EA probably realized that a significant percentage of customer service calls and returns were for problems with securROM. By dropping it all together they are saving money on development costs, and call center calls
Unmanned missions can cover the issues that come up with manned spaceflight very well. Things like this need to be sorted out now. Like themovie 2010 astranauts need to be able to tell their governments to fsck off or we are going to die.
Women are more attracted to married guys with little kids, than to single guys.
Call it whatever you want. but if you want to pick up chicks take your friends 3-5 year old to a park some day. Of course it is also why some guys find it really easy to cheat on their wives, as women just flock to them. Stealing someone else's forbidden fruit is nearly irresistible.
then i guess i am unlucky. every windows XP, and vista install I have seen has been horrendously buggy, with processes like explorer.exe and iexplore.exe crashing at least once a day. Windows in all of it's glory won't even let me install IE 8 to correct the problems I am having with IE 7 as the IE 8 installer needs IE to actually work. now what kind of messed up situation is that. If Firefox or Safari where to get corrupted I can always uninstall the browser, or at the very least upgrade over. Nope not with IE.
Maybe I just expect it to work the same way every day like my Mac's at home. That is too much for Windows though. Now since it is work I hav eto send the machine to coropate headquarters so they can do the reinstall, leaving us without one for a week.
If you can't access data, then it is as good as lost.
think of it like this. We still wouldn't be able to read Egyptian hieroglyphs if it wasn't for the rosetta stone. The data was there we just couldn't understand it. Just because the data is there doesn't mean you can use it.
Actually the older games are probably better finding just two tiny bits and putting your target on them has to be harder than the more modern engines with better scalings.
Yea I agree with the other poster. My 65 year old uncle doesn't understand such things.
Some people literally never grow up. that or they regress do to drugs and alcohol abuse. Actually it might just be the later. drugs, and alcohol retard a person to the point they retreat into their 3 year old mindset.
shh don't tell that to/.'ers. they don't know how businesses work or their expenses so they think that apple is evil.
What people really don't understand is that credit card companies double and sometimes triple dip.3% of that $2.99 went to the credit card company. or $.09 since it was a refund they still charge for the transaction. So now it is $.18 Currently Apple has $.89 that is disappearing. Now if there was an error in apples transmission to the credit card company that gets charged too(1 in 20 or so)., and that is just credit card charging fees.
Apple isn't keeping their share either that too gets refunded. however since slash-dotters aren't lawyers they can't read the legalese that states that.
Micropayments are doomed to failure as they will never be cost effective as the transaction charges are more expensive than the payments. Of course since users never se those charges they don't understand them.
your thinking normally next time try thinking of something else.
I want two displays one horizontal and one vertical. Both touch enabled, but that way when i want o read large text I can do so vertically, however when all i am doing is sorting though files on my "desktop" it is more natural to use my arms.
Two screens solves 1,2,4,5 3 is only solvable by personal cloaking device or learning to write with paper and pencil properly. The former will be easier to do with you than the later.
The mouse wasn't used on most computers up until the early 90's. it is an add on.
Touch screens are an addition to rather than a replacement of. Indeed many places a touchscreen and keyboard will work better than a mouse and keyboard. as you can have a smaller footprint for the "interface"
Also MSFT's problem is that it is using the same gesture for two different functions. draw a lower case l and an i on the screen and have each do different things. of course the system gets confused. of course it is also standard MSFT to do stupid things like that.
you don't have to destroy the nodes. Destroy the power plants, and the cloud evaporates.
The North east blackout of 2003 showed us. In a blink all of our data retention methods fail. Portable generators won't last long enough.
what is needed is two things. a way to store electricity that isn't chemical(battery), and multiple methods of power generation. So we aren't dependent on any one source. Local power storage and generation(Heck even 5kw on the roof of your home will pay for your air conditioning) will take the burden off the power grid. and then the cloud can still be up there.
Also storage on the cloud? are companies really that stupid? Clouds can be seen by everyone there won't be any truly secure cloud storage.
BIOS is evil because it is as backasswards as MSFT windows. EFI and open firmware have better plug and play setups, plus the ability to do things like Apple's target disk mode. Turning your Hard drive into an external drive for copying files from your old system quickly and easy.
Bios is to hardware as dos was to WinME. There are better ways to do the same task. but compatibility with MSFT is limiting growth of those better choices.
yet people survived that way for thousand of years. or did the egyptians romans, vikings , etc all have plastic food storage containers?
Hint refrigeration is only a century old. there are other ways to preserve food. on small scales. the kind that 40,000 people divided up into groups of a few thousand each.
Better question is what typeof BIOS? Is EFI vulnerable? How about open firmware? Or is this limited to just plain ole BIOS that should have been killed a decade ago but remains as msft doesn't support anything else for most versions of it's OS?
>>I also didn't find the universal acceptance of the "hey, let's discard every scrap of technology and be cavemen!" idea to be realistic or practical in the least.
practical yes, realistic, yes.
You must remember they can't produce a whole lot more new tech anyways. they couldn't build anything much more complicated than than pumps, etc. With all the equipment they left behind on all the places they visited equipment wise They just didn't have enough. The people while they had tech weren't designing new clothes, they weren't living much differently than cave people anyways. A chance to start over without struggles is something that they needed.
For the geeks living in their basements. imagine that you couldn't order any new games, or computer parts. after a while even your boredom would cause you to go outside and try something new.
Bribe just about any good electrician if you want one of those seals. I can put my hands on four of them for upstate NY in less than an hour. (only minor B&E involved as I know where they are stored for one electrician.
Also if you are good most of those seals can be opened and closed with regular tools. It takes a bit of patience, but is possible.hence why when they really lock you out they use padlocks now. Of course I bet with the right bribe one could get a copy of even those keys as they are most likely keyed the same.
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EA probably realized that a significant percentage of customer service calls and returns were for problems with securROM. By dropping it all together they are saving money on development costs, and call center calls
Unmanned missions can cover the issues that come up with manned spaceflight very well. Things like this need to be sorted out now. Like themovie 2010 astranauts need to be able to tell their governments to fsck off or we are going to die.
Women are more attracted to married guys with little kids, than to single guys.
Call it whatever you want. but if you want to pick up chicks take your friends 3-5 year old to a park some day. Of course it is also why some guys find it really easy to cheat on their wives, as women just flock to them. Stealing someone else's forbidden fruit is nearly irresistible.
then i guess i am unlucky. every windows XP, and vista install I have seen has been horrendously buggy, with processes like explorer.exe and iexplore.exe crashing at least once a day. Windows in all of it's glory won't even let me install IE 8 to correct the problems I am having with IE 7 as the IE 8 installer needs IE to actually work. now what kind of messed up situation is that. If Firefox or Safari where to get corrupted I can always uninstall the browser, or at the very least upgrade over. Nope not with IE.
Maybe I just expect it to work the same way every day like my Mac's at home. That is too much for Windows though. Now since it is work I hav eto send the machine to coropate headquarters so they can do the reinstall, leaving us without one for a week.
If you can't access data, then it is as good as lost.
think of it like this. We still wouldn't be able to read Egyptian hieroglyphs if it wasn't for the rosetta stone. The data was there we just couldn't understand it. Just because the data is there doesn't mean you can use it.
Actually the older games are probably better finding just two tiny bits and putting your target on them has to be harder than the more modern engines with better scalings.
where have you been for the past 10 years?
they already do try this.
Yea I agree with the other poster. My 65 year old uncle doesn't understand such things.
Some people literally never grow up. that or they regress do to drugs and alcohol abuse. Actually it might just be the later. drugs, and alcohol retard a person to the point they retreat into their 3 year old mindset.
30-40mph with gusts later in the day higher.
though on land it is easier. on water the record is about 64mph in 24mph wind.
okay so i am a sailing geek. I also say this yesterday.
shh don't tell that to /.'ers. they don't know how businesses work or their expenses so they think that apple is evil.
What people really don't understand is that credit card companies double and sometimes triple dip.3% of that $2.99 went to the credit card company. or $.09 since it was a refund they still charge for the transaction. So now it is $.18 Currently Apple has $.89 that is disappearing. Now if there was an error in apples transmission to the credit card company that gets charged too(1 in 20 or so)., and that is just credit card charging fees.
Apple isn't keeping their share either that too gets refunded. however since slash-dotters aren't lawyers they can't read the legalese that states that.
Micropayments are doomed to failure as they will never be cost effective as the transaction charges are more expensive than the payments. Of course since users never se those charges they don't understand them.
your thinking normally next time try thinking of something else.
I want two displays one horizontal and one vertical. Both touch enabled, but that way when i want o read large text I can do so vertically, however when all i am doing is sorting though files on my "desktop" it is more natural to use my arms.
Two screens solves 1,2,4,5 3 is only solvable by personal cloaking device or learning to write with paper and pencil properly. The former will be easier to do with you than the later.
you want me to tell you a secret?
The mouse wasn't used on most computers up until the early 90's. it is an add on.
Touch screens are an addition to rather than a replacement of. Indeed many places a touchscreen and keyboard will work better than a mouse and keyboard. as you can have a smaller footprint for the "interface"
Also MSFT's problem is that it is using the same gesture for two different functions. draw a lower case l and an i on the screen and have each do different things. of course the system gets confused. of course it is also standard MSFT to do stupid things like that.
Honestly when i had two ink jet printers have the ink go bad and solidify in between the infrequent uses of printers at home i stopped keeping on.
If it is important I print t at work, or if it is too large, I send it to a friend who can print it on a large commercial laser jet.
you don't have to destroy the nodes. Destroy the power plants, and the cloud evaporates.
The North east blackout of 2003 showed us. In a blink all of our data retention methods fail. Portable generators won't last long enough.
what is needed is two things. a way to store electricity that isn't chemical(battery), and multiple methods of power generation. So we aren't dependent on any one source. Local power storage and generation(Heck even 5kw on the roof of your home will pay for your air conditioning) will take the burden off the power grid. and then the cloud can still be up there.
Also storage on the cloud? are companies really that stupid? Clouds can be seen by everyone there won't be any truly secure cloud storage.
don't worry people will still believe the fictional over the actual, as they can't handle the truth.
well if you plug in a laser printer you can print off a hard copy for your boss.
BIOS is evil because it is as backasswards as MSFT windows. EFI and open firmware have better plug and play setups, plus the ability to do things like Apple's target disk mode. Turning your Hard drive into an external drive for copying files from your old system quickly and easy.
Bios is to hardware as dos was to WinME. There are better ways to do the same task. but compatibility with MSFT is limiting growth of those better choices.
yet people survived that way for thousand of years. or did the egyptians romans, vikings , etc all have plastic food storage containers?
Hint refrigeration is only a century old. there are other ways to preserve food. on small scales. the kind that 40,000 people divided up into groups of a few thousand each.
It does explain how bush won twice.
at this rate someone had better double check the James Web before it takes off for orbit.
Better question is what typeof BIOS? Is EFI vulnerable? How about open firmware? Or is this limited to just plain ole BIOS that should have been killed a decade ago but remains as msft doesn't support anything else for most versions of it's OS?
>>I also didn't find the universal acceptance of the "hey, let's discard every scrap of technology and be cavemen!" idea to be realistic or practical in the least.
practical yes, realistic, yes.
You must remember they can't produce a whole lot more new tech anyways. they couldn't build anything much more complicated than than pumps, etc. With all the equipment they left behind on all the places they visited equipment wise They just didn't have enough. The people while they had tech weren't designing new clothes, they weren't living much differently than cave people anyways. A chance to start over without struggles is something that they needed.
For the geeks living in their basements. imagine that you couldn't order any new games, or computer parts. after a while even your boredom would cause you to go outside and try something new.
Bribe just about any good electrician if you want one of those seals. I can put my hands on four of them for upstate NY in less than an hour. (only minor B&E involved as I know where they are stored for one electrician.
Also if you are good most of those seals can be opened and closed with regular tools. It takes a bit of patience, but is possible.hence why when they really lock you out they use padlocks now. Of course I bet with the right bribe one could get a copy of even those keys as they are most likely keyed the same.
really they have a blacklist that has been blacklisted itself.
if you have a list and are actively adding sites to that list. then your simply waiting for the hardware updates to enforce said list.
then what of Britain or Australia or france, which already use censorship on it's people.
Soon there won't be places to route the damage around.