Ah the irony of this comment: "I'm not naive enough to think that proprietary commercial operating system software doesn't have the same sort of vulnerability, but the barriers to implementing them are much higher, because the source is better protected."
Coming just before the announcement by MS that portions of the WinNT/2K source code is out in the wild and that the likelihood of new attacks on Windows will increase, I find it so ironic that the Open Source movement gets highlighted for being more likely to be compromised by security flaws. There's nothing funnier than real life I say.
Yes, I believe that sauces will be involved in these 22m new jobs, mainly ketchup and mustard.
The market for techies as cheap burger flippers cannot be underestimated, as we have the skills to operate the tills that seem to so confuse your average McDonald's worker.
Shhh, Wingdings is the new crytographic encoding method for top secret documents, replacing the good old double-ROT13 encoding used during the Cold War.
The full jingle was this IIRC:
Share and enjoy, share and enjoy,
Go through life with a plastic boy,
Or girl by your side,
Let your pal be your guide,
[fanfare]
Go stick your head in a pig.
Yeah this was the first thing I thought when I heard it would have two screens.
The quirkiness of this sounds pretty cool although I am getting visions of the Virtual Boy again...
My main concern is how powerful it is, the Playstation Portable is allegedly nearly as powerful as a PS2, so will the DS be able to compete? Historically, the B&W GB beat machines like the Atari Lynx, so it will be fun to see if Nintendo can do it again!:)
Yup, it's time to shoot this dog and put it out of its misery. This show has been recycling TNG/DS9/VOY plots so much you can often guess everything that will happen in an episode before even that hideous theme tune plays.
Yeah woo, go RIAA, you fight the pirates! That guy sold what? 5 CDs a week? Yeah you got Mr Big alright. I'm sure people will start buying the overpriced crap you put on the shelves again now.
I've had 3 VAIOs none of which have broken or are in any way flimsy.
I can understand some people want laptops with lots of drives etc, but personally I find once I've got everything I need installed on the machine I rarely need a CD drive for anything since new software gets transferred via the network. Different strokes and all that of course.
The big problem I had with Zelda were the long and tedious parts waiting for the boat to reach the next island you want to go to. Even when you could warp to areas you still often had to point the boat in the direction you wanted to go then sail for a minute to get there.:( Personally I'd have just liked to have seen the islands closer together to cut down on travel times.
Yeah I think $149 to $199 would have been a better price as you're into mass-market prices then. This might attract those who are into buying things because they look cool, but I don't think it won't help to make the iPod less of an exclusive toy of the rich.
Which is a shame, especially if MS are now gearing up to try and take the portable music market on with their closed DRM-friendly format.:(
IIRC the default password has to be set during the install of XP. If you leave it blank your default account becomes Administrator, if you choose a password you are given the chance to add other default accounts for youself and others. All of which have blank passwords and all are administrators too. Which ain't that great.:) Supposedly Service Pack 2 will fix a lot of these things, but time will tell.
As much as I encourage and want to see the adoption of Linux on the desktop I do worry that people will not like using Linux because they lose the comfort factor of Windows. This is the biggest problem facing Linux IMHO, people who are used to Windows just don't want to learn a new operating system.
I also worry about what happens if a security flaw is found in a Linux "desktop distro", how will these flaws get fixed? There's probably going to have to be some sort of "Windows Update" for Linux. I still see default Windows 98 systems with unpatched versions of Outlook Express that will allow a system to be infected as soon as an email is viewed in the preview pane, Linux has a protected memory model and is generally better written but even so, how will Linux distro companies deliver patches if MS currently can't get unskilled users to update? And any security flaws found will be trumpeted from the top of Mt. Redmond to anyone who will listen.
I think we're already in a Betamax/VHS type war with DVD-R and DVD+R, adding another playback format with HD-DVD is just asking for trouble, especially now that DVD has pretty much supplanted VHS.
Personally I think it's foolish of these companies to try to create their own proprietory formats to make more money as it's usually always the case that the cheapest most open format wins. e.g. VHS, x86 etc. And you have consumers upset that their purchase has become obsolete who won't necessarily have the cash to buy the "victorious" format.
And what about people who have 50+ DVDs in their collection? Are they supposed to replace all their Lord of the Rings DVDs with HD-DVDs? I remember people bitching about replacing all their VHS with DVDs, I don't think having to do it again so soon will help the introduction of a new format.:)
During my years at school and university a hard game was always welcome, it meant that the game I'd just spent my hard earned grant money on was going to last more than a few minutes, and that I would get my money's worth.
However, since finding gainful employment my gameing time has been dramatically reduced. To this end, easier games that I can play without spending hours trying to beat the same area have become much more welcome in my various consoles and PC.
It's a shame, I do miss the days where I could spend hours playing Super Ghouls n' Ghosts or Sim City. The best solution to this I have seen is in games like GTA, which are broken up into small chunks which you can save after if necessary. Games that let you quicksave are quite helpful like this too, but the temptation to save every few seconds often makes a difficult game defeatable in an afternoon.
Still I remember the days before memory cards etc, when you had to start from level 1 every time!
So now that Microsoft have evidence that plenty of machines are crashing frequently out in the wild they're ready to start charging for fixes? I wish I could think of money spinners like that!
What happens when they start outsourcing robot jobs to cheaper overseas robots though? Call centre robots in India are much cheaper and don't have a big union lobby.
We'll have sober, unemployed Benders walking the streets begging for change... or just picking our pockets.
We NEED to start planning for this by starting construction of suicide booths and soylent green factories now, before it's too late.
I wonder how many discs they would have to use for something like Shenmue to be made for the GC? Three? Maybe four? I agree it's the ideal platform for that kind of game though.
I think at the time Shenmue II was ported to the XBox the Sega/Microsoft relationship was pretty strong. It seemed like the XBox would be the spiritual successor to the Dreamcast back then! Since most of the Sega stuff on the XBox has only had a lukewarm reception I think Sega are more interested in the Cube now.
My only worry about Shenmue is that there are supposed to two or three more sequels after Shenmue III! I wonder if Yu Suzuki would try and fit it all into III rather than hope that another sequel would be green lighted?
The other thing to point out about this price is, what can this device do that a PDA for half the price can't?
What are the killer apps that will make me throw away my current PDA for it? So far I can't see anything that a decent iPaq or Palm couldn't handle just as well.
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So this means my self diagnosis of having housemaid's knee is incorrect then?
Never fear, if a game misses its release date you can always rely on a hacker to steal the source and release a build.
Ah the irony of this comment: "I'm not naive enough to think that proprietary commercial operating system software doesn't have the same sort of vulnerability, but the barriers to implementing them are much higher, because the source is better protected."
Coming just before the announcement by MS that portions of the WinNT/2K source code is out in the wild and that the likelihood of new attacks on Windows will increase, I find it so ironic that the Open Source movement gets highlighted for being more likely to be compromised by security flaws. There's nothing funnier than real life I say.
Yes, I believe that sauces will be involved in these 22m new jobs, mainly ketchup and mustard.
The market for techies as cheap burger flippers cannot be underestimated, as we have the skills to operate the tills that seem to so confuse your average McDonald's worker.
Geeks also appreciate it when you dress up as Princess Leia in her slave outfit from Return of the Jedi.
Shhh, Wingdings is the new crytographic encoding method for top secret documents, replacing the good old double-ROT13 encoding used during the Cold War.
The full jingle was this IIRC: Share and enjoy, share and enjoy, Go through life with a plastic boy, Or girl by your side, Let your pal be your guide, [fanfare] Go stick your head in a pig.
Yeah this was the first thing I thought when I heard it would have two screens.
:)
The quirkiness of this sounds pretty cool although I am getting visions of the Virtual Boy again...
My main concern is how powerful it is, the Playstation Portable is allegedly nearly as powerful as a PS2, so will the DS be able to compete? Historically, the B&W GB beat machines like the Atari Lynx, so it will be fun to see if Nintendo can do it again!
Yup, it's time to shoot this dog and put it out of its misery. This show has been recycling TNG/DS9/VOY plots so much you can often guess everything that will happen in an episode before even that hideous theme tune plays.
It looks like we're both right:
:)
http://wookiee.8k.com/bts.html
The bear that provided the growls and roars for Chewie died a few years back, maybe that was it.
Yeah woo, go RIAA, you fight the pirates! That guy sold what? 5 CDs a week? Yeah you got Mr Big alright. I'm sure people will start buying the overpriced crap you put on the shelves again now.
I've had 3 VAIOs none of which have broken or are in any way flimsy.
I can understand some people want laptops with lots of drives etc, but personally I find once I've got everything I need installed on the machine I rarely need a CD drive for anything since new software gets transferred via the network. Different strokes and all that of course.
The big problem I had with Zelda were the long and tedious parts waiting for the boat to reach the next island you want to go to. Even when you could warp to areas you still often had to point the boat in the direction you wanted to go then sail for a minute to get there. :( Personally I'd have just liked to have seen the islands closer together to cut down on travel times.
Yeah I think $149 to $199 would have been a better price as you're into mass-market prices then. This might attract those who are into buying things because they look cool, but I don't think it won't help to make the iPod less of an exclusive toy of the rich.
:(
Which is a shame, especially if MS are now gearing up to try and take the portable music market on with their closed DRM-friendly format.
So if I drink lots of Coke the caffeine will cancel out the diabetes risk from the sugar?
IIRC the default password has to be set during the install of XP. If you leave it blank your default account becomes Administrator, if you choose a password you are given the chance to add other default accounts for youself and others. All of which have blank passwords and all are administrators too. Which ain't that great. :) Supposedly Service Pack 2 will fix a lot of these things, but time will tell.
As much as I encourage and want to see the adoption of Linux on the desktop I do worry that people will not like using Linux because they lose the comfort factor of Windows. This is the biggest problem facing Linux IMHO, people who are used to Windows just don't want to learn a new operating system.
I also worry about what happens if a security flaw is found in a Linux "desktop distro", how will these flaws get fixed? There's probably going to have to be some sort of "Windows Update" for Linux. I still see default Windows 98 systems with unpatched versions of Outlook Express that will allow a system to be infected as soon as an email is viewed in the preview pane, Linux has a protected memory model and is generally better written but even so, how will Linux distro companies deliver patches if MS currently can't get unskilled users to update? And any security flaws found will be trumpeted from the top of Mt. Redmond to anyone who will listen.
Maybe you're right, I'm just thinking about what happens when HD-DVD-R and HD-DVD+R (or somthing) starts being announced! :)
I think we're already in a Betamax/VHS type war with DVD-R and DVD+R, adding another playback format with HD-DVD is just asking for trouble, especially now that DVD has pretty much supplanted VHS.
:)
Personally I think it's foolish of these companies to try to create their own proprietory formats to make more money as it's usually always the case that the cheapest most open format wins. e.g. VHS, x86 etc. And you have consumers upset that their purchase has become obsolete who won't necessarily have the cash to buy the "victorious" format.
And what about people who have 50+ DVDs in their collection? Are they supposed to replace all their Lord of the Rings DVDs with HD-DVDs? I remember people bitching about replacing all their VHS with DVDs, I don't think having to do it again so soon will help the introduction of a new format.
During my years at school and university a hard game was always welcome, it meant that the game I'd just spent my hard earned grant money on was going to last more than a few minutes, and that I would get my money's worth.
However, since finding gainful employment my gameing time has been dramatically reduced. To this end, easier games that I can play without spending hours trying to beat the same area have become much more welcome in my various consoles and PC.
It's a shame, I do miss the days where I could spend hours playing Super Ghouls n' Ghosts or Sim City. The best solution to this I have seen is in games like GTA, which are broken up into small chunks which you can save after if necessary. Games that let you quicksave are quite helpful like this too, but the temptation to save every few seconds often makes a difficult game defeatable in an afternoon.
Still I remember the days before memory cards etc, when you had to start from level 1 every time!
So now that Microsoft have evidence that plenty of machines are crashing frequently out in the wild they're ready to start charging for fixes? I wish I could think of money spinners like that!
What happens when they start outsourcing robot jobs to cheaper overseas robots though? Call centre robots in India are much cheaper and don't have a big union lobby.
We'll have sober, unemployed Benders walking the streets begging for change... or just picking our pockets.
We NEED to start planning for this by starting construction of suicide booths and soylent green factories now, before it's too late.
Oh good! Share MP3s and get sued, share kiddy porn and get away with it again and again!
Couldn't all these resources be put to better use?
I wonder how many discs they would have to use for something like Shenmue to be made for the GC? Three? Maybe four? I agree it's the ideal platform for that kind of game though.
I think at the time Shenmue II was ported to the XBox the Sega/Microsoft relationship was pretty strong. It seemed like the XBox would be the spiritual successor to the Dreamcast back then! Since most of the Sega stuff on the XBox has only had a lukewarm reception I think Sega are more interested in the Cube now.
My only worry about Shenmue is that there are supposed to two or three more sequels after Shenmue III! I wonder if Yu Suzuki would try and fit it all into III rather than hope that another sequel would be green lighted?
The other thing to point out about this price is, what can this device do that a PDA for half the price can't?
What are the killer apps that will make me throw away my current PDA for it? So far I can't see anything that a decent iPaq or Palm couldn't handle just as well.