website owners forever. Downloadable free software on Windows is not exactly new, and expecting people to pay for lower quality software on mobile than they got for free on PC is rich.
Google Plus and Drive have similar options for people who use those.
The Google Plus option is nice because it uploads all the images to an album only visible to yourself, which you can then choose to share directly on Plus later.
The problem I have with all this is the punishment -- any police officer that violates a citizen's rights should permanently lose their badge and do time.
As a citizen I've entrusted the officer to protect and serve *me* and when they violate that trust, they should be properly maligned, and not just given time off with pay.
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The same subpoena can't get the data out of RIM actually -- device to device communications are encrypted in such a way that RIM has no access to the contents.
Indeed, I remember the codec hell days on Windows 95, 98, XP ... downloading new codecs to make various videos work online. Intel's various codecs, Apple's, etc.
Standards are really really nice sometimes.
Really? The only show that's gotten geek culture right in our generation? All hail Big Bang Theory for trying at all.
Use a seeded generator that creates the same random values based on a specific salt, then use the website's address and a personal password as the salt.
I use lies that are obvious to me and nobody else for security questions.
Unfortunately when I did this with birthdates, one company got quite upset that it didn't match my real info.
Strangely I know lots of Linux users who paid good money for Neverwinter Nights (the first one) on Linux. The Linux version also had less DRM than the Windows version.
I own the steelbox of Quake3 for Linux; bought it retail.
I think the major problem is user base, not interest level or willingness to pay.
Python + wxWindows is a great rapid development platform for putting together interesting bits of code that are useful like this.
Yawn, your personal issues with whitespace aside, there's no actual good argument to treat whitespace differently from any other markup.
Python code never looks half as bad as Perl code as a result primarily of its whitespace requirements.
cf. the huge styles guide for Linux kernel development; C ignores whitespace, but doing so as a programmer will get your code ignored, so while syntactically irrelevant, its still necessary.
I use my Transformer Prime for actual work all the time; granted a lot of it is via SSH sessions to real machines elsewhere, but it makes a great note-taking and connection device.
This has always been true in my experience. Quite a few Windows games running under Cedega were faster for me in Linux than on Windows with the same hardware. Native ports are an even bigger improvement; I found everything from NWN to Quake3Arena much faster on Linux than on Windows.
Very true. I spent a long time (until last summer) with a 30" CRT HDTV because the contrast and colour quality was so much better than anything under $6000 in a flat panel TV.
I upgraded to a DLP projector to keep my contrast and brightness levels ... very few LCDs can match it, and for the size, nothing can.
(Projecting 103" screen at 10 feet away)
Despite the people who don't believe you, yes this is a problem for LCD (and Plasma) with dark scenes. Modern SLCD and AMOLED screens on phones and tablets are much more advanced than what you get on a desktop mostly. Dynamic backlighting makes a huge difference as well.
This is why I play games with a DLP projector in fact -- the lighting is excellent and the visibility of detail is very high even in low contrast situations, so long as my wife doesn't crank all the livingroom lights on full (then I lose a lot of contrast).
Agreed -- I've argued this point with a few people before -- as your detail level goes up, all the surrounding information must go up at the same rate. That is to say, if you're going to have detailed trees, my face shouldn't just pass through leaves. If you can't render leaves that brush out of my way, then don't make realistic trees with leaves.
Suspension of disbelief is all about a certain even level of reality. For an excellent example, play Limbo ... it has fairly low quality graphics if comparing to full colour 3D shooters of late, but they're very well animated and the physics is also very well done. The actual graphic detail indicates exactly what you expect at any time -- a ledge is where it is, and boxes are where they are, and the edge falls where you think it should ... and so on.
I once got hired to do "computer, fax, phone and all other man work" by a company large enough to have unionized workers and a real HR department.
While actual sexual discrimination exists, being upset that every subtle comment is an attempt to push women into a traditional role is more a lack of self-esteem than an observation of reality. I wish every woman who felt that way in those situations would just own up and turn back to the person who said the offensive comment and ask bluntly, "do you have a problem with me in this role?" Some of them will admit that yes they do, and a lot will say 'no, I just thought it was funny.'
Get over it is relevant to women, fat people (I'm one of those), men who lose their hair prematurely (got that one too) and tall people who walk into things sometimes (yup, that too). Sorry, I'm not a woman, so (because of sexism, ironically) I don't get to claim to understand where they're coming from on these issues.
PS If its really so different for women to take jokes than for men, then the sexists are right.
I live in Canada, we Canadians do the Cuba thing quite often. I was speaking specifically of how they treat their own, and the rights you have as a Cuban citizen once taken into custody.
Note: I hear French police aren't a lot of fun either.
You know that Cedega implemented most of Direct3D for Linux ages ago, right?
http://gametreelinux.com/
Okay, Intel makes drivers. What they don't make is video cards that work worth a damn.
He meant to say, "of the video cards that can play games with decent frame rates, NVidia has the best drivers on Linux."
One wonders if its possible to block this with SELinux.
All three major systems have an attach rate around 8 to 9 games per system. Any variation in that is almost irrelevant.
However, the average profit of those games should be taken into account, and I'm not sure it is. I'd be willing to bet that the attach rate * profit margin for Wii games is higher than the other two platforms (due to HD graphics and audio, etc.)
Granted, I'd much rather play games on my PS3 in HD than on a Wii in blocky grainy mode (aka SD) but obviously others are quite willing to use it.
One of the reasons I personally love Android is because it immediately supports any new feature a hardware manufacturer wants to introduce. HDMI? 5.1 audio? USB host mode? Stereoscopic 3D? NFC? Wifi Direct? Yes, they've all been or are supported by Android devices. If HTC wants to make a 3D phone and Samsung does not, they can still both sell Android on their phones and the apps will work on both -- HTC doesn't have to make a new OS for 3D support, or Samsung one without.
Android is flexible. I do love how detractors call this fragmentation ... flexibility is great for consumers; celebrate it.
The problem is, anyone with a PC for any length of time knows these apps have been free on the PC by hobbyists and website owners forever. Downloadable free software on Windows is not exactly new, and expecting people to pay for lower quality software on mobile than they got for free on PC is rich.
You really need to learn to read the author's forwards and afterwards in his books.
Crichton always spells out his view of science and technology and both how productive and cool they can be and how dangerous as well.
Move to Cuba.
That's all.
Google Plus and Drive have similar options for people who use those.
The Google Plus option is nice because it uploads all the images to an album only visible to yourself, which you can then choose to share directly on Plus later.
The problem I have with all this is the punishment -- any police officer that violates a citizen's rights should permanently lose their badge and do time.
As a citizen I've entrusted the officer to protect and serve *me* and when they violate that trust, they should be properly maligned, and not just given time off with pay.