Although I have not as much as glanced at GamePro in years, I have many fond memories of their magazine. They were the go-to source for game reviews, tips, and moves during the snes/sega era. I still remember sitting in class, reading over the moves lists for the original Mortal Kombat.
With Apple pushing their cloud services, making Hotmail an officially supported mail provider could be one step toward a one-click mobileme signup button. One click to copy all of your existing emails, contacts, notes and information to the apple cloud. It would of course also set up a forwarder in Hotmail to your new apple email address while making an auto-reply to anyone sending it to the Hotmail address with the message "I've updated my email, please send all future emails to...."
I use it in the car regularly, and for a few fast features while I'm at the office. Using Siri to ask "where is my next appointment" or "where is my 4 o'clock meeting", will bring up a google map with directions from your current location to the address on the calendar for the specified appointment; faster than I would do manually. In the car I use it to read text messages that are sent to me, and to dictate replies, all via bluetooth.
Having it hooked up to a cars audio system gives it a whole new feeling, like it turns my car into Knight Rider. Instead of scrolling through hundreds of albums or thousands of songs to find the one I want to play (while driving, mind you) I simply tell Siri "play " or "play " or even "play random" for shuffled random playback.
I was one of the people who thought Siri was a huge gimmick when I first head about it, but it has actually been extremely useful and natural to use; especially in the car on my long commutes.
Why would any information on a blog be taken as 100% truth? Since you can edit photo meta-data there is no way to prove when a photo was taken, where it was taken, by whom it was taken, or what camera it was taken with; all of this data can be spoofed. Combine falsified photos with an elaborate story about your whereabouts and make a post on your blog through a vpn from your phone so it looks like you were at home when you posted it. If you're doing this on a regular basis then it wouldn't be hard to create a semi-automatic system to do most of this work for you.
Are we to believe that an investigative authority such as the FBI is going to simply take someones electronic word for it?
It's not bloat, it is just common features that they don't need. Is your car bloated because it comes with seat belts, air conditioning, and windshield wipers? SATA controllers and PCI-X slots are not "bloat", but they are features some companies don't need.
The biggest difference in your example is that there is a big difference between WATCHING a video game with visually imperceptible stuttering and PLAYING a video game with visually imperceptible stuttering. The latter leaves the gamer confused about why their controls are suddenly unresponsive.
If you read the blog post you would realize that there was no claim of sticking fingers inside vaginas.
Four times. Back right and left, and front right and left. In my vagina. Between my labia. I was shocked -- utterly unprepared for how she got the side of her hand up there. It was government-sanctioned sexual assault.
Right before that paragraph was this
Basically, I felt it important to make a spectacle of what they are doing to us, to make it uncomfortable for them to violate us and our rights, so I let the tears come. In fact, I sobbed my guts out. Loudly. Very loudly. The entire time the woman was searching me.
Sounds like a sensationalist blogger to me. I'm not saying she wasn't violated. But I don't give her much credibility for her over-dramatic scene
The ruling could also extend precedence for the legality of non-government entities doing this as well; Private Investigators and crazy ex girlfriends.
+1
I still have my 3G and I'm not interested in upgrading to a phone that is already a year old (iPhone 4). My next phone will probably be whichever the seemingly best new phone is around Q4 this year, whether it is an iPhone 5 or not.
Small, cheap, highly configurable.
It has 5 ports that you can configure as wans or link them together as lans. There is also a gigabit version available.
You can do everything on this as you would on a homebrewed freebsd solution, but with a nice gui or an optimized cli.
A visible cop car is probably more likely to postpone criminal activity rather than prevent it entirely. In that instance, it is better to catch the criminal in the act than for the criminal to simply wait until the cops are too far to notice.
b) If 90% of Apple's customers use iCloud for storing pirated music, that will be a problem with the business plan, unless you are right about some legal/license arrangement existing in advance.
iCloud doesn't store peoples pirated music. Apple's paid service allows you to scan your non-itunes music and then "purchase for free" the matching itunes music. This essentially allows people to download pirated music, then use the service to convert all of their pirated music into aac encoded itunes music. Since it is a monthly fee, this could be very enticing for someone who has hundreds or thousands of pirated albums, since they could obtain legitimate copies for pennies per album.
The issue being highlighted is that there are "known" pirated mp3 files that can be identified via watermark or hash. If Apple stores this information after the initial scan then it could be subpoenaed and then the RIAA has a list of thousands of user accounts who were in possession of known pirated mp3 files.
The obvious answer here is that if you don't pirate music then you don't have anything to worry about. The only problem with that is that it isn't always a clear cut case on if an mp3 was indeed pirated or obtained illegally. It is the RIAA who ultimately decides which files are legitimate and which ones are not so this could lead to a lot of false positives.
Life is about opportunity. Being born into opportunity puts you that many steps ahead of everyone else. If you have rich parents and you can spend your entire day playing video games then of course you are getting more training than someone who has to work 2 jobs and only has 1 hour a night to play. Of course skill and will power are factors as well, but there is a serious advantage to being born into opportunity.
Add in that some pirates are the "try before you buy" variety, or might later purchase the game out of guilt or because a game crack causes problems, or because they need a legit cd key to play multiplayer.
Rift, the most recent successful MMO, cost at least 50 million dollars for development. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/30130/Report_Trions_Debut_Game_Costs_Over_50M.php
If you haul gasoline for work then you need a tanker truck. If you like to 4x4 on the weekends then the Prius you use to go shopping isn't going to cut it. I suppose using one mediocre application for many different purposes is ok for some, but there is a reason mIRC is still around.
In many games today there is little to no advantage to running games in huge resolutions compared to smaller resolutions. These games scale everything up so that you have a near identical experience as lower resolutions (save for the extra crisp renderings). Many games force you to change your field of depth in order to take advantage of super wide screen, and end up causing massive distortions that actually inhibit your gaming ability. The only games that I have found to be more enjoyable on multiple monitors are flight simulators.
They should have prevented iPhone 3G from being able to update to 4.x since it essentially cripples the performance of the phone for a few miniscule features. If it was easy to downgrade to 3.x then it wouldn't be an issue at all because users would have a choice. Apple could have even put a few toggle switches in 4.x that disable the performance crippling features in order to get back some of that original awe when the phone was new.
My iPhone 3G's performance was beaten over the head with sledgehammer by 4.x. It can sometimes take anywhere between 30 seconds and 5 minutes to do something that used to take 8 seconds: get directions in the google maps program. There are constant pauses and freezes that last between 10 seconds and 1 minute while doing various mundane tasks such as sending a text message or jotting down something in the notes app.
I thoroughly enjoyed my phone for the first ~2 years I had it (I even stood in line on launch day). Apple's poor handling of the aging of this product is why I will not be buying any more in the future.
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Next you'll be telling me that I don't Google things on Bing?
Although I have not as much as glanced at GamePro in years, I have many fond memories of their magazine. They were the go-to source for game reviews, tips, and moves during the snes/sega era. I still remember sitting in class, reading over the moves lists for the original Mortal Kombat.
Many people seem confused by your use of HDLC to decribe a form of DRM over HDMI.
I think you meant HDCP
With Apple pushing their cloud services, making Hotmail an officially supported mail provider could be one step toward a one-click mobileme signup button. One click to copy all of your existing emails, contacts, notes and information to the apple cloud. It would of course also set up a forwarder in Hotmail to your new apple email address while making an auto-reply to anyone sending it to the Hotmail address with the message "I've updated my email, please send all future emails to ...."
I use it in the car regularly, and for a few fast features while I'm at the office. Using Siri to ask "where is my next appointment" or "where is my 4 o'clock meeting", will bring up a google map with directions from your current location to the address on the calendar for the specified appointment; faster than I would do manually. In the car I use it to read text messages that are sent to me, and to dictate replies, all via bluetooth.
Having it hooked up to a cars audio system gives it a whole new feeling, like it turns my car into Knight Rider. Instead of scrolling through hundreds of albums or thousands of songs to find the one I want to play (while driving, mind you) I simply tell Siri "play " or "play " or even "play random" for shuffled random playback.
I was one of the people who thought Siri was a huge gimmick when I first head about it, but it has actually been extremely useful and natural to use; especially in the car on my long commutes.
Why would any information on a blog be taken as 100% truth? Since you can edit photo meta-data there is no way to prove when a photo was taken, where it was taken, by whom it was taken, or what camera it was taken with; all of this data can be spoofed. Combine falsified photos with an elaborate story about your whereabouts and make a post on your blog through a vpn from your phone so it looks like you were at home when you posted it. If you're doing this on a regular basis then it wouldn't be hard to create a semi-automatic system to do most of this work for you.
Are we to believe that an investigative authority such as the FBI is going to simply take someones electronic word for it?
"hey mom, why are you using internet explorer again?"
It's not bloat, it is just common features that they don't need. Is your car bloated because it comes with seat belts, air conditioning, and windshield wipers? SATA controllers and PCI-X slots are not "bloat", but they are features some companies don't need.
The biggest difference in your example is that there is a big difference between WATCHING a video game with visually imperceptible stuttering and PLAYING a video game with visually imperceptible stuttering. The latter leaves the gamer confused about why their controls are suddenly unresponsive.
If I am going to be turning off or hibernating a computer then chances are I am walking away from it, and don't care how long it takes to shut down.
Four times. Back right and left, and front right and left. In my vagina. Between my labia. I was shocked -- utterly unprepared for how she got the side of her hand up there. It was government-sanctioned sexual assault.
Right before that paragraph was this
Basically, I felt it important to make a spectacle of what they are doing to us, to make it uncomfortable for them to violate us and our rights, so I let the tears come. In fact, I sobbed my guts out. Loudly. Very loudly. The entire time the woman was searching me.
Sounds like a sensationalist blogger to me. I'm not saying she wasn't violated. But I don't give her much credibility for her over-dramatic scene
The ruling could also extend precedence for the legality of non-government entities doing this as well; Private Investigators and crazy ex girlfriends.
...it can serve a basis for very specific biological weapons.
There I fixed that for you
Child Farmers!
+1
I still have my 3G and I'm not interested in upgrading to a phone that is already a year old (iPhone 4). My next phone will probably be whichever the seemingly best new phone is around Q4 this year, whether it is an iPhone 5 or not.
http://routerboard.com/RB750
Small, cheap, highly configurable.
It has 5 ports that you can configure as wans or link them together as lans. There is also a gigabit version available.
You can do everything on this as you would on a homebrewed freebsd solution, but with a nice gui or an optimized cli.
A visible cop car is probably more likely to postpone criminal activity rather than prevent it entirely. In that instance, it is better to catch the criminal in the act than for the criminal to simply wait until the cops are too far to notice.
b) If 90% of Apple's customers use iCloud for storing pirated music, that will be a problem with the business plan, unless you are right about some legal/license arrangement existing in advance.
iCloud doesn't store peoples pirated music. Apple's paid service allows you to scan your non-itunes music and then "purchase for free" the matching itunes music. This essentially allows people to download pirated music, then use the service to convert all of their pirated music into aac encoded itunes music. Since it is a monthly fee, this could be very enticing for someone who has hundreds or thousands of pirated albums, since they could obtain legitimate copies for pennies per album.
The issue being highlighted is that there are "known" pirated mp3 files that can be identified via watermark or hash. If Apple stores this information after the initial scan then it could be subpoenaed and then the RIAA has a list of thousands of user accounts who were in possession of known pirated mp3 files.
The obvious answer here is that if you don't pirate music then you don't have anything to worry about. The only problem with that is that it isn't always a clear cut case on if an mp3 was indeed pirated or obtained illegally. It is the RIAA who ultimately decides which files are legitimate and which ones are not so this could lead to a lot of false positives.
Life is about opportunity. Being born into opportunity puts you that many steps ahead of everyone else. If you have rich parents and you can spend your entire day playing video games then of course you are getting more training than someone who has to work 2 jobs and only has 1 hour a night to play. Of course skill and will power are factors as well, but there is a serious advantage to being born into opportunity.
This applies to almost everything in life.
You make it sound like the hardware for a phone and a tablet are all that different.
Add in that some pirates are the "try before you buy" variety, or might later purchase the game out of guilt or because a game crack causes problems, or because they need a legit cd key to play multiplayer.
Rift, the most recent successful MMO, cost at least 50 million dollars for development.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/30130/Report_Trions_Debut_Game_Costs_Over_50M.php
If you haul gasoline for work then you need a tanker truck. If you like to 4x4 on the weekends then the Prius you use to go shopping isn't going to cut it. I suppose using one mediocre application for many different purposes is ok for some, but there is a reason mIRC is still around.
In many games today there is little to no advantage to running games in huge resolutions compared to smaller resolutions. These games scale everything up so that you have a near identical experience as lower resolutions (save for the extra crisp renderings). Many games force you to change your field of depth in order to take advantage of super wide screen, and end up causing massive distortions that actually inhibit your gaming ability. The only games that I have found to be more enjoyable on multiple monitors are flight simulators.
They should have prevented iPhone 3G from being able to update to 4.x since it essentially cripples the performance of the phone for a few miniscule features. If it was easy to downgrade to 3.x then it wouldn't be an issue at all because users would have a choice. Apple could have even put a few toggle switches in 4.x that disable the performance crippling features in order to get back some of that original awe when the phone was new.
My iPhone 3G's performance was beaten over the head with sledgehammer by 4.x. It can sometimes take anywhere between 30 seconds and 5 minutes to do something that used to take 8 seconds: get directions in the google maps program. There are constant pauses and freezes that last between 10 seconds and 1 minute while doing various mundane tasks such as sending a text message or jotting down something in the notes app.
I thoroughly enjoyed my phone for the first ~2 years I had it (I even stood in line on launch day). Apple's poor handling of the aging of this product is why I will not be buying any more in the future.