This sounds like a clear example of the arrogant 'small god' ego that most sysadmins develop. The system belongs to the city. Its not his personal property.
He has no liability for the security of any system at work after he's been fired. If he really was worried about it, he could/should have just asked them to sign a disclaimer of his liability before he handed the password over.
To be honest, if this does endanger all those mini-hitlers that make developers lives hell, then I'm all for it.
>> They've recently said it's "vital" to the success of their games and promised that their DRM would "evolve and improve" over time.
Yeah and a lack of DRM is "vital" to my purchasing decision. I promise that my software purchases will "evolve and improve" away from all UBIsoft products and those of any other company that doesn't put the user first.
EA will lose my business then, as I'm not about to fork out $45+ on (non-refundable) game to just find out if its any good or not after I've paid for it.
Part of the problem is that you just can't trust many PC games review sites, as they often give 90+% marks to the most terrible DRM'd, buggy or just crappy games apparently just because the games company is overhyping it as the next blockbuster. It seems the reviewers are more concerned about protecting their backhanders and future advertising revenue than their journalistic integrity and readership.
I really can't imagine that it takes much extra effort to produce a demo anyway... they're usually just the final product with most of the content/levels taken out.
>> It never ceases to amaze me how the company that SHOULD produce some of the best code in the world (given revenue and longevity) instead seems to almost invariable produce code based on the "quickest and cheapest" principle.
Thats what happens when accountants get more say than engineers in the important decisions. The big problem is that missed sales can't be counted. The real problem is that most people will still buy Microsoft products no matter how bad they get, and Microsoft know it too.
The reason is, no matter how much Microsoft give to charity (and I don't believe they do anyway, its actually Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation who is the big philanthropist ) Cancer Research is not Microsoft's primary activity. Software is.
Microsoft only care about big corporates interests like the RIAA and MPAA. They absolutely don't care about their own home or small business customers interests. Furthermore they do the bare minimum, their products suck, they strangle innovation, they hold the whole industry back just so they can make more money at any cost. They've made that VERY clear MANY times. Give me one reason why I a non-corp customer and a software developer shouldn't criticise Microsoft for failing to care about my interests or the interests of the industry I work in.
if you haven't already watched the "collateral murder" video on wikileaks, you must. It will open your eyes.
Its scary how the American gunner is just begging for excuses to execute people. He invents an excuse that the guy who is obviously just holding a camera has an RPG. They quickly escalate one implausible gun sighting (which was clearly a shoulder bag) into the fact all the people are carrying AK-47s when they are clearly empty-handed. They even followup by shooting an obviously unarmed ambulance team that includes kids, which turned up after just to help the injured.
This is what Americans are actually doing abroad. This is how the world sees America.
Its scary that the army can put such crassly stupid and vicious people in charge of such powerful killing machines. Its scary that the army are defending these killers and the army are clearly beyond the reach of the law.
This is our country doing this. We are the bad guys. To all those that think America is honorable, and right to be in Afghanistan, watch this video then think again.
C and C++ are great langauges. I guess all the script kiddies are whining because they can't handle a language that bites you if you're a hacky programmer.
Smokers are stupid. Its self-evident. You'd have to be really short on intelligence to be a smoker these days. I'm surprised the difference in scores isn't greater.
I think C and C++ are way cooler than Java and.Net. I think coolness is inversely proportional to bloat, and also inversely proportional to someone else deciding that you're too stupid to do the right thing, which is why I also think all Microsoft products especially Windows suck ass (becuase Microsoft presume all users dont know what they are doing). Java and.Net are like those plastic scissors with the ends rounded off. C and C++ are like a surgeon's scalpel in comparison. Yes its much more efficient and yes you can hurt yourself if you don't know what you're doing.
I can see governments using this as justification to remove all our freedoms. What happens to individual rights when all countries are dictatorships and there's no 'free world' with an army left to fight for democracy?
Dude the "home video of the TV screen" thing blows massive chunks in terms of picture quality compared to the original HD mage, no matter how good your equipment is or how carefully you control the lighting.
I guess you're the sort of person that thinks highly compressed MP3 sounds indistinguishable from a live band too.
Its differences in speed that cause problems, not speed itself. Dropping the speed limit is actually more dangerous because it causes more frustration and lane-swapping. The speed limits are already ridiculously low because its beeen subverted into a revenue-generating mechanism under the guise of safety. To save lives they need to increase speed limits and make driving tests harder, not block the roads up even more. The cops should spend more time watching out for all the morons that apply makeup or text while driving. I see cops ignore that stuff all the time, but driving safely wile going more than 5 mph over an unrealistically low limit will get you stopped all the time.
>> The PlayStation 3 is the only product I know that loses features throughout its lifecycle.
Presuming youre talking about artificial limitations, Microsoft have been doing it for years. For example, I can watch Blu-ray under XP. No such luck with Vista or Windows 7 thanks to the extra DRM and my non-hdcp monitor.
I work in the avionics industry, some of our products use touchscreens. I find touchscreens are much slower/less productive in use compared to a keyboard/mouse setup. Also they get very icky very quickly. Sometimes its even hard to read the screen after a few people have used the system, apparently some people like to rub their hands in dirty sump oil before using touchscreens. Personally I choose just about any other form of input over touchscreen when possible.
Because the speed limit has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with revenue generation. They WANT you to speed. Thats why the speed limits are set so stupidly low. Many cities would be financially screwed without the income from speeding fines. Autobahns in Germany are a great example that humans are quite capable of driving fast, safely. If they REALLY wanted to increase road-safety in the US, they should make the driving test a lot tougher. Like at least as tough as it is in Europe.
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>> Playboy's and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition are still available on the App Store, however, as they come from 'more reputable companies
Ahh so kids seeing "reputable" porn is OK then ehh Steve? ... Obviously this actually has nothing to do with porn and all to do with licencing revenue.
Its only a misdemeanour? Wow I bet that has the CIA/police/government quaking in their boots. Laughing that is.
How is violating someones body with a microchip much different from rape? It should get the same penalty.
This sounds like a clear example of the arrogant 'small god' ego that most sysadmins develop. The system belongs to the city. Its not his personal property.
He has no liability for the security of any system at work after he's been fired. If he really was worried about it, he could/should have just asked them to sign a disclaimer of his liability before he handed the password over.
To be honest, if this does endanger all those mini-hitlers that make developers lives hell, then I'm all for it.
>> They've recently said it's "vital" to the success of their games and promised that their DRM would "evolve and improve" over time.
Yeah and a lack of DRM is "vital" to my purchasing decision. I promise that my software purchases will "evolve and improve" away from all UBIsoft products and those of any other company that doesn't put the user first.
Lets see who cracks first shall we?
err... I meant Crytek
EA will lose my business then, as I'm not about to fork out $45+ on (non-refundable) game to just find out if its any good or not after I've paid for it.
Part of the problem is that you just can't trust many PC games review sites, as they often give 90+% marks to the most terrible DRM'd, buggy or just crappy games apparently just because the games company is overhyping it as the next blockbuster. It seems the reviewers are more concerned about protecting their backhanders and future advertising revenue than their journalistic integrity and readership.
I really can't imagine that it takes much extra effort to produce a demo anyway... they're usually just the final product with most of the content/levels taken out.
>> It never ceases to amaze me how the company that SHOULD produce some of the best code in the world (given revenue and longevity) instead seems to almost invariable produce code based on the "quickest and cheapest" principle.
Thats what happens when accountants get more say than engineers in the important decisions. The big problem is that missed sales can't be counted. The real problem is that most people will still buy Microsoft products no matter how bad they get, and Microsoft know it too.
The reason is, no matter how much Microsoft give to charity (and I don't believe they do anyway, its actually Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation who is the big philanthropist ) Cancer Research is not Microsoft's primary activity. Software is.
Microsoft only care about big corporates interests like the RIAA and MPAA. They absolutely don't care about their own home or small business customers interests. Furthermore they do the bare minimum, their products suck, they strangle innovation, they hold the whole industry back just so they can make more money at any cost. They've made that VERY clear MANY times. Give me one reason why I a non-corp customer and a software developer shouldn't criticise Microsoft for failing to care about my interests or the interests of the industry I work in.
>> if you look it from the POV from a paranoid nervous young military helicopter pilot,
Agreed. It raises the question about the minimum requirements of people for doing the job though.
>> I have to say though that the US military seem to have a reputation of being more trigger happy, and even since the WWII days
Agreed again. Only RAF fighter loses in the Iraq war were to 'friendly' fire from US.
http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/scotsman-edinburgh-scotland-the/mi_7951/is_2003_March_24/inquiry-missile-downs-raf-jet/ai_n33431453/
I'd never by a phone with this in, if there were alternatives available.
I value my privacy and the battery life of my phone too much.
if you haven't already watched the "collateral murder" video on wikileaks, you must. It will open your eyes.
Its scary how the American gunner is just begging for excuses to execute people. He invents an excuse that the guy who is obviously just holding a camera has an RPG. They quickly escalate one implausible gun sighting (which was clearly a shoulder bag) into the fact all the people are carrying AK-47s when they are clearly empty-handed. They even followup by shooting an obviously unarmed ambulance team that includes kids, which turned up after just to help the injured.
This is what Americans are actually doing abroad. This is how the world sees America.
Its scary that the army can put such crassly stupid and vicious people in charge of such powerful killing machines. Its scary that the army are defending these killers and the army are clearly beyond the reach of the law.
This is our country doing this. We are the bad guys. To all those that think America is honorable, and right to be in Afghanistan, watch this video then think again.
C and C++ are great langauges.
I guess all the script kiddies are whining because they can't handle a language that bites you if you're a hacky programmer.
Smokers are stupid. Its self-evident.
You'd have to be really short on intelligence to be a smoker these days. I'm surprised the difference in scores isn't greater.
According to wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations
Israel is 34th best with a national average IQ of 94.
IF you're American, don't mock. The US is only 19th best globally with an average of 98.
I think C and C++ are way cooler than Java and .Net. .Net are like those plastic scissors with the ends rounded off.
I think coolness is inversely proportional to bloat, and also inversely proportional to someone else deciding that you're too stupid to do the right thing, which is why I also think all Microsoft products especially Windows suck ass (becuase Microsoft presume all users dont know what they are doing).
Java and
C and C++ are like a surgeon's scalpel in comparison. Yes its much more efficient and yes you can hurt yourself if you don't know what you're doing.
>> your Win-XP system today still supports all the features that it officially supported when you bought it.
Not true.
XP SP3 killed it.
I can see governments using this as justification to remove all our freedoms.
What happens to individual rights when all countries are dictatorships and there's no 'free world' with an army left to fight for democracy?
Dude the "home video of the TV screen" thing blows massive chunks in terms of picture quality compared to the original HD mage, no matter how good your equipment is or how carefully you control the lighting.
I guess you're the sort of person that thinks highly compressed MP3 sounds indistinguishable from a live band too.
In that case your monitor must either support HDCP, or your not running at full 1080p, or you've got something like AnyDVD HD installed.
Bzzt wrong.
My DVI monitor is way older than HDCP.
Its differences in speed that cause problems, not speed itself.
Dropping the speed limit is actually more dangerous because it causes more frustration and lane-swapping.
The speed limits are already ridiculously low because its beeen subverted into a revenue-generating mechanism under the guise of safety. To save lives they need to increase speed limits and make driving tests harder, not block the roads up even more.
The cops should spend more time watching out for all the morons that apply makeup or text while driving. I see cops ignore that stuff all the time, but driving safely wile going more than 5 mph over an unrealistically low limit will get you stopped all the time.
>> The PlayStation 3 is the only product I know that loses features throughout its lifecycle.
Presuming youre talking about artificial limitations, Microsoft have been doing it for years.
For example, I can watch Blu-ray under XP. No such luck with Vista or Windows 7 thanks to the extra DRM and my non-hdcp monitor.
I work in the avionics industry, some of our products use touchscreens. I find touchscreens are much slower/less productive in use compared to a keyboard/mouse setup. Also they get very icky very quickly. Sometimes its even hard to read the screen after a few people have used the system, apparently some people like to rub their hands in dirty sump oil before using touchscreens. Personally I choose just about any other form of input over touchscreen when possible.
Because the speed limit has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with revenue generation. They WANT you to speed. Thats why the speed limits are set so stupidly low. Many cities would be financially screwed without the income from speeding fines.
Autobahns in Germany are a great example that humans are quite capable of driving fast, safely.
If they REALLY wanted to increase road-safety in the US, they should make the driving test a lot tougher. Like at least as tough as it is in Europe.
>> If you can find a samsung xyz model TV there for cheeper why not
Because you cant. ever.
They charge a hefty price premium and continue to get away with it only because many people are too dumb to shop around.