What's so great about your post is that I can actually remember the music EXACTLY just by you writing out the do's, da's, and boom chick's.
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While I think those times were great, I have to disagree with you. Think about a lot of the advances we have made in programming technology such as better garbage collection, multithreading, object oriented systems, etc. A lot of these new technologies are great to use, but to manage at the level you speak of to squeeze every bit of speed/memory is simply crazy. A big part of why our stuff is getting higher and higher level is because it provides better abstraction so that programmer's can do more interesting things and focus on the problem and not so much the tiny little things. Yes, using a bitboard will help you increase performance in a chess-playing program, but the implementor can save a whole lot of his own effort and be more productive to implement better features if he focused his time elsewhere. I'm not saying you're completely wrong, I still think it's important for every programmer to understand machine architectures, etc., but these days, they can be more productive focusing on things other than trying to pack eight bits into seven.
I think after this incident, it's safe to say that Apple no longer knows its place. Apple is supposed to be about free-thinking and the consumer, but now I see it's just a whole lot of hype, marketing, and suckers. I've sent the following e-mail to Apple (I sent to Dowling) and you all should too:
As a "local geek" amongst my friends, they would come to me asking for advice on all-things computer-related, including purchases. I just thought that I should let you know that I, along with many other computer enthusiasts, will no longer support or recommend your products.
In the past, I have generally overlooked Apple's missteps (e.g. threatening RealNetworks over DRM that is not as close to consumer-friendly as you think), but suing ThinkSecret for publishing information is simply over the line. You claim that you don't want to discourage free-speech guarantees, but obviously you have yet to understand the meaning of free speech.
Apple used to be about free-thinking, good products, and the consumer. Now, I see Apple is just a whole lot of hype, marketing drivel, and treating the consumer like a sucker.
As some others have stated, this is actually the intended behavior being demonstrated (and I guess it's technically a "vulnerability").
Semantics aside, just how dumb does someone have to be to happen to be at a malicious site at the same time that s/he opens up some very trusted application over the Internet? I generally don't trust any pop-up from any site, and for super-important things, I always close the browser first, start fresh, then close the browser when I'm done.
You make a very good point that is important because unlike the BSD and GPL licences, the MPL actually cares about patents and with the current litigation, getting patent indemnification and other patent-related clauses into the license is as important as ever.
You post a story that is essentially an ad on Slashdot (c'mon editors, we know you aren't paying attention, but this is about as bad as the Piquepaille articles you've been letting through). The least you could do is to have the decency to offer a Linux client and even then, you are still whoring your game. I think I have nothing further to say. Leave.
Anyone consider that this whole thing is fake and that everyone has been trolled? There are no corroborating news sources mentioned in the summary, Google turns up nothing significant other than a bunch of other blogs linking to it.
Isn't it very possible, and, in my opinion, likely, that this LJ user just wants attention like all the other LJ lusers? She probably just made up the whole incident about the Secret Service paying her a visit and now she's getting the publicity she wanted. I can't imagine the Secret Service actually construing her post as a threat.
While I agree that everyone has the right to vote, I think it's not a matter that the ballots are too complicated. "Stupid people" are throwing away their opportunity to vote if they do not fill in the ballot correctly. There is NOTHING that is preventing a completely stupid person from filling in a ballot if he knows who he wants to vote for. If the voter cannot figure out the ballot, he can easily ask for assistance. If he has too much pride to do so, then that's his own fault for not getting in his vote. If a voter has vision problems, he can also ask for assistance. There are people at polling places volunteering to help! You can register absentee and have a friend help you fill it in! It's not like these people have no options, they just aren't exercising them.
It doesn't really help if you don't provide what site statistics those are from... if those are the figures for mozilla.org then I'd say IE is doing very well, but if that's something like msn.com then obviously it's a different story.
Ross Perot spent about $70 million of his personal wealth in his 1992 campaign. That amount of money is simply not available to smaller parties and whether you choose to believe it or not, money is a major factor in any election. Money sure as hell buys you votes when you get on TV and people see your face and hear sound bites.
In regards to having the debate with hundreds or thousands of candidates, the debate would be as you said between those who are "presidential contenders." That is not a thousand people or even hundreds of people. Being a presidential contender is someone who has a chance to garner enough electoral votes to win the election. Generally, there are about half a dozen such people.
Top Spin is easily the best tennis game out there
Crimson Skies is one of the best flight games for any console
KOTOR was a huge seller
and of course Ninja Gaiden - how sweet. That's just a few of the games I personally like. There are a bunch of other great X-Box exclusive titles such as DOAX, Project Gotham, Splinter Cell, Morrowind, Amped etc. that I don't really play but are also solid performers and excellent exclusive titles out for the XBox.
In short: NO, there isn't a shortage of great games for the XBox.
Hrm... that would actually make sense. They should release the song in sheet music. BSD license of course;) Then I could go ahead and give it a hip-hop beat so that it plays nice with my riced up Gentoo box.
When I submitted the story I chose "virii" b/c that is the accepted term for the plural noun of a computer virus. Obviously were I talking about viruses in the biological/physiological context I would have used "viruses"
A lot of people seem to have gotten their panties in a bunch about the right to face your accusser, etc. Please RTFAs. This isn't some system where the jury is in one room, the judge is some other location, the attornies in their office, etc. This is an electronic system that is put in place inside the courtroom to make proceedings faster. The fundamental system is unchanged.
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It was always those damn blue ramps that tricked me.
What's so great about your post is that I can actually remember the music EXACTLY just by you writing out the do's, da's, and boom chick's.
While I think those times were great, I have to disagree with you. Think about a lot of the advances we have made in programming technology such as better garbage collection, multithreading, object oriented systems, etc. A lot of these new technologies are great to use, but to manage at the level you speak of to squeeze every bit of speed/memory is simply crazy. A big part of why our stuff is getting higher and higher level is because it provides better abstraction so that programmer's can do more interesting things and focus on the problem and not so much the tiny little things. Yes, using a bitboard will help you increase performance in a chess-playing program, but the implementor can save a whole lot of his own effort and be more productive to implement better features if he focused his time elsewhere. I'm not saying you're completely wrong, I still think it's important for every programmer to understand machine architectures, etc., but these days, they can be more productive focusing on things other than trying to pack eight bits into seven.
As some others have stated, this is actually the intended behavior being demonstrated (and I guess it's technically a "vulnerability"). Semantics aside, just how dumb does someone have to be to happen to be at a malicious site at the same time that s/he opens up some very trusted application over the Internet? I generally don't trust any pop-up from any site, and for super-important things, I always close the browser first, start fresh, then close the browser when I'm done.
You make a very good point that is important because unlike the BSD and GPL licences, the MPL actually cares about patents and with the current litigation, getting patent indemnification and other patent-related clauses into the license is as important as ever.
agreed. it's getting annoying the number of engadget/gizmodo reposts we've been seeing recently
... the parts comprise the whole and the whole is composed of parts. There is never a reason to use "comprised of."
You post a story that is essentially an ad on Slashdot (c'mon editors, we know you aren't paying attention, but this is about as bad as the Piquepaille articles you've been letting through). The least you could do is to have the decency to offer a Linux client and even then, you are still whoring your game. I think I have nothing further to say. Leave.
Anyone consider that this whole thing is fake and that everyone has been trolled? There are no corroborating news sources mentioned in the summary, Google turns up nothing significant other than a bunch of other blogs linking to it.
Isn't it very possible, and, in my opinion, likely, that this LJ user just wants attention like all the other LJ lusers? She probably just made up the whole incident about the Secret Service paying her a visit and now she's getting the publicity she wanted. I can't imagine the Secret Service actually construing her post as a threat.
Anyone else thinking this?
While I agree that everyone has the right to vote, I think it's not a matter that the ballots are too complicated. "Stupid people" are throwing away their opportunity to vote if they do not fill in the ballot correctly. There is NOTHING that is preventing a completely stupid person from filling in a ballot if he knows who he wants to vote for. If the voter cannot figure out the ballot, he can easily ask for assistance. If he has too much pride to do so, then that's his own fault for not getting in his vote. If a voter has vision problems, he can also ask for assistance. There are people at polling places volunteering to help! You can register absentee and have a friend help you fill it in! It's not like these people have no options, they just aren't exercising them.
It doesn't really help if you don't provide what site statistics those are from... if those are the figures for mozilla.org then I'd say IE is doing very well, but if that's something like msn.com then obviously it's a different story.
Yes. My friend in Shanghai was hosting a dump site and got busted because a bunch of porn was placed onto his server. They are that far reaching.
I guess the only way Bush doesn't get re-elected is if we resurrect Favre's father and have him play one more inspirational game.
But, what happens when their formulation of the law goes wrong? Oops.
Everyone who's replied to this has pretty much already said what I probably would have said and if you check your history, what about Wallace in '68?
Ross Perot spent about $70 million of his personal wealth in his 1992 campaign. That amount of money is simply not available to smaller parties and whether you choose to believe it or not, money is a major factor in any election. Money sure as hell buys you votes when you get on TV and people see your face and hear sound bites.
In regards to having the debate with hundreds or thousands of candidates, the debate would be as you said between those who are "presidential contenders." That is not a thousand people or even hundreds of people. Being a presidential contender is someone who has a chance to garner enough electoral votes to win the election. Generally, there are about half a dozen such people.
It's funny you mention linux because I run that as my OS of choice and were it not for the Xbox, I wouldn't even have the chance to play these games.
In short: NO, there isn't a shortage of great games for the XBox.
Hrm... that would actually make sense. They should release the song in sheet music. BSD license of course ;) Then I could go ahead and give it a hip-hop beat so that it plays nice with my riced up Gentoo box.
When I submitted the story I chose "virii" b/c that is the accepted term for the plural noun of a computer virus. Obviously were I talking about viruses in the biological/physiological context I would have used "viruses"
...they still won't have anyone watching.
A lot of people seem to have gotten their panties in a bunch about the right to face your accusser, etc. Please RTFAs. This isn't some system where the jury is in one room, the judge is some other location, the attornies in their office, etc. This is an electronic system that is put in place inside the courtroom to make proceedings faster. The fundamental system is unchanged.
Here's a Coral Cache link to some guy who scanned a bunch of the screenshots.
Well, for now there are no more hurricanes, but maybe we can save this bomb up for the next big one and see if it's really true that a nuclear bomb won't affect a hurricane.