Rarely is it possible to describe a game anymore as simply "fun", and to some extent that's a credit to the growth of the industry.
I would hypothesize that this is because games are much much more complicated than once they were. Pong, Breakout, and Jungle Hunt were easy to say "hell yes, this is fun." You have a singluar objective (Frogger, Asteroids) and spend the entire time focusing on that goal - and is that fun? Therin lies your answer.
However, today's games are so much more complex. Games rarely have a singluar objective anymore - it's a series of puzzles to be solved while destroying an enemy while strategizing moves while battling/collaborating with other users online... There is no simplicity to be named fun here. Doom3 might be fun in its slaughter but is the gameplay and the plot solid?
The more complex something is, the much harder it becomes to apply such a blanket adjective.
but in order for it to be used properly, the Web site's address and other information about the user's computer, are sent to Microsoft for automatic evaluation.
Because... they couldn't build the code to check these URLs into the browser itself? Seems to me a blacklist of "phishing" URLs is a lot less useful than some quick, standard pattern matching.
Funny, because I haven't had any of these problems. Connecting to a Windows share was flawlessly easy, our HP color laser jet works great (networked,) email works perfectly with Entourage, and "other file systems" - well, I haven't tried that yet.
Although, since all our machines are new, all have Tiger, so perhaps these issues are patently easier in Tiger than previous releases?
Nonetheless, OS X does indeed have a learning curve. Most people have found it to take mere days to get comfortable with the machine, its software, and its functions. Although, we all do have Logitech mice.
Innocent until proven guilty. Although that statement is ignored just as often in the US as it is in England, laws that we pass try to at least give the impression that we respect it. So, here is how things go if this passes...
So let's compare. UK wants 90 days. US wants Guantanamo, military tribunals, zero access to lawyers for suspects, indeterminate holding periods without convictions of crimes...
UK wants encryption keys. US makes it illegal to break any encryption, unless it's the government, which can ignore such laws.
UK wants the power to close websites. US already does this.
UK wants clearer threat levels. US uses crayon colors.
UK wants a discussion on better wire-tap access. US has the Patriot Act.
UK says ""The evolving nature of the current threat from international terrorism demands that those charged with countering the threat have the tools they need to do the job." Ben Franklin has been forgotten in the US.
Doesn't appear that much different to me. (I live in and love the US, by the way.)
Agreed - I recently started a business and aside from servers which run Linux, all our desktop systems are OS X. It runs MS Office (and NeoOffice) and has that great "it just works" thing going for it. Everyone is happy with them.
Your assertions are not correct. Pentium M is a low performance, low power chip, almost exclusively used by the mobile market. It is performs far worse than Athlon64 not to memtion the FX line.
I would recommend reading the article that I linked to above - you'll find that in fact the M DOES clock better in benchmarks performed by Toms Hardware, and I can't think of anyone more reputable - unless you have your own benchmarks?
Actually, most of their bragging rights sit with the Pentium M, built on the PIII architecture. Toms has a great article about it. It beats the Athlon 64 FX and the PIV Extreme Edition. That ain't shabby.
Pesky regulations such as that dialling 911 works.
There is nothing wrong with the government having certain, life-saving regulations on VOIP. The point was that many of the FCC regulations on telecommunications are archaic, outdated, and just plain bad. Creating a subset of these for VOIP is not necessarily a bad thing, but lumping VOIP in as a telecommunications network from the jump is.
Besides the parent's thoughts, let's not forget that this supports the idea that VOIP is in fact not V. That is, with this ruling, anything that travels over broadband is information and not telecommunications, so it supports keeping federal regulations of VOIP off of VOIP providers.
I wouldn't count on the Supreme Court even understanding what you just said, let alone give you a favorable ruling...
I know this got a funny moderation, but it's damned insightful. This is a huge part of the ongoing plight of the software developer, manifested in software copyrights and almost unbelievable court rulings. We allow people with almost no understanding of newer technologies to make far-reaching decisions about those technologies. It's almost like allowing HMO lawyers to determine which drugs a person needs and which are cosmetic, without the input of medical doctors.
When you allow a person or group of people to make decisions of law for areas of understanding of which they are both uninformed and uneducated, they are more likely to be taken in by the misinformation campaigns of the larger corporations trying to stifle technological advances that threaten their outdated business models than they are to educate themselves adequately prior to sitting on a case.
Promotion? How hard will it really be to prove "promotion" now for any product that has any ability to support illegal transfers of copyrighted materials?
$80 is a lot... and the speeds aren't there totally. But progress usually starts with an overpriced product that initially appeals to business users and the overly-comfortable, economically speaking. When demand rises and price-point comes down, it will pick up. Saturation also has something to do with it - major metropolitans are nice, but the entire breadth of my cell phone service area is better. So _I_ won't be an early adapter, but it's nice to see things still moving forward.
And I say good! It's about time that the individual had an avenue to have his/her voice heard as loud as the corporation. For years bad support, overseas support, etc. has ensured unhappy customers, but on an individual level, so many were powerless to do anything about it.
Now a single complaint on the blogsphere can not only garner support through trackbacks of other complaining customers to create a virtual web of action, but a single voice can now have an adverse effect on sales for even the largest corporation.
Whats the point when clam is comming along so nicely?... although admittedly not quite ideal for real-time scanning of NFS/SMB shares
I think that's some of the point - clam may be "coming along" but it's not ideal yet. I find this phenomenon in a lot of OSS projects - that they are somewhat perpetually in the "coming along" stage. Although, so is Gmail (among other services) and beta release cycles are all the rage...
...and keep the tapes out of the sun and you had some great quality...
I remember when, as a child, I first discovered that tapes magically stuck to the small U magnet I had received as part of a science kit. "Mom, look!" I said as I picked up her new Moody Blues tape off of the coffee table with my magnet that cold Christmas morning. Needless to say, my mom received a replacement tape the next day:)
I've always hated the adverts for "coming soon" movies on DVDs. My DVD is meant to last years - the "coming soon" is relevant for a mere couple of months at best. guess what - Braveheart is no longer coming to theaters soon.
Unless, of course... Wallace rises from the dead and exacts his revenge with his army of zombies al la Army of Darkness:)
What's this fascination with dirty words in the code?
It's kinship. It's a way for programmers to be able to relate to one and other through shared frustrations. It also allows us to get more personal with the code, understand the thinking that went into it, and understand where and why certain features were programmed in certain ways.
And finally, it's about support. "Ok, I'm not the only one who is frustrated." Misery loves company, and sometimes it's nice to know that you're not alone.
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Rarely is it possible to describe a game anymore as simply "fun", and to some extent that's a credit to the growth of the industry.
I would hypothesize that this is because games are much much more complicated than once they were. Pong, Breakout, and Jungle Hunt were easy to say "hell yes, this is fun." You have a singluar objective (Frogger, Asteroids) and spend the entire time focusing on that goal - and is that fun? Therin lies your answer.
However, today's games are so much more complex. Games rarely have a singluar objective anymore - it's a series of puzzles to be solved while destroying an enemy while strategizing moves while battling/collaborating with other users online... There is no simplicity to be named fun here. Doom3 might be fun in its slaughter but is the gameplay and the plot solid?
The more complex something is, the much harder it becomes to apply such a blanket adjective.
but in order for it to be used properly, the Web site's address and other information about the user's computer, are sent to Microsoft for automatic evaluation.
Because... they couldn't build the code to check these URLs into the browser itself? Seems to me a blacklist of "phishing" URLs is a lot less useful than some quick, standard pattern matching.
Any other hints from people?
Don't buy a Dell either.
Will neither of these work?
5 9b16aec7df8c347/index.html
d ex.asp
http://www.mirrordot.com/stories/3865bd82103388b3
http://www.voices-for-change.com.nyud.net:8090/in
Funny, because I haven't had any of these problems. Connecting to a Windows share was flawlessly easy, our HP color laser jet works great (networked,) email works perfectly with Entourage, and "other file systems" - well, I haven't tried that yet.
Although, since all our machines are new, all have Tiger, so perhaps these issues are patently easier in Tiger than previous releases?
Nonetheless, OS X does indeed have a learning curve. Most people have found it to take mere days to get comfortable with the machine, its software, and its functions. Although, we all do have Logitech mice.
Innocent until proven guilty. Although that statement is ignored just as often in the US as it is in England, laws that we pass try to at least give the impression that we respect it. So, here is how things go if this passes...
So let's compare. UK wants 90 days. US wants Guantanamo, military tribunals, zero access to lawyers for suspects, indeterminate holding periods without convictions of crimes...
UK wants encryption keys. US makes it illegal to break any encryption, unless it's the government, which can ignore such laws.
UK wants the power to close websites. US already does this.
UK wants clearer threat levels. US uses crayon colors.
UK wants a discussion on better wire-tap access. US has the Patriot Act.
UK says ""The evolving nature of the current threat from international terrorism demands that those charged with countering the threat have the tools they need to do the job." Ben Franklin has been forgotten in the US.
Doesn't appear that much different to me. (I live in and love the US, by the way.)
Agreed - I recently started a business and aside from servers which run Linux, all our desktop systems are OS X. It runs MS Office (and NeoOffice) and has that great "it just works" thing going for it. Everyone is happy with them.
Your assertions are not correct. Pentium M is a low performance, low power chip, almost exclusively used by the mobile market. It is performs far worse than Athlon64 not to memtion the FX line.
I would recommend reading the article that I linked to above - you'll find that in fact the M DOES clock better in benchmarks performed by Toms Hardware, and I can't think of anyone more reputable - unless you have your own benchmarks?
Actually, most of their bragging rights sit with the Pentium M, built on the PIII architecture. Toms has a great article about it. It beats the Athlon 64 FX and the PIV Extreme Edition. That ain't shabby.
Pesky regulations such as that dialling 911 works.
There is nothing wrong with the government having certain, life-saving regulations on VOIP. The point was that many of the FCC regulations on telecommunications are archaic, outdated, and just plain bad. Creating a subset of these for VOIP is not necessarily a bad thing, but lumping VOIP in as a telecommunications network from the jump is.
Besides the parent's thoughts, let's not forget that this supports the idea that VOIP is in fact not V. That is, with this ruling, anything that travels over broadband is information and not telecommunications, so it supports keeping federal regulations of VOIP off of VOIP providers.
I wouldn't count on the Supreme Court even understanding what you just said, let alone give you a favorable ruling...
I know this got a funny moderation, but it's damned insightful. This is a huge part of the ongoing plight of the software developer, manifested in software copyrights and almost unbelievable court rulings. We allow people with almost no understanding of newer technologies to make far-reaching decisions about those technologies. It's almost like allowing HMO lawyers to determine which drugs a person needs and which are cosmetic, without the input of medical doctors.
When you allow a person or group of people to make decisions of law for areas of understanding of which they are both uninformed and uneducated, they are more likely to be taken in by the misinformation campaigns of the larger corporations trying to stifle technological advances that threaten their outdated business models than they are to educate themselves adequately prior to sitting on a case.
Promotion? How hard will it really be to prove "promotion" now for any product that has any ability to support illegal transfers of copyrighted materials?
Sad day.
$80 is a lot... and the speeds aren't there totally. But progress usually starts with an overpriced product that initially appeals to business users and the overly-comfortable, economically speaking. When demand rises and price-point comes down, it will pick up. Saturation also has something to do with it - major metropolitans are nice, but the entire breadth of my cell phone service area is better. So _I_ won't be an early adapter, but it's nice to see things still moving forward.
And I say good! It's about time that the individual had an avenue to have his/her voice heard as loud as the corporation. For years bad support, overseas support, etc. has ensured unhappy customers, but on an individual level, so many were powerless to do anything about it.
Now a single complaint on the blogsphere can not only garner support through trackbacks of other complaining customers to create a virtual web of action, but a single voice can now have an adverse effect on sales for even the largest corporation.
That's a pretty mean thing to say...
...about the author...
Whats the point when clam is comming along so nicely? ... although admittedly not quite ideal for real-time scanning of NFS/SMB shares
I think that's some of the point - clam may be "coming along" but it's not ideal yet. I find this phenomenon in a lot of OSS projects - that they are somewhat perpetually in the "coming along" stage. Although, so is Gmail (among other services) and beta release cycles are all the rage...
...and keep the tapes out of the sun and you had some great quality...
:)
I remember when, as a child, I first discovered that tapes magically stuck to the small U magnet I had received as part of a science kit. "Mom, look!" I said as I picked up her new Moody Blues tape off of the coffee table with my magnet that cold Christmas morning. Needless to say, my mom received a replacement tape the next day
I've always hated the adverts for "coming soon" movies on DVDs. My DVD is meant to last years - the "coming soon" is relevant for a mere couple of months at best. guess what - Braveheart is no longer coming to theaters soon.
:)
Unless, of course... Wallace rises from the dead and exacts his revenge with his army of zombies al la Army of Darkness
What's this fascination with dirty words in the code?
It's kinship. It's a way for programmers to be able to relate to one and other through shared frustrations. It also allows us to get more personal with the code, understand the thinking that went into it, and understand where and why certain features were programmed in certain ways.
And finally, it's about support. "Ok, I'm not the only one who is frustrated." Misery loves company, and sometimes it's nice to know that you're not alone.
Sorry - bad HTML - that was supposed to say when they tried to retire Windows 98 and were forced to extend it.
Can I assume they are talking about Win 2k Professional? Comparing XP Pro and Win 2k server is not a fair comparison...
Also, if MS stops supporting Win 2k - either edition - they are going to see the backlash they did when they tried to and were forced to extend support for that.
It's not the manifesto that landed him in jail.
why has noone modded this up? rossifer - the points would be yours had i them to give.
To keep it warm at night.