Heck, I even thought the whole PURPOSE of going with Intel/nvidia was for the ease of backward compatibility.
Surely the purpose of going with Intel/nVidia in the first place was to make it easier for developers to create games for the XBox since it was "so similar to a PC". Compare this to the fiasco that was the opening months for the PS2 where developers were complaining about hard complicated it was to write games for the thing.
I find it interesting that Microsoft are putting aside the mini-PC style nature of the original XBox and moving to a more dedicated console approach that both Sony and Nintendo have had success with.
Microsoft are either second equal, or third, in a three horse race (depending which analyst's sales figures you believe). They have a box which is, arguably, more familiar for game developers to code for than either of the competition.
Yet they've decided that this supposed ease of development is not important enough to retain in the next generation. Is this Microsoft admitting a mistake and "fixing" it with a "real" console, or expressing a vote of confidence in their own market share and believing the XBox built enough mind share that developers will work with a slightly less familiar architecture and still make sufficient games?
Would be nice if they were the next studio to tackle a video game cross over, or the like.
God no. Please no.
I too would like to see a more adult animated movie out of Pixar (and I certainly don't mean Buzz and Mrs Potatohead in some bizarre S&M nightmare), but please no more video game movies! There hasn't been a single good movie from a video game.
Is there a market for PG animated movies yet though? Sure, Slashdot geeks watch Gunslinger Girl , Noir, and Full Metal Alchemist, but would a PG Pixar flick really sell?
Did the Final Fantasy movie really fail because it was bad, or because not enough people wanted that kind of movie in the first place?
The market seems to be building but is it big enough?
Your solution may not be usefull at all in this case.
In this case it would be since Mail Marshal scans unencrypted archive files (zip, sit, tar etc).
It's not the simple "see if it says.exe or.scr" concept most of the responses have been. It's much better than that, as are most current AV and filtering applications.
That's great, coz we all know that a file's extension is inextricably tied to its filetype...
Mail Marshal doesn't give a damn about the extension. It looks at the file content, and determines the file type itself. It also opens and scans unencrypted archives.
You could rename your executable "foo.bar", zip it into an archive, and Mail Marshal would still block it.
Oh, I forgot this is/. so nobody bothered to follow the link and read the capabilities of the program...
The cost of 400 yellow post-it notes saying "DO NOT OPEN FILE IF EXE OR SCR!"
You don't even need this one. Just strip all incoming executables at the mail server so the user never gets anything dangerous to click on.
We did that (at an admittedly small - just under 100 user) site using MailMarshal, now known as NetIQ Marshal.
There's never any good reason to send an executable file via e-mail anyway. Software updates etc are better accessed through ftp or straight off the web. Self extracting archives (zip files) are unnecessary given the number of free decompressors available if the company is too cheap to pay for licenses.
Blocking all (Windows) executables is easy in most filtering software, removes the worry of not being up to date with anti-virus library files, and works 100% of the time.
This was back in the days of the good old Anna Kournikova, ILoveYou and similar viruses. We had exactly zero infections, and zero problems.
Yes you can still get viruses in other ways (if some damn fool downloads a virus direct from a website) but how often does that actually happen? They all come via e-mail, and propagate via e-mail - be it your server or their own SMTP connection.
Who is the ACCC and where are they mentioned in this article? I know. I am a ethnocentric American but ACCC sounds like the Atlantic City Civic Center to me.
Basically an independent watch dog organisation set up through legislation to try to ensure the consumer doesn't get too screwed over in the course of business.
They recently prevented a merger between Qantas and Air New Zealand which would have removed pretty much all competition in the airline industry for flights between the two countries.
They certainly have teeth - which is remarkable for such a body.
They are mentioned in the article as being the first step in the legal process should SCO Australia not respond.
There have been times when I've been wondering where the nearest {insert favorite exotic food} restaurant is.
We're already moving in that direction in NZ, though perhaps not to as sophisticated a degree as to give directions.
Those using Vodafone mobiles have this option (see the Sim2 link) which will let you find restaurants, ATMs etc in the immediate area. It's been available for at least a year that I can remember, and probably longer than that.
The good thing about this option is that it's pull rather than push - the phone user requests the information, it isn't thrown at them indiscriminately.
It was only a matter of time, and there is enormous potential for such things - for both good and evil.
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Nintendo is already on its way out to becoming a software-only company like Sega was. Microsoft is doing reasonably well in the US, but flopping in Japan and Europe. Sony dominates in all three areas, because they've been the standard since the PS1 -- which they're still backwards compatible with, by the way.
Nintendo is hardly on its way out.
The Gamecube is globally selling as much as, or more than, the XBox (depending on which particular analyst you listen to), and Nintendo aren't pumping cash into it like Microsoft are to prop up the XBox. The Gameboy is of course selling in the millions.
Sony has certainly outsold both Nintendo and Microsoft, but neither of the second placed companies are going to be moving out of consoles any time soon. Expect to see a new Nintendo box released, along with the PS3 and the XBox 2, and expect it to perform well.
Contrary to popular belief, a company does not have to be in the number 1 position to be either profitable or successful.
There is room in most markets for multiple competitors. This is something for which I'm exceedingly grateful given that the current incumbent number 1 companies are producing, invariably, lesser experiences than those on a smaller scale.
Calls for a Highlander-esque "there can be only one!" death match are usually only by fanboys who can't see that there must be more than a single "winner".
Amazon has a lot of assumed costs, that aren't necessarilly real, these include depreciation and some other things that are set as standards by the IRS.
Please try again. Better yet, please do some basic Econ 101 or Accounting 101 courses and then come back.
Depreciation is a real cost, as much as paying the staff wages or buying coffee for the CEO. Saying that it's "not really there" is incredibly naieve and misleading. Saying that Amazon is somehhow doing extremely well despite posting large losses is folly.
As you'll see in my daily column, the tax departments actions are clearly a breach of the tax laws which require the department to recover the maximum amount of any debt owed.
As a NZ accountant I'd have to say you're misinterpreting things there.
The Inland Revenue has no legal obligation to look ahead and assume that there is any ability of future earnings to meet past tax debts.
The IRD is simply obligated to pursue the debts in an effort to obtain the maximum possible amount of that debt now. Not some potential amount at some nebulous point in the future. They are not required to consider any potential business deals you may or may not have had. They are simply required to collect their money now.
I've had some pretty disgusting things done by the IRD to some previous clients, which were all legal. There are two things to remember about the Inland Revenue : 1-They have no morals or scruples, and 2-They're usually not very bright.
This is clearly a case of the IRD acting on its own behalf under instruction from someone within the debt collection section. It has nothing to do with any mysterious "agenda" by the NZ Government.
but NZ only has about 5 million people. If you want more banks, then thats great, but you'll be paying for it as the overhead each bank incurs would increase.
Actually, New Zealand has only this year hit the 4 million population mark.
As for the "monopoly" mentioned by the other poster - there isn't one. At worst it would be called an oligopoly, or possibly a cartel. In reality it is, as you note, simply the side effect of NZ being such a small pimple on the ass end of the planet.
For those in NZ who despise the so-called banking monopoly so much there's always the Government owned, low-fee, KiwiBank
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Heck, I even thought the whole PURPOSE of going with Intel/nvidia was for the ease of backward compatibility.
Surely the purpose of going with Intel/nVidia in the first place was to make it easier for developers to create games for the XBox since it was "so similar to a PC". Compare this to the fiasco that was the opening months for the PS2 where developers were complaining about hard complicated it was to write games for the thing.
I find it interesting that Microsoft are putting aside the mini-PC style nature of the original XBox and moving to a more dedicated console approach that both Sony and Nintendo have had success with.
Microsoft are either second equal, or third, in a three horse race (depending which analyst's sales figures you believe). They have a box which is, arguably, more familiar for game developers to code for than either of the competition.
Yet they've decided that this supposed ease of development is not important enough to retain in the next generation. Is this Microsoft admitting a mistake and "fixing" it with a "real" console, or expressing a vote of confidence in their own market share and believing the XBox built enough mind share that developers will work with a slightly less familiar architecture and still make sufficient games?
Would be nice if they were the next studio to tackle a video game cross over, or the like.
God no. Please no.
I too would like to see a more adult animated movie out of Pixar (and I certainly don't mean Buzz and Mrs Potatohead in some bizarre S&M nightmare), but please no more video game movies! There hasn't been a single good movie from a video game.
Is there a market for PG animated movies yet though? Sure, Slashdot geeks watch Gunslinger Girl , Noir, and Full Metal Alchemist, but would a PG Pixar flick really sell?
Did the Final Fantasy movie really fail because it was bad, or because not enough people wanted that kind of movie in the first place?
The market seems to be building but is it big enough?
they used to put an intermission in the middle of these 4 hour movies.
These days they just split it into two movies, and call them Volume 1 and Volume 2.
Your solution may not be usefull at all in this case.
In this case it would be since Mail Marshal scans unencrypted archive files (zip, sit, tar etc).
It's not the simple "see if it says .exe or .scr" concept most of the responses have been. It's much better than that, as are most current AV and filtering applications.
That's great, coz we all know that a file's extension is inextricably tied to its filetype...
Mail Marshal doesn't give a damn about the extension. It looks at the file content, and determines the file type itself. It also opens and scans unencrypted archives.
You could rename your executable "foo.bar", zip it into an archive, and Mail Marshal would still block it.
Oh, I forgot this is /. so nobody bothered to follow the link and read the capabilities of the program...
The cost of 400 yellow post-it notes saying "DO NOT OPEN FILE IF EXE OR SCR!"
You don't even need this one. Just strip all incoming executables at the mail server so the user never gets anything dangerous to click on.
We did that (at an admittedly small - just under 100 user) site using MailMarshal, now known as NetIQ Marshal.
There's never any good reason to send an executable file via e-mail anyway. Software updates etc are better accessed through ftp or straight off the web. Self extracting archives (zip files) are unnecessary given the number of free decompressors available if the company is too cheap to pay for licenses.
Blocking all (Windows) executables is easy in most filtering software, removes the worry of not being up to date with anti-virus library files, and works 100% of the time.
This was back in the days of the good old Anna Kournikova, ILoveYou and similar viruses. We had exactly zero infections, and zero problems.
Yes you can still get viruses in other ways (if some damn fool downloads a virus direct from a website) but how often does that actually happen? They all come via e-mail, and propagate via e-mail - be it your server or their own SMTP connection.
Anyone care to clarify what a wet slap is?
Depending on your idiom of choice :
rat's ass
flying fuck
monkey's bollocks.
And several hundred other variations...
Who is the ACCC and where are they mentioned in this article? I know. I am a ethnocentric American but ACCC sounds like the Atlantic City Civic Center to me.
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
Basically an independent watch dog organisation set up through legislation to try to ensure the consumer doesn't get too screwed over in the course of business.
They recently prevented a merger between Qantas and Air New Zealand which would have removed pretty much all competition in the airline industry for flights between the two countries.
They certainly have teeth - which is remarkable for such a body.
They are mentioned in the article as being the first step in the legal process should SCO Australia not respond.
There have been times when I've been wondering where the nearest {insert favorite exotic food} restaurant is.
We're already moving in that direction in NZ, though perhaps not to as sophisticated a degree as to give directions.
Those using Vodafone mobiles have this option (see the Sim2 link) which will let you find restaurants, ATMs etc in the immediate area. It's been available for at least a year that I can remember, and probably longer than that.
The good thing about this option is that it's pull rather than push - the phone user requests the information, it isn't thrown at them indiscriminately.
It was only a matter of time, and there is enormous potential for such things - for both good and evil.
Nintendo is already on its way out to becoming a software-only company like Sega was. Microsoft is doing reasonably well in the US, but flopping in Japan and Europe. Sony dominates in all three areas, because they've been the standard since the PS1 -- which they're still backwards compatible with, by the way.
Nintendo is hardly on its way out.
The Gamecube is globally selling as much as, or more than, the XBox (depending on which particular analyst you listen to), and Nintendo aren't pumping cash into it like Microsoft are to prop up the XBox. The Gameboy is of course selling in the millions.
Sony has certainly outsold both Nintendo and Microsoft, but neither of the second placed companies are going to be moving out of consoles any time soon. Expect to see a new Nintendo box released, along with the PS3 and the XBox 2, and expect it to perform well.
Contrary to popular belief, a company does not have to be in the number 1 position to be either profitable or successful.
There is room in most markets for multiple competitors. This is something for which I'm exceedingly grateful given that the current incumbent number 1 companies are producing, invariably, lesser experiences than those on a smaller scale.
Calls for a Highlander-esque "there can be only one!" death match are usually only by fanboys who can't see that there must be more than a single "winner".
Besides building Eniac
Forget Eniac, I want Orac on a chip...
No, the iPod Mini has a 4GB drive and sells for $249.
See here (among other sources)
Never, ever trust the Mac rumour sites. They are, without exception, crap.
Amazon has a lot of assumed costs, that aren't necessarilly real, these include depreciation and some other things that are set as standards by the IRS.
Please try again. Better yet, please do some basic Econ 101 or Accounting 101 courses and then come back.
Depreciation is a real cost, as much as paying the staff wages or buying coffee for the CEO. Saying that it's "not really there" is incredibly naieve and misleading. Saying that Amazon is somehhow doing extremely well despite posting large losses is folly.
As you'll see in my daily column, the tax departments actions are clearly a breach of the tax laws which require the department to recover the maximum amount of any debt owed.
As a NZ accountant I'd have to say you're misinterpreting things there.
The Inland Revenue has no legal obligation to look ahead and assume that there is any ability of future earnings to meet past tax debts.
The IRD is simply obligated to pursue the debts in an effort to obtain the maximum possible amount of that debt now. Not some potential amount at some nebulous point in the future. They are not required to consider any potential business deals you may or may not have had. They are simply required to collect their money now.
I've had some pretty disgusting things done by the IRD to some previous clients, which were all legal. There are two things to remember about the Inland Revenue : 1-They have no morals or scruples, and 2-They're usually not very bright.
This is clearly a case of the IRD acting on its own behalf under instruction from someone within the debt collection section. It has nothing to do with any mysterious "agenda" by the NZ Government.
but NZ only has about 5 million people. If you want more banks, then thats great, but you'll be paying for it as the overhead each bank incurs would increase.
Actually, New Zealand has only this year hit the 4 million population mark.
As for the "monopoly" mentioned by the other poster - there isn't one. At worst it would be called an oligopoly, or possibly a cartel. In reality it is, as you note, simply the side effect of NZ being such a small pimple on the ass end of the planet.
For those in NZ who despise the so-called banking monopoly so much there's always the Government owned, low-fee, KiwiBank