You can get extra batteries that attach to the dock connector for ipods. I would imagine that would make for one alternative. In fact, owing to the immense popularity of the ipod itself, that compatibility on your phone could come in handy. For example, I've gone on snowboarding trips with my ipod and forgot my charger but every night at the hostels, it only took a few minutes to find someone with a charger. You have to love being a part of the in-crowd:)
If I forgot my cell phone charger, I'd be completely fucked. Cell phone companies tweak their connectors every model, often in a systematic way! Move the notch in the connector to a different place for each new model. It's pretty bad. And then, a couple years later when they feel you're due for a new phone, the chargers are no longer sold even. What started off as a progression for miniaturizing connectors has turned into a corporate strategy. I'd like to choke anyone supportive of the strategy.
If you fully lock out your machine with say a strong password-based encryption, something the forensics experts can't touch, are you required by law to give up the password? Say they bust into your home after figuring out you run some massive child porn ring, but everything is locked down. It'd be pretty obvious that you'd know the login passwords to your own machines. But what are the consequences for not giving up access? Or the key to a removable drive? etc etc... that sort of thing.
Not trying to be an ass but these sorts of things happen all the time by coincidence too. You shouldn't assume it was the update. I'm not saying it wasn't. I don't know. I'm sure apple puts them through a lot of testing. I'd imagine a good percentage of failures on reboot are actually unrelated.
It doesn't hurt that Live enforces certain age restrictions. Hell, minors can't even use Messenger. And offline, parental controls on the 360 can be configured to block games like Halo 3. Who even cares if retailers sell to kids? Console-level enforcement is easily the simplest solution for parents. Jack is totally off base here and needs to put his money where his mouth is. Maybe he thinks Bungie's lolcats target children, haha...
No kidding. Plus, engadget and friends are going to have to be extra careful for a while. It seems like this would be an easy way to make some money shorting a stock. You'd have to pull it off but it's pretty hard not to predict some copy-cat attempts in the coming months.
To me, the Bungie response seems more like wit. They're mocking him for calling out their game, pointing out a lack of maturity rather than being immature about it. They're just playing it out to make us see how ridiculous it is. I think, based on the amount of casual posts I've read from Bungie foaks, that mockery is just part of their culture/humour.
Miyamoto just chose Halo because it happens to be MS's flagship title, without being something entirely new. Bungie is just saying that there's nothing wrong with making a great FPS and sticking with it. It's not like Mario and Zelda haven't gone through a few iterations themselves. Bungie will move on sooner or later, this isn't their first successful IP after all.
The default security blocks them. To run unsigned stuff, you have to set it to accept those scripts. Just a one line command you'll see at the top of almost any blog/tutorial posting on powershell, nothing painful.
MS PowerShell is a separate download for XP, Vista, and Win2K3. It's not included out of the box in any of them. The point of this shell is that it's object oriented. The classic windows shell and most of the others out there (eg bash) aren't. I'd suggest you pay even a tiny bit of attention to what you're reading but you clearly don't seem to care.
Pipe the string you want directly to the clipboard? In theory you'll have an object and should be able to send just a URL or whatnot to the clipboard. I understand your frustration but console output is fixed-width and has line breaks. It's just the way things are done.
The official name is "Microsoft PowerShell" and is not to be referred to as "PowerShell" alone. You shouldn't see anyone from MS calling it otherwise. You're welcome to shorthand the name and cause confusion though:)
PowerShell passes objects. Legitimate instantiated objects. To the best of my knowledge, it does not serialize to XML, pass, then deserialize. Any idea where you read that?
Not the first but the domination mode of UT should be called out here. This is the third major iteration of theirs on this concept. UT Dom, imho, can be considered a failure. I think they should have just added points to DM maps and left it as a minor gametype. But with gears, they're guaranteed players so it's interesting that they chose to try this again. Prior to each release of Dom, we've heard from Epic how awesome it is. I think they're hoping that once people give it more of a chance they'll enjoy it. I personally think most people will stick with the raw versus mode. Perhaps gametype specific maps will persuade people to give it a chance.
They should probably give the new games away for free too. Just to really show they're commited, you know? I'm so sick and tired of them claiming there's some kind of value in this directx stuff.
Now, had you used OpenGL on vista as your example I may have agreed with you...
Now why doesn't it surprise me to see, out of all the people in the industry, Valve's PR guy is making the most noise? Okay, maybe not quite true. What should be noted here that there is HUGE value in the platform. Valve makes a cut when other developers release through Steam. They've invested heavily to become that platform. I'm not sure what all they offer but I assume it extends to distribution, copy protection, matchmaking, buddy lists, etc. Now, with G4W stepping in with the Live platform, they have a very giant competitor. This isn't about enforcing some very sane basic requirements for a half-decent user experience, it's about marketshare wars between live marketplace and steam to be the entry point to buying your games.
The typo checking is likely smarter than just a random 1/x chance of hitting it. Take an ISBN number for example. It's not possible to change one digit or reverse the order of two digits next to each other and get a valid ISBN number. There's a lot of cool stuff like this in code theory that makes designing these kinds of keys as easy as opening a textbook..
I haven't seen any numbers on windows but 25% sounds plausible. Perhaps that's going down now. But regardless, there are a hell of a lot of small computer stores selling machines without windows and get windows installed by the kid down the street. If you don't just consider the US, you might rethink things too.
For Office, I've heard ballpark figures of around 50% that were substantiated pretty well, rather than just pulled out of thin air.
I can't speak for this particular framework but Microsoft pretty well dogfoods anything they can. I'd be surprised if they didn't have at least a small handful of internal teams trying it out.
I think we're talking about hype along the lines of Engadget. Tech writers were pretty interested in the Zune, generating a lot of hype without any traditional marketing. Of course, now it's stepped up into that realm. And most of the ads would be targeted at an MTV style audience so expect your exposure to vary considerably with the shows you watch. The ads you see aren't random after all...
Much larger screen for video? Or maybe simply because you're getting bored of staring at the same old ipod interface every day and hey, customization might actually be nice. I like to mix things up just for the hell of it. I'm not trying to say the Zune is better or worse interface wise. But different is a feature when the market gets saturated.
Just sayin, it's not without some legitimate appeal.
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You can get extra batteries that attach to the dock connector for ipods. I would imagine that would make for one alternative. In fact, owing to the immense popularity of the ipod itself, that compatibility on your phone could come in handy. For example, I've gone on snowboarding trips with my ipod and forgot my charger but every night at the hostels, it only took a few minutes to find someone with a charger. You have to love being a part of the in-crowd :)
If I forgot my cell phone charger, I'd be completely fucked. Cell phone companies tweak their connectors every model, often in a systematic way! Move the notch in the connector to a different place for each new model. It's pretty bad. And then, a couple years later when they feel you're due for a new phone, the chargers are no longer sold even. What started off as a progression for miniaturizing connectors has turned into a corporate strategy. I'd like to choke anyone supportive of the strategy.
I was under the impression that there were two batteries to address this concern directly. Has that thinking/speculation changed?
I too wish OS/2 had won......... er, wait.
If you fully lock out your machine with say a strong password-based encryption, something the forensics experts can't touch, are you required by law to give up the password? Say they bust into your home after figuring out you run some massive child porn ring, but everything is locked down. It'd be pretty obvious that you'd know the login passwords to your own machines. But what are the consequences for not giving up access? Or the key to a removable drive? etc etc... that sort of thing.
If they consider gmail a beta, maybe they shouldn't be pushing it on schools...
Not trying to be an ass but these sorts of things happen all the time by coincidence too. You shouldn't assume it was the update. I'm not saying it wasn't. I don't know. I'm sure apple puts them through a lot of testing. I'd imagine a good percentage of failures on reboot are actually unrelated.
It doesn't hurt that Live enforces certain age restrictions. Hell, minors can't even use Messenger. And offline, parental controls on the 360 can be configured to block games like Halo 3. Who even cares if retailers sell to kids? Console-level enforcement is easily the simplest solution for parents. Jack is totally off base here and needs to put his money where his mouth is. Maybe he thinks Bungie's lolcats target children, haha...
No kidding. Plus, engadget and friends are going to have to be extra careful for a while. It seems like this would be an easy way to make some money shorting a stock. You'd have to pull it off but it's pretty hard not to predict some copy-cat attempts in the coming months.
Let's see Miyamoto do it in 720p on his hardware while we're at it ;)
To me, the Bungie response seems more like wit. They're mocking him for calling out their game, pointing out a lack of maturity rather than being immature about it. They're just playing it out to make us see how ridiculous it is. I think, based on the amount of casual posts I've read from Bungie foaks, that mockery is just part of their culture/humour.
Miyamoto just chose Halo because it happens to be MS's flagship title, without being something entirely new. Bungie is just saying that there's nothing wrong with making a great FPS and sticking with it. It's not like Mario and Zelda haven't gone through a few iterations themselves. Bungie will move on sooner or later, this isn't their first successful IP after all.
The default security blocks them. To run unsigned stuff, you have to set it to accept those scripts. Just a one line command you'll see at the top of almost any blog/tutorial posting on powershell, nothing painful.
MS PowerShell is a separate download for XP, Vista, and Win2K3. It's not included out of the box in any of them. The point of this shell is that it's object oriented. The classic windows shell and most of the others out there (eg bash) aren't. I'd suggest you pay even a tiny bit of attention to what you're reading but you clearly don't seem to care.
Pipe the string you want directly to the clipboard? In theory you'll have an object and should be able to send just a URL or whatnot to the clipboard. I understand your frustration but console output is fixed-width and has line breaks. It's just the way things are done.
The official name is "Microsoft PowerShell" and is not to be referred to as "PowerShell" alone. You shouldn't see anyone from MS calling it otherwise. You're welcome to shorthand the name and cause confusion though :)
PowerShell passes objects. Legitimate instantiated objects. To the best of my knowledge, it does not serialize to XML, pass, then deserialize. Any idea where you read that?
Not the first but the domination mode of UT should be called out here. This is the third major iteration of theirs on this concept. UT Dom, imho, can be considered a failure. I think they should have just added points to DM maps and left it as a minor gametype. But with gears, they're guaranteed players so it's interesting that they chose to try this again. Prior to each release of Dom, we've heard from Epic how awesome it is. I think they're hoping that once people give it more of a chance they'll enjoy it. I personally think most people will stick with the raw versus mode. Perhaps gametype specific maps will persuade people to give it a chance.
They should probably give the new games away for free too. Just to really show they're commited, you know? I'm so sick and tired of them claiming there's some kind of value in this directx stuff.
Now, had you used OpenGL on vista as your example I may have agreed with you...
Now why doesn't it surprise me to see, out of all the people in the industry, Valve's PR guy is making the most noise? Okay, maybe not quite true. What should be noted here that there is HUGE value in the platform. Valve makes a cut when other developers release through Steam. They've invested heavily to become that platform. I'm not sure what all they offer but I assume it extends to distribution, copy protection, matchmaking, buddy lists, etc. Now, with G4W stepping in with the Live platform, they have a very giant competitor. This isn't about enforcing some very sane basic requirements for a half-decent user experience, it's about marketshare wars between live marketplace and steam to be the entry point to buying your games.
The typo checking is likely smarter than just a random 1/x chance of hitting it. Take an ISBN number for example. It's not possible to change one digit or reverse the order of two digits next to each other and get a valid ISBN number. There's a lot of cool stuff like this in code theory that makes designing these kinds of keys as easy as opening a textbook..
I haven't seen any numbers on windows but 25% sounds plausible. Perhaps that's going down now. But regardless, there are a hell of a lot of small computer stores selling machines without windows and get windows installed by the kid down the street. If you don't just consider the US, you might rethink things too.
For Office, I've heard ballpark figures of around 50% that were substantiated pretty well, rather than just pulled out of thin air.
I can't speak for this particular framework but Microsoft pretty well dogfoods anything they can. I'd be surprised if they didn't have at least a small handful of internal teams trying it out.
Just a thought.......
Many CS programs have MSDNAA, which includes a license for windows xp pro. Presumably it will include vista at some point.
I think we're talking about hype along the lines of Engadget. Tech writers were pretty interested in the Zune, generating a lot of hype without any traditional marketing. Of course, now it's stepped up into that realm. And most of the ads would be targeted at an MTV style audience so expect your exposure to vary considerably with the shows you watch. The ads you see aren't random after all...
Much larger screen for video? Or maybe simply because you're getting bored of staring at the same old ipod interface every day and hey, customization might actually be nice. I like to mix things up just for the hell of it. I'm not trying to say the Zune is better or worse interface wise. But different is a feature when the market gets saturated.
Just sayin, it's not without some legitimate appeal.