This is both old news and a very week exploit. The fact that firefox is built with XUL which it can also render has made it vulnerable to these exploits since day one. There are already examples out there of "Web Sites" (XUL applications) that can cause a pop up window that look and work just like a new browser windows except that they can filter the content entered into any field in the browser or other site to any where else fro tracking and stealing of information.
On the Firehose before Christmas weekend... Can someone explain how this is news that hits the main page when other articles in the firehose that are bright ass red and ready to go get completely passed over. I mean the articles about Activision and their proprietary controllers was far more news worthy than XBox Live not being able to handle increased capacity. Seriously is Activision paying the editors here to keep their bad press of the main page or is the anti-Microsoft sentiment just that high.
If someone who is not under a non-disclosure agreement finds out the secret and publishes, there's pretty much nothing the company can do except whine at him. They can sue whoever broke the non-disclosure, but the guy who publishes is in the clear. This is not entirely true from my understanding of US law. NDAs and other contracts are protected by legal statute. Violation of a legal statute is illegal. Making an agreement with someone to break the law is called conspiracy and is also illegal. Finding out something is one thing, but asking, or enticing, someone to break the law is another.
When Nintendo said they would be ready for it, what they meant was they would be ready to profit. what is happening is that Nintendo isn't hardly shipping any units, just enough to make it appear that the product is available in stores. Instead they are setting up hundreds of Ebay accounts and selling the hardware directly to the customers through auction. This allows them to charge the same price as Sony and MS with it appearing like they have the cheaper console, while making 4 times the profit they would have with their MSRP.
If you don't beleive me then check out this stack of Wii's which is more than any Best Buy has received all year.
Ok there is my conspiracy theory of they day. Enjoy.
Freedom of information is a great thing as long as it is a true freedom of information which with laws like this it is not. Why is it that past acts of criminals are free to post for public viewing yet the same people that want that information are the first to jump and say that tapping their phone or filming them without permission is ethically wrong.
Lets just make all conversations and actions a matter of public record. Imagine how much better our decisions would be with this information. If we could just go home, look up someones name and determine whether we agree with their history or not it would really free us from having to actually get to know people.
You know what lets go all the way and make all thoughts a matter or public record. What a wonderfully safe world we would live in then.
First you are implying that all evolution must be beneficial, or worse yet obviously beneficial. Evolution is change, not benefit. Read up on the fallacy of devolution if you want to understand that more.
Second those same things you are say are not evolution are by definition evolution. There is no longer a reason for mutation to occur which will reduce congenital defects so why would an evolutionary chain waste generation of solving the issue. So instead mutations can occur in areas of genetics which are actually important to modern mankind.
...mainstreamish things like Neubauten. I'm not sure what mainstreamish means but I'm guessing that if the band is not available in the local outlet malls then it's not mainstream. In other words Neubauten is not mainstreamish. But what is even worse is you miss conception that purchases of Neubauten recordings does not support the RIAA. Neubauten is signed to Mute Records which is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMI with is one of the largest suppliers of funds to the RIAA (Though this has dropped recently it has certainly not dropped to nothing). Even if you purchased a recording directly from members of the band without a single dime of it going to the bands record label (which is probably a violation of their contract) you are still supporting the label by supporting their bands.
I love the idea of the boycott as a means of consumer control, but trying to boycott the Big Four is just short of saying that you will no longer be listening to music, record or otherwise (and this is coming from some one with an extensive collections of independent unsigned musics and a promoter of such musicians).
Obviously the jury in the "fair" trial that she received disagrees with you. Personally I think getting away with just a fine, after wasting the courts and peoples time, should be considered a gift. But my point was that fighting when you are clearly in the wrong is not usually the best approach. She could have gotten away with the crime and not been labeled as guilty for a few dollars (which she have been easy for her to come by since she owned a computer and had time to rip and share mp3s). The best you can hope for once it goes to court is a Not Guilty verdict which is considerably different than being innocent.
Isn't it only a fair trial if you win. I don't think I have ever heard of someone losing a trial and then stating, "that was a really fair trial and I got what I deserved." I applaud anyone that turns down a settlement offer and instead takes the case to trial. But they won't get any sympathy from me when they are clearly in the wrong (breaking the law) lose. Read up on civil disobedience, it may be the right thing to do, but it is still breaking the law, and punishable.
I was pretty sure that RC controls default to controlling where the camera is looking, but since I nearly always have to go in and reverse controls I may have confused it with all the other games. Why the change took place in 95 I have no idea, but personally I think it was a mistake. The camera controls should be similar to flight controls or controlling the characters head bad grabbing the hair on the scruff of their neck. Pull up to look down, pull down to look up etc.
By what possible measurement? Activision's annual revenue is 1.4 Billion (USD) while EA's just under 3 which is over twice that of Activision. Vivendi is are 1.2 Billion, leaving the new combined company to still be nearly.5 Billion behind EA.
On a consumer experience level the both suck, but EA at least try's while Activision doesn't seem to give rats as as long as they are getting their fat check at the end of the year. Personally I think I have purchased my last Blizzard game since there is no way Activision is getting another dime of my money.
You own link proves you wrong if you read it completely and understand how they are generating their numbers. The numbers used to rank sales is based on currency value. Currency value is only one way of measuring the concept of busiest shopping day. Others would be number of shoppers and number of units sold. Because black Friday tends to include numerous specials the average cost of products is lower on that day than others. Because people are looking to take advantage of these deals they do more "shopping" and with less relative purchasing.
Either way, that is insignificant to the original argument that black Friday is an anomaly and sales form that week should not be considered indicative of any trend.
Yes, you can reverse the camera controls (both axis) in the full release, much like any other sane game. Reversing the camera is usually the first thing I do (unless the game got it right the first time which is rare)
I knew my fiancee was...too good to be true You'll find out how true that statement is once you are actually married (probably in the middle of your second year).
The ability to limit myself might actually be the one feature of the XBox that would convince me to buy one. I swear I hate looking at the clock and realizing I should put the controller down since I have to be up for work in a couple hours.
Yeah that will work. A Company with 1 billion (and falling) in annual revenue attempting to threaten a company with just shy of 60 billion (and rising) in annual revenue. I'm sure that the company that has been around since 1902 and is in direct competition with the worlds largest retailer is going to bow to the threats and demands of the 5 year old video game producer who is already on many peoples shit list for allow explicit content to remain hidden in there products. If Take Two has any brains at all they will let this slide, hope that sales from other retailers make up the difference, and then stop pumping money into a by gone franchise that never should have been (Manhunt was a interesting concept not a franchise in the making).
what exactly are they playing? I don't know what they are playing in Japan but there are a number of good or high profile games out. I happen to be enjoying the New R&C and have Folklore lined up (I have only owned my PS3 for a week). Plus there are lots of people who enjoy Resistance, Heavenly Sword and even some that like Lair. So there are games, just a little limited for now.
As for the Holiday seasons PS3 does have Uncharted as an exclusive and plenty of non-exclusives that will lore the PS2 owners to finally upgrade.
Both of these run OSX indistinguishably from Apple hardware, except for the one odd quirk that sound inputs and outputs are disabled. You contradict yourself in a single sentence. Either it is indistinguishable or it is not. I would be pretty upset if my OS did not support my sound device, or worse a video device. Luckily because I run OS X on a Mac I know that they will always be compatible.
Both Linux and windows have shown that adding hardware support in no way decreases the stability or quality of an OS, assuming the drivers are written well. This is the point. It's much easier to create well written drivers when you can focus on a small set of hardware components to support. And using Windows or Linux on anything but a very small fraction of hardware, as an example of stability is a complete joke.
I don't want Apple to have to waste resources on supporting your sound device, or or video device or what have you (as you mentioned you have some issues with both of those). You can also see that upgrades could easily cause things to break or take considerably longer if a larger set of hardware was support (wireless does not work on generic hardware with Leopard and Windows release cycle is slow compared to OSX, just as a couple examples).
Instead, they're proving that the Cell processor is better suited to its original intent of supercomputing-on-a-chip Are you saying that super computers can't play games? Curious since games are nothing more than physics simulations, expert systems and visualization and all truly high-end physics simulations, expert systems (even AI) and visualizations are done on supercomputers. If you take the physics, AI and visualization out of the game then pretty much all games would run just fine on 20 year old consoles and the Cell processor would handle it on a single SPE. I just don't see how showing the processing power of the Cell some how detracts from it's ability to play top notch games.
there are some significant differences between what Apple wants and what Apple's customers want. Not sure actually know any apple customers, or in this case Mac customers specifically. Any Mac user with any knowledge at all knows that they one of the main reasons that OS X is as stable as it is happens to be because it runs on a very controlled set of hardware. Apple customers, those that pay money to apple for the right to use their products as intended, actually prefer the hardware lock-in because of what they gain from it.
I would love to be able to play with OS X on a couple non-Mac machines I own, but I would never ever request that Apple open the OS for operation on generic hardware.
GH3: Coming out for the most popular current console True GH3 is coming out for PS2. But without the downloadable content option I'm betting it forces a number of hold outs to finally upgrade.
However great Harmonix is, they completely missed the boat there What harmonix is doing is not alienating there current fans (all PS2 and/or XBox 360 owners) and maintaining focus on just a couple consoles rather than all three. There will probably be a Wii version eventually but it's always better to appeal to your existing fan base first.
Personally I'm getting both (and had to finally make the jump to the current gen systems to do it).
I know it hurts to accept that you've basically wasted 600 bucks. Screw it. I don't need to defend Sony, and I certainly don't need to be explaining the detailed workings of market economics in a web forum. We will see were everything is in the Next 5 years. My bet is that there will be a lot of happy 360, Wii and PS3 owners and all three manufactures will be announcing their next entry into the game console market (With the possible exception of Microsoft, who is showing signs that they are considering pulling out of the market, but I certainly would not make that prediction just yet). At around 50 million total units we may start to see a clear winner emerge but the one things that looks pretty certain is that it won't be a total blow out like the last 2 generations, and some people seem to think this is good for the market. I only hope that it is.
I will end up chosing the console that is bound to have the games I like, but so far I am in with the majority of the gaming market and have not seen a reason to get a current generation system (therefor I have not wasted $600 or even $1)
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This is both old news and a very week exploit. The fact that firefox is built with XUL which it can also render has made it vulnerable to these exploits since day one. There are already examples out there of "Web Sites" (XUL applications) that can cause a pop up window that look and work just like a new browser windows except that they can filter the content entered into any field in the browser or other site to any where else fro tracking and stealing of information.
When Nintendo said they would be ready for it, what they meant was they would be ready to profit. what is happening is that Nintendo isn't hardly shipping any units, just enough to make it appear that the product is available in stores. Instead they are setting up hundreds of Ebay accounts and selling the hardware directly to the customers through auction. This allows them to charge the same price as Sony and MS with it appearing like they have the cheaper console, while making 4 times the profit they would have with their MSRP.
If you don't beleive me then check out this stack of Wii's which is more than any Best Buy has received all year.
Ok there is my conspiracy theory of they day. Enjoy.
Freedom of information is a great thing as long as it is a true freedom of information which with laws like this it is not. Why is it that past acts of criminals are free to post for public viewing yet the same people that want that information are the first to jump and say that tapping their phone or filming them without permission is ethically wrong. Lets just make all conversations and actions a matter of public record. Imagine how much better our decisions would be with this information. If we could just go home, look up someones name and determine whether we agree with their history or not it would really free us from having to actually get to know people. You know what lets go all the way and make all thoughts a matter or public record. What a wonderfully safe world we would live in then.
I don't think you fully understand evolution.
First you are implying that all evolution must be beneficial, or worse yet obviously beneficial. Evolution is change, not benefit. Read up on the fallacy of devolution if you want to understand that more. Second those same things you are say are not evolution are by definition evolution. There is no longer a reason for mutation to occur which will reduce congenital defects so why would an evolutionary chain waste generation of solving the issue. So instead mutations can occur in areas of genetics which are actually important to modern mankind.
...mainstreamish things like Neubauten. I'm not sure what mainstreamish means but I'm guessing that if the band is not available in the local outlet malls then it's not mainstream. In other words Neubauten is not mainstreamish. But what is even worse is you miss conception that purchases of Neubauten recordings does not support the RIAA. Neubauten is signed to Mute Records which is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMI with is one of the largest suppliers of funds to the RIAA (Though this has dropped recently it has certainly not dropped to nothing). Even if you purchased a recording directly from members of the band without a single dime of it going to the bands record label (which is probably a violation of their contract) you are still supporting the label by supporting their bands.I love the idea of the boycott as a means of consumer control, but trying to boycott the Big Four is just short of saying that you will no longer be listening to music, record or otherwise (and this is coming from some one with an extensive collections of independent unsigned musics and a promoter of such musicians).
It it was simple to pay and didn't have a serious impact on the convicted then it wouldn't really be much of a fine now would it.
Obviously the jury in the "fair" trial that she received disagrees with you. Personally I think getting away with just a fine, after wasting the courts and peoples time, should be considered a gift. But my point was that fighting when you are clearly in the wrong is not usually the best approach. She could have gotten away with the crime and not been labeled as guilty for a few dollars (which she have been easy for her to come by since she owned a computer and had time to rip and share mp3s). The best you can hope for once it goes to court is a Not Guilty verdict which is considerably different than being innocent.
Isn't it only a fair trial if you win. I don't think I have ever heard of someone losing a trial and then stating, "that was a really fair trial and I got what I deserved." I applaud anyone that turns down a settlement offer and instead takes the case to trial. But they won't get any sympathy from me when they are clearly in the wrong (breaking the law) lose. Read up on civil disobedience, it may be the right thing to do, but it is still breaking the law, and punishable.
I was pretty sure that RC controls default to controlling where the camera is looking, but since I nearly always have to go in and reverse controls I may have confused it with all the other games. Why the change took place in 95 I have no idea, but personally I think it was a mistake. The camera controls should be similar to flight controls or controlling the characters head bad grabbing the hair on the scruff of their neck. Pull up to look down, pull down to look up etc.
By what possible measurement? Activision's annual revenue is 1.4 Billion (USD) while EA's just under 3 which is over twice that of Activision. Vivendi is are 1.2 Billion, leaving the new combined company to still be nearly .5 Billion behind EA.
On a consumer experience level the both suck, but EA at least try's while Activision doesn't seem to give rats as as long as they are getting their fat check at the end of the year. Personally I think I have purchased my last Blizzard game since there is no way Activision is getting another dime of my money.
You own link proves you wrong if you read it completely and understand how they are generating their numbers. The numbers used to rank sales is based on currency value. Currency value is only one way of measuring the concept of busiest shopping day. Others would be number of shoppers and number of units sold. Because black Friday tends to include numerous specials the average cost of products is lower on that day than others. Because people are looking to take advantage of these deals they do more "shopping" and with less relative purchasing.
Either way, that is insignificant to the original argument that black Friday is an anomaly and sales form that week should not be considered indicative of any trend.
Yes, you can reverse the camera controls (both axis) in the full release, much like any other sane game. Reversing the camera is usually the first thing I do (unless the game got it right the first time which is rare)
The ability to limit myself might actually be the one feature of the XBox that would convince me to buy one. I swear I hate looking at the clock and realizing I should put the controller down since I have to be up for work in a couple hours.
Video Games or Sex with someone you can stomach looking at, pick one.
Yeah that will work. A Company with 1 billion (and falling) in annual revenue attempting to threaten a company with just shy of 60 billion (and rising) in annual revenue. I'm sure that the company that has been around since 1902 and is in direct competition with the worlds largest retailer is going to bow to the threats and demands of the 5 year old video game producer who is already on many peoples shit list for allow explicit content to remain hidden in there products. If Take Two has any brains at all they will let this slide, hope that sales from other retailers make up the difference, and then stop pumping money into a by gone franchise that never should have been (Manhunt was a interesting concept not a franchise in the making).
As for the Holiday seasons PS3 does have Uncharted as an exclusive and plenty of non-exclusives that will lore the PS2 owners to finally upgrade.
I don't want Apple to have to waste resources on supporting your sound device, or or video device or what have you (as you mentioned you have some issues with both of those). You can also see that upgrades could easily cause things to break or take considerably longer if a larger set of hardware was support (wireless does not work on generic hardware with Leopard and Windows release cycle is slow compared to OSX, just as a couple examples).
I would love to be able to play with OS X on a couple non-Mac machines I own, but I would never ever request that Apple open the OS for operation on generic hardware.
Personally I'm getting both (and had to finally make the jump to the current gen systems to do it).
I will end up chosing the console that is bound to have the games I like, but so far I am in with the majority of the gaming market and have not seen a reason to get a current generation system (therefor I have not wasted $600 or even $1)