There's a bunch of useful account security tools that can be used for this. I put people in to groups on Facebook that I can then limit from being able to see posts I make. So I can provide them with the placebo of having added them, but they won't see 90% of the posts I make, so I have no interaction.
Nice statistics. So you deliberately exclude Chernobyl and assess Fukushima knowingly way before any long-term effects could have set in.
Chernobyl cannot happen again; it was the result of an ancient design not built to any safety specifications. Further, it's forty years old. A series of stupid decisions lead to that disaster. It's like using Titanic as a reason we shouldn't build boats.
There's a very big difference between a simulator (Gran Turismo) and arcade-style games. Madden is about halfway in between, but not exactly known for quality.
Isn't this true of any industry?
If I buy a used couch instead of buying it from the manufacturer, don't they take the same "loss"?
It's amazing that now used games sales are being considered "loss" in the same manner as piracy.
The thing to keep in mind is that this malware going around is a trojan. The user has to enter a username and password to install the malware.
It can't propagate itself nor install itself automatically from a web site.
People are just blindly typing their password to anything asking. Interestingly, it claims to be an antivirus suite and uses SEO to show up on searches for Mac antiviruses per Arstechnica (http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/05/fake-mac-defender-antivirus-app-scams-users-for-money-cc-numbers.ars), so ironically, the people getting infected are people who think they need virus protection on a Mac.
Expect to hear people continuing to proclaim this as the beginning of Mac viruses, however.
Stupid. I've been in this situation; one of the people with me was a doctor, and another person with me was having some kind of seizure or attack. The doctor made the 9/11 phone call and stated all the details very calmly and distinctly while everyone else was trying not to flip out.
Under this kind of system, he'd have received a low priority.
T-Mobile customer who switched to AT&T when I got my iPhone 4 here...I used the original EDGE iPhone for three years on T-Mobile, never had a dropped call. T-Mobile had much, much better pricing and very good support. This makes me sad.:(
The cause of this has been discovered already; it's a software bug. iOS 4.3 has a new JavaScript engine. Websites launched from the home screen seem to be reverting to and using the old JavaScript engine from iOS 4.2.
The article makes it sound like a conspiracy. I'm sure it'll be patched soon; I can think of no obvious reason to do this but give the same apps full speed if bookmarked within the web browser.
It's a good thing...Other companies like HP and Sony no longer include restore disks, so when a Windows user gets a virus that messes some system files up, they have to pay ridiculous amounts to order restore disks if they didn't remember to do it themselves.
"DRM probably has driven some key aspects of the design of iPod. For example, the fact that the iPod doesn't present its contents as a file system, like many other MP3 players do, is probably due to DRM. The fact that it's hard to get music off the device is also driven by DRM concerns. Likewise, the fact that the iPod does not support syncing to multiple machines well is probably influenced by DRM. Lack of iTunes support for third party MP3 players, and lack of third party support for iPod is another consequence."
My iPod syncs music off one PC, and movies and photos off my Mac, and I can manually drag and drop music and photos and videos from any of my computers.
"I'll pay too much for a DRM encumbered media player and pay $1 a piece for a collection of bits to play in it shortly after monkeys come flying out of my anus and not one moment before, thanks..."
Where does this stuff come from? DRM encumbered? What?
If you don't buy off iTunes, you have no music with a DRM lock. The iPod plays raw MP3 files, you know.
Further, I've never got the DRM complaints about iTunes, either. I hate DRM too- mainly because I feel it makes things more complicated and frustrating, and criminalizes legitamite users (for example, I want to rip a DVD, but that DVD has copy protection. It is now illegal to make a backup, not because the backup is illegal, but because the act of breaking the copy protection to make that legal backup is illegal).
iTunes music does neither. The ONLY thing that Apple's DRM on purchased music does is prevent me from transferring songs to all my friends via the internet, which is illegal anyway. I can transfer them between all my computers with no hassle, can put them on my iPod, can BURN THEM TO A CD as if they had no DRM with no trouble, etc. I don't even bother keeping track of which sings have DRM and which don't anymore because it truly DOESN'T interfere with what I do with it.
However- iTunes MOVIES are different. The iTunes video DRM prevents you from burning it to a DVD, and leaves the video playable only on an iPod or computer. This is DRM that is intrusive and makes it difficult for me to do what I want- which is why I have not purchased any iTunes TV Shows or Movies yet.
Anyway, back to my original point- people, QUIT WHINING ABOUT iPod DRM, you don't have to use it at all if you don't want to! I'm starting to think that people think you HAVE to use iTunes or something.
"The closer you are to the bar, the higher the sensitivity."
Opposite, actually. Getting too close (within a couple feet) of the TV tends to make it hard for it to get exactly where you are pointing. I tried putting the Wiimote close to the TV to see if it helped me aim when I was playing it at E3, and when it made the pointer go nuts the representative told me that it loses sensitivity when you get that close and to stand back.
Haven't forgot it; while a lot of rumor sites and analysts believe a "real" video iPod is on the way, nobody believes it will be introduced at this event; in fact, AppleInsider (who is almost always right) has stated they have confirmation that there will be updated 5G iPods at the event- with higher capacities at the same price, nothing else. I'm guessing 40 GB instead of 30 GB.
I don't think a 640x480 iPod will come until next year, or the end of this year.
At the moment, Apple is only selling TV shows at 320x240. Great for iPods, but if I'm buying a movie, I demand DVD resolution minimum. Give me 480p, Apple.
I imagine this will cause some difficulties- at the moment, iTunes can simply transfer TV shows on to iPods, but if you downloaded a 480p movie, the iPod wouldn't be able to play it- imagine iTunes having to convert multiple 2-hour video files from 480p to 320x240 every time it syncs with the PC...that could take quite a while, especially on older machines.
Hopefully they'll let you choose your resolution on download, or iTunes will resize the videos if you have an iPod.
The real difficult part is feedback. You swing a sword from right to left. Halfway through the swing, on screen, your opponent puts out his sword and blocks the attack. Your hand keeps going. Now your hand is all the way on the left, but on the screen, your sword is in the middle of the screen, confusing the heck out of the player.
Regardless, the reason the Wii version of Zelda didn't have real-time sword tracking is because it was an up-port of the GameCube version. Nintendo simply mapped all the GameCube buttons onto the Wii-mote, and then let you use the pointer for aiming arrows (which worked spectacularly well when I tried it at E3, I was pulling off headshots within ten seconds of pulling out the bow and arrow).
Oh duh. Should have referenced Rogue Squadron 2, not Metroid Prime. My bad. Regardless, every game that came out in the first year quickly dropped to $5-$10.
"Hu? In the past maybe, I'm pretty sure Nintendo has been pushing online heavily with its newest DS games and has talked extensivly about Wii Online."
Except they haven't announced ONE online first-party launch title. They've talked about online support, but they've only announced ONE online game (Smash Bros Brawl), and that's scheduled for 2007 and according to the developer's blog they haven't even started working on the online features yet. Did you read the article I linked to?...oh right, forgot where I was for a second.
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Do you know what a settlement is?
There's a bunch of useful account security tools that can be used for this. I put people in to groups on Facebook that I can then limit from being able to see posts I make. So I can provide them with the placebo of having added them, but they won't see 90% of the posts I make, so I have no interaction.
Nice statistics. So you deliberately exclude Chernobyl and assess Fukushima knowingly way before any long-term effects could have set in.
Chernobyl cannot happen again; it was the result of an ancient design not built to any safety specifications. Further, it's forty years old. A series of stupid decisions lead to that disaster. It's like using Titanic as a reason we shouldn't build boats.
There's a very big difference between a simulator (Gran Turismo) and arcade-style games. Madden is about halfway in between, but not exactly known for quality.
Isn't this true of any industry? If I buy a used couch instead of buying it from the manufacturer, don't they take the same "loss"? It's amazing that now used games sales are being considered "loss" in the same manner as piracy.
The thing to keep in mind is that this malware going around is a trojan. The user has to enter a username and password to install the malware. It can't propagate itself nor install itself automatically from a web site. People are just blindly typing their password to anything asking. Interestingly, it claims to be an antivirus suite and uses SEO to show up on searches for Mac antiviruses per Arstechnica (http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/05/fake-mac-defender-antivirus-app-scams-users-for-money-cc-numbers.ars), so ironically, the people getting infected are people who think they need virus protection on a Mac. Expect to hear people continuing to proclaim this as the beginning of Mac viruses, however.
If Anonymous had stolen the data, it would be on TPB/Bittorrent right now. Remember HBGary?
The easier to detect, the harder it is for ISP's to keep such practices out of the spotlight.
Stupid. I've been in this situation; one of the people with me was a doctor, and another person with me was having some kind of seizure or attack. The doctor made the 9/11 phone call and stated all the details very calmly and distinctly while everyone else was trying not to flip out. Under this kind of system, he'd have received a low priority.
Oh, those guys? AT&T bought them too.
T-Mobile customer who switched to AT&T when I got my iPhone 4 here...I used the original EDGE iPhone for three years on T-Mobile, never had a dropped call. T-Mobile had much, much better pricing and very good support. This makes me sad. :(
The cause of this has been discovered already; it's a software bug. iOS 4.3 has a new JavaScript engine. Websites launched from the home screen seem to be reverting to and using the old JavaScript engine from iOS 4.2. The article makes it sound like a conspiracy. I'm sure it'll be patched soon; I can think of no obvious reason to do this but give the same apps full speed if bookmarked within the web browser.
It's a good thing...Other companies like HP and Sony no longer include restore disks, so when a Windows user gets a virus that messes some system files up, they have to pay ridiculous amounts to order restore disks if they didn't remember to do it themselves.
FF7/FF8 were on the Playstation because despite the cruddy graphics, the CD's could hold CGI cutscenes, while the N64's cartridges couldn't.
MGS4 is a PS3 game, not a PS2 game. There is no way it would run on a GameCube and very unlikely that it would run well on the Wii.
It might make it to 360 though, and the Wii might get its own MGS game someday.
"DRM probably has driven some key aspects of the design of iPod. For example, the fact that the iPod doesn't present its contents as a file system, like many other MP3 players do, is probably due to DRM. The fact that it's hard to get music off the device is also driven by DRM concerns. Likewise, the fact that the iPod does not support syncing to multiple machines well is probably influenced by DRM. Lack of iTunes support for third party MP3 players, and lack of third party support for iPod is another consequence."
My iPod syncs music off one PC, and movies and photos off my Mac, and I can manually drag and drop music and photos and videos from any of my computers.
"I'll pay too much for a DRM encumbered media player and pay $1 a piece for a collection of bits to play in it shortly after monkeys come flying out of my anus and not one moment before, thanks..."
Where does this stuff come from? DRM encumbered? What?
If you don't buy off iTunes, you have no music with a DRM lock. The iPod plays raw MP3 files, you know.
Further, I've never got the DRM complaints about iTunes, either. I hate DRM too- mainly because I feel it makes things more complicated and frustrating, and criminalizes legitamite users (for example, I want to rip a DVD, but that DVD has copy protection. It is now illegal to make a backup, not because the backup is illegal, but because the act of breaking the copy protection to make that legal backup is illegal).
iTunes music does neither. The ONLY thing that Apple's DRM on purchased music does is prevent me from transferring songs to all my friends via the internet, which is illegal anyway. I can transfer them between all my computers with no hassle, can put them on my iPod, can BURN THEM TO A CD as if they had no DRM with no trouble, etc. I don't even bother keeping track of which sings have DRM and which don't anymore because it truly DOESN'T interfere with what I do with it.
However- iTunes MOVIES are different. The iTunes video DRM prevents you from burning it to a DVD, and leaves the video playable only on an iPod or computer. This is DRM that is intrusive and makes it difficult for me to do what I want- which is why I have not purchased any iTunes TV Shows or Movies yet.
Anyway, back to my original point- people, QUIT WHINING ABOUT iPod DRM, you don't have to use it at all if you don't want to! I'm starting to think that people think you HAVE to use iTunes or something.
"The closer you are to the bar, the higher the sensitivity."
Opposite, actually. Getting too close (within a couple feet) of the TV tends to make it hard for it to get exactly where you are pointing. I tried putting the Wiimote close to the TV to see if it helped me aim when I was playing it at E3, and when it made the pointer go nuts the representative told me that it loses sensitivity when you get that close and to stand back.
I could aim better from a distance.
Haven't forgot it; while a lot of rumor sites and analysts believe a "real" video iPod is on the way, nobody believes it will be introduced at this event; in fact, AppleInsider (who is almost always right) has stated they have confirmation that there will be updated 5G iPods at the event- with higher capacities at the same price, nothing else. I'm guessing 40 GB instead of 30 GB.
I don't think a 640x480 iPod will come until next year, or the end of this year.
At the moment, Apple is only selling TV shows at 320x240. Great for iPods, but if I'm buying a movie, I demand DVD resolution minimum. Give me 480p, Apple.
I imagine this will cause some difficulties- at the moment, iTunes can simply transfer TV shows on to iPods, but if you downloaded a 480p movie, the iPod wouldn't be able to play it- imagine iTunes having to convert multiple 2-hour video files from 480p to 320x240 every time it syncs with the PC...that could take quite a while, especially on older machines.
Hopefully they'll let you choose your resolution on download, or iTunes will resize the videos if you have an iPod.
...that Microsoft is going to have to release a patch to the patch?
The real difficult part is feedback. You swing a sword from right to left. Halfway through the swing, on screen, your opponent puts out his sword and blocks the attack. Your hand keeps going. Now your hand is all the way on the left, but on the screen, your sword is in the middle of the screen, confusing the heck out of the player.
Regardless, the reason the Wii version of Zelda didn't have real-time sword tracking is because it was an up-port of the GameCube version. Nintendo simply mapped all the GameCube buttons onto the Wii-mote, and then let you use the pointer for aiming arrows (which worked spectacularly well when I tried it at E3, I was pulling off headshots within ten seconds of pulling out the bow and arrow).
Coming from a paying customer using a Dish Network DVR, what is going to happen now? Will my DVR simply be disabled and my money kept?
Wonder if there's a way to keep my DVR from downloading updates...hmmm.
Hopefully they'll replace my DVR with a TiVo.
Oh duh. Should have referenced Rogue Squadron 2, not Metroid Prime. My bad. Regardless, every game that came out in the first year quickly dropped to $5-$10.
"Hu? In the past maybe, I'm pretty sure Nintendo has been pushing online heavily with its newest DS games and has talked extensivly about Wii Online."
...oh right, forgot where I was for a second.
Except they haven't announced ONE online first-party launch title. They've talked about online support, but they've only announced ONE online game (Smash Bros Brawl), and that's scheduled for 2007 and according to the developer's blog they haven't even started working on the online features yet. Did you read the article I linked to?