The evidence for this is an unamed "UK news source, citing retail contacts." And a Sony patent on "technology which would tie a piece of software to an individual piece of hardware." Also, Sony isn't commenting on this story.
But the article also points out how technological enforcement would be difficult, and how such a move would completely piss off both retailers and consumers.
I can't see Sony actually doing this, I really don't think it makes a lot of business sense. But then, I never thought they would charge $600 for a PS3.
My version of the book is titled Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to Professional. The title on the Barnes and Noble link says Beginning PHP and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional, but the cover shown at that same link reads Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional. So there is some confusion.
There seems to be accusations of "faking it" at every E3. I guess the industry has brought it on itself, showing stuff like the supposed Madden for Xbox 360 screen shots that were much better than the actual game when it shipped. This stuff has been going on for years and it's no wonder that audiences are wary of being duped by faked demos.
But 6 months before the console hits the shelves, the only hardware that exists is in prototype versions. It is not suprising that the floor models were put together with duct tape, GameCube cases and whatever else they had on-hand. I would be suprised if the actual Wii games don't look better than what Nintendo had on display at this years E3, as developers have more time to work on games and get them polished.
Here is another list of characteristics of a hypothetical Aunt Bettie Mae:
1. Doesn't think much of kids today and their MTV and their video games 2. Thinks the world of Larry King and Andy Rooney, and that nice boy Anderson Cooper is alright, too.
How do you think she will feel when she sees some newscaster she trusts interviewing someone who confirms her preconceived ideas?
Whether you and I ignore him won't have much effect. It's whether the media ignore him. But it looks like they might be, since this press release is just him begging for someone to let him be on the air. If he can't get major news outlets to care about the non-story of the Oblivion rating change, he can't get on TV.
Re:Old Concept Revisited with more schmaltz
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Review: Nintendogs
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I'd probably lean toward some other animal than a dog. A cat would be easy,
Nintendo considered having cats in the game. Here is an excerpt from a Eurogamer interview with Nintendogs creator Hideki Konno:
Eurogamer: You mentioned there that you were looking at other types of animals... Why did you pick puppies in the end?
Hideki Konno: We narrowed down the candidates into dogs and cats - after all, they are the two main types of companion animals loved by people all around the world. Why dogs instead of cats? Well, one of the things we really wanted to do was to let players teach tricks by utilising their own voices.
Cats are at a disadvantage when it comes to learning tricks, and also we wanted to have animals with much more fun-loving natures - we wanted the animals to be able to take part in contests, such as agility competitions, and we wanted people to be able to take their pets for a walk. So we decided that dogs were more preferable than cats when it came to realising those elements.
When is the last time a solid freeware game caught the imagination of millions? About 15 years.
That's because with today's hardware and the expectation of modern day gamers, it is not economically feasible for a couple guys in their garage to make a massively popular game.
Game development costs are huge. It takes as much or more money to make a AAA title as it does to make a Hollywood movie. And when an innovative and original title comes out and is met in the market with a yawn and no sales (Ico, Res, Katamari Damacy, Animal Crossing - great reviews, no sales), it makes it that much more unlikely that publishers will finance another one.
It's not that there are original ideas are rare, it's that those ideas don't sell a million copies, and that's what you need to finance a game today.
the Microsoft booth was nothing more than a neon XBOX sign and a projector connected to an xbox, no 360, nothing.
The Microsoft 'booth' was a joke. The girl there handed me a 60-day trial copy of One Note, something I know every gamer is drooling over. How hard would it have been to bring a few more XBoxen and a couple of demos of unreleased games? Bungie, Microsoft Game Studios and Microsoft headquarters are all only 5 minutes away from the convention center.
Still a single point of failure
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Basics of RAID
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· Score: 5, Interesting
With RAID, you still have a single point of failure. Instead of it being your hard drive, it is now your RAID controller. So what is the advantage?
Since a RAID controller doesn't have moving parts, is it less likely than a hard drive to fail?
Because one general in an obscure military journal tossed out the idea doesn't mean that the US supports this position, is working towards achieving this goal, or really much else.
Colonizing, or capturing, or whatever exactly the military wants to do with the LaGrange points is decades if not centuries away, and decades if not centuries away from being militarily significant. It is in no way feasable right now, given the ballooning US budget deficit. Our current national debt could not take the strain that the financial burden of such an endeavor would entail. This is nothing more than one soldier's wet dream.
The Hall, once located in Lawrence, Kansas, is now a part of the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle.
The Hall was originally run be a group in Lawrence, Kansas, but there was no actual physical place. They would hold meetings to induct members, then send plaques to the new inductees. It wasn't until the Science Fiction Museum worked out a deal to house the place that it became a physical reality, some place that you could go visit.
Also, the Kansas group was the Sci Fi/Fantasy Hall of Fame, but the Seattle Sci-Fi Museum didn't want to include fantasy. Fortunately, all the members with a background in fantasy also had at least some sci-fi in their ouevre.
Bill Nye was an engineer at Boeing before he was a comedian. He was on Almost Live! for years. I remember when I first saw the Bill Nye the Science Guy character was in an Almost Live! sketch. He was spoofing Mr. Wizard and I think he was really inept and caught himself on fire. Later, he took the character on David Letterman and doing other TV guest spots, before finally getting his own show.
Although the article says it was inspired by a StrongBad email, it was actually inspired by another post-it note creation, that of Trogdor from StrongBad.
Well, it may not be copyright infringement, but if he cracked the DRM to access the silence, it is indeed a crime under the DCMA. Which is one of the big problems with the DCMA. Even if you have a legal right to the material that is copy protected, you cannot crack the copy protection without committing a crime.
Either the artist wants to be pauid twice... or SBC wants to both give away the work and keep it.
Neither actually. It is the city of Chicago that is exercising the copyright. They want to have the monopoly on t-shirts, postcards, etc. that feature the bean. This is a problem that can easily be fixed at the next election.
While I'm sure that the store thinks they don't want you as a customer, they may be wrong.
My wife has shopping patterns that baffle me. She will go to the store and buy a bunch of stuff that she is not sure that she really wants. She knows that she will later decide that she doesn't really want a percentage of what she has purchased. After a couple weeks, if she hasn't taken the clothes out of the bag, she figures she doesn't like it enough to keep it. She will return the stuff to the store. While she is there making the return, she will usually pick up some more stuff, a percentage of which she will also return in a few weeks.
Now this has does result in lots of returns, and might flag her as an "excessive returner." But her shopping habits keep her going back to the store every couple weeks. It keeps her shopping. Yes, she returns a lot. But she ends up buying more stuff than she would if the store didn't have such a generous return policy. And it is the stores' return policies that actually spur greater sales.
If my wife had trouble returning so much merchandise, she would end up buying less overall and frequenting the store less. I don't think that this database system takes into account these kinds of shopping patterns, and the benefits of a liberal exchange policy. However, maybe the data will eventually show how this policy alienates customers and reduces the amount of the average purchase, and stores will see the error of their ways.
Yes, LM hashed passwords have been insecure for years, since L0phtCrack came out. Since then, as processor power has increased, it has only gotten quicker to crack passwords.
If you have 95/98 machines on your NT or 2000 network, your passwords are not secure, period.
Redmond used to be called MCP Magazine, as in Microsoft Certified Professionals. I got a free subscription when I got my MCSE, and the magazine has certainly had a focus on Microsoft certification. Much of the advertising is related to training boot camps and testing aids, and there are monthly statistics on certification. The name change is very recent, as I guess the magazine is trying to broaden it's appeal.
It's called the Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System, or MILES. It's been in use in the army since the 80's. They even make sensors for tanks and Humvees, as well as individual soldiers. The laser transmitter attaches to the barrel of an actual M-16, and is activated by the sound from the firing of blanks, so you approximate the noise and weapon kickback you would with firing an actual round.
Which Klingon ship does it resemble? A battle cruiser or a bird of prey? I can't see any pictures because the site is slashdotted.
Re:What's he going to swing on?
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Spider-Man in India
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· Score: 3, Informative
The loose fitting dohti looks silly with the skin tight top. The contrast is ridiculous, but I guess it's a comic book, so you have to show the ripped muscles.
Spider-Man: The Manga was released in the US in 1997. It was written and drawn by Ryoichi Ikegami. He may be familiar to some american fans, as he was the artist on Crying Freeman and Sanctuary, two popular Japanese manga titles release in the US by Dark Horse comics. Here's a cover: http://www.spiderfan.org/cgi-bin/cover.pl?80123,sp iderman_manga,021.jpg
dude, thats creepy your website has a bunch of naked kids on it;
That was the only picture of my house that I could find at the time. The kids are just running through the sprinkler. Crap, I'm probably going to get investigated for child pornography now that you pointed that out. Our yard has a high fence, so while none of my neighbors have seen the kids running around naked, *millions* of people on the internet have.
In a related note, I did own the Thriller album in high school.
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The evidence for this is an unamed "UK news source, citing retail contacts." And a Sony patent on "technology which would tie a piece of software to an individual piece of hardware." Also, Sony isn't commenting on this story.
But the article also points out how technological enforcement would be difficult, and how such a move would completely piss off both retailers and consumers.
I can't see Sony actually doing this, I really don't think it makes a lot of business sense. But then, I never thought they would charge $600 for a PS3.
My version of the book is titled Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to Professional. The title on the Barnes and Noble link says Beginning PHP and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional, but the cover shown at that same link reads Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional. So there is some confusion.
ummm... protect Ranier Wolfcastle from the river of acid, I think.
http://gogglesdonothing.ytmnd.com/
There seems to be accusations of "faking it" at every E3. I guess the industry has brought it on itself, showing stuff like the supposed Madden for Xbox 360 screen shots that were much better than the actual game when it shipped. This stuff has been going on for years and it's no wonder that audiences are wary of being duped by faked demos.
But 6 months before the console hits the shelves, the only hardware that exists is in prototype versions. It is not suprising that the floor models were put together with duct tape, GameCube cases and whatever else they had on-hand. I would be suprised if the actual Wii games don't look better than what Nintendo had on display at this years E3, as developers have more time to work on games and get them polished.
Here is another list of characteristics of a hypothetical Aunt Bettie Mae:
1. Doesn't think much of kids today and their MTV and their video games
2. Thinks the world of Larry King and Andy Rooney, and that nice boy Anderson Cooper is alright, too.
How do you think she will feel when she sees some newscaster she trusts interviewing someone who confirms her preconceived ideas?
Whether you and I ignore him won't have much effect. It's whether the media ignore him. But it looks like they might be, since this press release is just him begging for someone to let him be on the air. If he can't get major news outlets to care about the non-story of the Oblivion rating change, he can't get on TV.
I'd probably lean toward some other animal than a dog. A cat would be easy,
Nintendo considered having cats in the game. Here is an excerpt from a Eurogamer interview with Nintendogs creator Hideki Konno:
Eurogamer: You mentioned there that you were looking at other types of animals... Why did you pick puppies in the end?
Hideki Konno: We narrowed down the candidates into dogs and cats - after all, they are the two main types of companion animals loved by people all around the world. Why dogs instead of cats? Well, one of the things we really wanted to do was to let players teach tricks by utilising their own voices.
Cats are at a disadvantage when it comes to learning tricks, and also we wanted to have animals with much more fun-loving natures - we wanted the animals to be able to take part in contests, such as agility competitions, and we wanted people to be able to take their pets for a walk. So we decided that dogs were more preferable than cats when it came to realising those elements.
I've seen figures of around 125,000 units sold for Katamari. That's an okay number, not a flop, but hardly a run-away hit.
When is the last time a solid freeware game caught the imagination of millions? About 15 years.
That's because with today's hardware and the expectation of modern day gamers, it is not economically feasible for a couple guys in their garage to make a massively popular game.
Game development costs are huge. It takes as much or more money to make a AAA title as it does to make a Hollywood movie. And when an innovative and original title comes out and is met in the market with a yawn and no sales (Ico, Res, Katamari Damacy, Animal Crossing - great reviews, no sales), it makes it that much more unlikely that publishers will finance another one.
It's not that there are original ideas are rare, it's that those ideas don't sell a million copies, and that's what you need to finance a game today.
the Microsoft booth was nothing more than a neon XBOX sign and a projector connected to an xbox, no 360, nothing.
The Microsoft 'booth' was a joke. The girl there handed me a 60-day trial copy of One Note, something I know every gamer is drooling over. How hard would it have been to bring a few more XBoxen and a couple of demos of unreleased games? Bungie, Microsoft Game Studios and Microsoft headquarters are all only 5 minutes away from the convention center.
With RAID, you still have a single point of failure. Instead of it being your hard drive, it is now your RAID controller. So what is the advantage?
Since a RAID controller doesn't have moving parts, is it less likely than a hard drive to fail?
Because one general in an obscure military journal tossed out the idea doesn't mean that the US supports this position, is working towards achieving this goal, or really much else.
Colonizing, or capturing, or whatever exactly the military wants to do with the LaGrange points is decades if not centuries away, and decades if not centuries away from being militarily significant. It is in no way feasable right now, given the ballooning US budget deficit. Our current national debt could not take the strain that the financial burden of such an endeavor would entail. This is nothing more than one soldier's wet dream.
The Hall, once located in Lawrence, Kansas, is now a part of the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle.
The Hall was originally run be a group in Lawrence, Kansas, but there was no actual physical place. They would hold meetings to induct members, then send plaques to the new inductees. It wasn't until the Science Fiction Museum worked out a deal to house the place that it became a physical reality, some place that you could go visit.
Also, the Kansas group was the Sci Fi/Fantasy Hall of Fame, but the Seattle Sci-Fi Museum didn't want to include fantasy. Fortunately, all the members with a background in fantasy also had at least some sci-fi in their ouevre.
Bill Nye was an engineer at Boeing before he was a comedian. He was on Almost Live! for years. I remember when I first saw the Bill Nye the Science Guy character was in an Almost Live! sketch. He was spoofing Mr. Wizard and I think he was really inept and caught himself on fire. Later, he took the character on David Letterman and doing other TV guest spots, before finally getting his own show.
Although the article says it was inspired by a StrongBad email, it was actually inspired by another post-it note creation, that of Trogdor from StrongBad.
Well, it may not be copyright infringement, but if he cracked the DRM to access the silence, it is indeed a crime under the DCMA. Which is one of the big problems with the DCMA. Even if you have a legal right to the material that is copy protected, you cannot crack the copy protection without committing a crime.
Either the artist wants to be pauid twice ... or SBC wants to both give away the work and keep it.
Neither actually. It is the city of Chicago that is exercising the copyright. They want to have the monopoly on t-shirts, postcards, etc. that feature the bean. This is a problem that can easily be fixed at the next election.
While I'm sure that the store thinks they don't want you as a customer, they may be wrong.
My wife has shopping patterns that baffle me. She will go to the store and buy a bunch of stuff that she is not sure that she really wants. She knows that she will later decide that she doesn't really want a percentage of what she has purchased. After a couple weeks, if she hasn't taken the clothes out of the bag, she figures she doesn't like it enough to keep it. She will return the stuff to the store. While she is there making the return, she will usually pick up some more stuff, a percentage of which she will also return in a few weeks.
Now this has does result in lots of returns, and might flag her as an "excessive returner." But her shopping habits keep her going back to the store every couple weeks. It keeps her shopping. Yes, she returns a lot. But she ends up buying more stuff than she would if the store didn't have such a generous return policy. And it is the stores' return policies that actually spur greater sales.
If my wife had trouble returning so much merchandise, she would end up buying less overall and frequenting the store less. I don't think that this database system takes into account these kinds of shopping patterns, and the benefits of a liberal exchange policy. However, maybe the data will eventually show how this policy alienates customers and reduces the amount of the average purchase, and stores will see the error of their ways.
Yes, LM hashed passwords have been insecure for years, since L0phtCrack came out. Since then, as processor power has increased, it has only gotten quicker to crack passwords.
If you have 95/98 machines on your NT or 2000 network, your passwords are not secure, period.
Redmond used to be called MCP Magazine, as in Microsoft Certified Professionals. I got a free subscription when I got my MCSE, and the magazine has certainly had a focus on Microsoft certification. Much of the advertising is related to training boot camps and testing aids, and there are monthly statistics on certification. The name change is very recent, as I guess the magazine is trying to broaden it's appeal.
It's called the Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System, or MILES. It's been in use in the army since the 80's. They even make sensors for tanks and Humvees, as well as individual soldiers. The laser transmitter attaches to the barrel of an actual M-16, and is activated by the sound from the firing of blanks, so you approximate the noise and weapon kickback you would with firing an actual round.
Some links (the second with pictures):
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/miles.htm
http://www.peostri.army.mil/PRODUCTS/MILES/
Which Klingon ship does it resemble? A battle cruiser or a bird of prey? I can't see any pictures because the site is slashdotted.
The loose fitting dohti looks silly with the skin tight top. The contrast is ridiculous, but I guess it's a comic book, so you have to show the ripped muscles.
Spider-Man: The Manga was released in the US in 1997. It was written and drawn by Ryoichi Ikegami. He may be familiar to some american fans, as he was the artist on Crying Freeman and Sanctuary, two popular Japanese manga titles release in the US by Dark Horse comics. Here's a cover: http://www.spiderfan.org/cgi-bin/cover.pl?80123,sp iderman_manga,021.jpg
dude, thats creepy your website has a bunch of naked kids on it;
That was the only picture of my house that I could find at the time. The kids are just running through the sprinkler. Crap, I'm probably going to get investigated for child pornography now that you pointed that out. Our yard has a high fence, so while none of my neighbors have seen the kids running around naked, *millions* of people on the internet have.
In a related note, I did own the Thriller album in high school.