Is it just me or am I the only person in the world who wrests their wrist on the mousepad and moves the mouse with my fingers.
I often mouse the same as gp, with no wrist problems so far
When moving only with the fingers, observe your forearm muscles, how they contract. You won't be having wrist problems with that movement, because it's your elbow tendon you're killing.
I disagree with the author having the Google beta products in the list. Simply because a product doesn't change from beta to actual release for a while doesn't necessarily make it vaporware. Gmail has been implementing new features and improving ever since it was initially released as a 'beta'. I think I would file it under vaporware, if we kept reading slashdot posts about an upcoming mail service by Google only to never see anything. Also Google tends to use the term 'beta' quite loosely.
Some companies or people never uses a product unless it's an official release. For those companies, Google's products being forever in beta make them vaporware.
but is it theoretically possible for a malicious program to turn that backup CD of yours into a disc of nothing but 1s?
Actually, according to the yellow book standard (which extends the red book standards for CD/ROM), a 1 is represented not by a "pit" or a "bump", but by the passage from one to the other (the edge of the pit). Therefore, it would be much easier to burn a whole lotta 0's (by burning pits everywhere) than a whole lotta 1's (which would require a perfect alternance between pits and bumps).
All media is destroyable. There are shedders that can easily handle disk platters, CD-ROMs, DVDs, etc. The shedders are smaller versions of circuit board shedders that have been common to firms doing defense electronics since the 1950's.
I prefer the good ol' flamethrower. A single tool that can handle various format of media, be it small, big, circular, onboard, paper, etc.
Actually it is a good thing. Since they don't have their workers signed to a non compete clause they are free to work for another game company. Depending on how the clauses are worded at Ubisoft they would be fired but still unable to work for a competitor (or possibly even do their own game development) for a certain period of time.
Former Ubisoft-Montreal employee here. Their non-compete clause is only enforceable if you quit, not if they fire you or lay you off or however you call it. It's to prevent developers from willfully going to the competitor.
You should probably ask people for help in the right tone... and try not to say how bad ubuntu is in every other reply you make.
When people(who use ubuntu), are trying to help others in whatever way they can (for free), read posts like that with all the negativity, they won't really feel like helping.
The funniest thing is that the conversation ends when they all realize that the problem is a faulty hard drive. Flaming Ubuntu for hardware failure, that's rich.
The most common reason respondents reported having to change or abandon their research project was that the acquisition of the necessary technologies involved overly complex licensing negotiations.
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But... but... but...
I thought patents were supposed to *encourage* research and innovation, not *interfere* with it... Now I'm all confused...
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Why did you work hard at a particular interest? I mean at the core... You did it because at some very core point you really wanted to attract female attention. This is why I got into music and then later computers.
You mean you got into computers in order to attract women?!? What the hell were you thinking? One needs to get away from computers to get women.
Most of those booth babes don't care one bit about the geeky gamer that takes a picture with them. They really don't. And geeky gamers know that (at least I hope so).
When I get to my bus stop, I don't need to exit the game and save. Instead, I just push the power slider to "Hold" and the game stays right where it was until I go home that evening. And when I "Resume", it's instant on.
The DS, with its clamshell design, does the very same thing when you close the shell. It goes into instant sleep-mode. Some games even add a little extra: Mario says "Bye bye" when playing MarioDS, your puppy will bark with Nintendogs, etc.
I think Internet 2.0 will be out around the same time as IPv6 and Duke Nukem Forever. So, soon.
Oh, but the Internet2 is already out. They had the great idea of registering the trademark on Internet2 though, so it prevents any corporate jerk to use that as a marketing buzz word... that is, until said corporate jerk realizes Internet3 isn't registered...
California is not upstate New York. New York is able to import massive amounts of hydroelectric power from Quebec, if the need be.
Thing is, Quebec is also running out of excess power. There were even talks of building a coal plant last year... Plus, with the U.S. screwing Canada over lumber prices, Canada might just do the same by raising the prices of electricity exported to the US in the future. It's not like the US can import its power from Taiwan or China...
You imply that as you replace your computers the available 'authorizations' are reduced, but you can 'deauthorize' a computer at any time. So old replaced computers aren't counted against you.
That is, if the hardware doesn't fail before you have a chance to deauthorize. I used to use iTunes, I had it on my work computer, and on my home computer, so I authorized both. Then, one Windows-Update totally screwed my win install, it would hardly boot. Fortunately, I keep backups. Reformat, reinstall Windows, reinstall all my software, reinstall iTunes. iTunes won't play my purchased music, I need to authorize it again. I do so and it counts as a 3rd machine, even though it is the exact same hardware, just a fresh install.
A couple of weeks later, the hard-drive on my work computer totally crashes (loud noise and all). Obviously, the system won't boot in a stable enough fashion that I can start iTunes and deauthorize it. Buy a new hard drive, reinstall everything, reinstall iTunes, re-authorize iTunes. Machine count is up to 4. So now, I'm only allowed one more hard drive failure or failed Windows Update or what-have-you before I permanently lose access to all that legally purchased music.
Since then, I basically said "well screw that", I burned all that bought on CD's and re-ripped them to unDRM'ed MP3's, and went Linux. I'm not going back to iTunes.
Sadly it seems that at least in the browser sphere you and I are loosing. Feature creep seems to be a way of life for browser developers.
Not really. The whole point of Firefox is to have a very small general-purpose web browser, to which you can add whatever extension you wish.
When AllPeers releases its stuff, *your* Firefox won't instantly become bloated. It's an extension. If you don't want it, don't download/install it, and you won't have it. Firefox is very flexible in that way.
Just because there are more and more extensions available for Firefox doesn't mean it's becoming bloated. It means it's becoming more flexible. As long as you have the option of not installing all of them, I don't see why extensions are a problem.
It's possible that Microsoft didn't expect quite as much of a demand as they have seen, but didn't want to admit it.
Maybe... but if Microsoft says they expect to sell 3 million hardware units in 90 days, then they should at least produce 3 million hardware units in about 60 days... They somehow seem to expect selling more units than they can make.
Cause, y'know, the immigration officer is so likely to believe that you're a refugee from the US. Even with the amount of civil liberties Americans are losing, they're not even close enough for it to be considered that they would be actively prosecuted upon their return (at least, not without them having broken laws equivalent to Canadian laws, which would then stop them from being able to enter in the first place).
Actually, since the war in Iraq, there has been a number of american soldiers who came here to Canada as refugees. Being opposed to the US invasion of Iraq, they deserted, and would now face martial court (with a possible death penalty sentence) if they were to go back to the US. Granted, most americans wouldn't be admitted as refugees, but since you still have death penalty over there, some people can claim their life is in danger should they go back.
"Republic" and "democracy" are not alternatives to one another. A country can be both or neither or either one but not the other.
But... when I play Civ3, it lets me be either a democracy or a republic, but not both...!
Seriously though, I know the difference, I just wonder how many people think democracy and republic are incompatible *because* of playing games like Civ3.
Having worked on the Beyond Good and Evil project at Ubisoft, I can tell you that the game was originally supposed to be a trilogy (which explains the pretty weird ending, leaving something for the sequel). What came out of development was a very good game (as the few who played it know), which has sometimes been refered to as "like Zelda, but not from Japan".
However, marketing for the game was awful, the game was barely announced, and very few people actually knew what the game was about. Therefore, the game didn't sell well *because* of bad marketing. Unfortunately, we all know how game companies know their stuff... following the BGE fiasco, the marketing dept just kept on going advertising Splinter Cell and the lead programmer from Beyond Good and Evil got demoted. Yep, you read it right: he got demoted for making a great game...
That killed the trilogy. When the first game of a serie doesn't sell well, Ubi doesn't invest in a sequel, no matter why the first didn't sell.
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not really "alphabet soup with a TLD suffix", uh?
My alphabet soup just showed me "home.arcor"... add.de at the end and you get alphabet soup with a TLD suffix
But then, I'm getting tired of seeing Google release tons of beta products and just spending time on releasing yet more beta products before taking the ones they already have and making them final releases.
A number of people I've spoken with have never heard of the Sony 'rootkit' case and had no idea that playing a recent Sony DRM-protected CD on a Windows PC could be dangerous to their computer system.
I dunno about the media where you are, but up here in Québec, the Sony DRM screwup made the evening news bulletin on more than one occasion on two of the most watched channels, even clearly stating that the music CD's installed spyware without your agreement. Although not everybody knows what a rootkit is, many people know what spyware is, so the choice of words was appropriate.
I love it that our media isn't sold (mostly) to the big corps. They even reported that the Xbox360 might have a heating problem that prevents some consoles from functionning. The Sony screwup is big enough a deal that the general public deserves to be informed.
Maybe the revolution will store your settings on a server somewhere? Your controller just has an ID number tied to our settings stored remotely?
That would totally suck... what if I want to bring my console to a friend's house who has no Internet connection? I don't think game designers should rely on an internet connection for the offline portion of games.
Tell me, honestly, how often does a Windows XP computer not running Roxio CD Creator crash?
"Reliable" software is not only software that doesn't crash, it's also software you can install and trust that your box will not get hacked in a matter of minutes. Sure, your WinXP box might not crash, but it could be turned into a zombie pretty fast if you didn't get third party software that serve no other purpose than to patch the OS (antivirus, firewall, anti-spyware, etc.)
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I often mouse the same as gp, with no wrist problems so far
When moving only with the fingers, observe your forearm muscles, how they contract. You won't be having wrist problems with that movement, because it's your elbow tendon you're killing.
Some companies or people never uses a product unless it's an official release. For those companies, Google's products being forever in beta make them vaporware.
Actually, according to the yellow book standard (which extends the red book standards for CD/ROM), a 1 is represented not by a "pit" or a "bump", but by the passage from one to the other (the edge of the pit). Therefore, it would be much easier to burn a whole lotta 0's (by burning pits everywhere) than a whole lotta 1's (which would require a perfect alternance between pits and bumps).
I prefer the good ol' flamethrower. A single tool that can handle various format of media, be it small, big, circular, onboard, paper, etc.
Former Ubisoft-Montreal employee here. Their non-compete clause is only enforceable if you quit, not if they fire you or lay you off or however you call it. It's to prevent developers from willfully going to the competitor.
You should probably ask people for help in the right tone ... and try not to say how bad ubuntu is in every other reply you make.
When people(who use ubuntu), are trying to help others in whatever way they can (for free), read posts like that with all the negativity, they won't really feel like helping.
The funniest thing is that the conversation ends when they all realize that the problem is a faulty hard drive. Flaming Ubuntu for hardware failure, that's rich.
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But... but... but...
I thought patents were supposed to *encourage* research and innovation, not *interfere* with it... Now I'm all confused...
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You mean you got into computers in order to attract women?!? What the hell were you thinking? One needs to get away from computers to get women.
Most of those booth babes don't care one bit about the geeky gamer that takes a picture with them. They really don't. And geeky gamers know that (at least I hope so).
The DS, with its clamshell design, does the very same thing when you close the shell. It goes into instant sleep-mode. Some games even add a little extra: Mario says "Bye bye" when playing MarioDS, your puppy will bark with Nintendogs, etc.
Oh, but the Internet2 is already out. They had the great idea of registering the trademark on Internet2 though, so it prevents any corporate jerk to use that as a marketing buzz word... that is, until said corporate jerk realizes Internet3 isn't registered...
Thing is, Quebec is also running out of excess power. There were even talks of building a coal plant last year... Plus, with the U.S. screwing Canada over lumber prices, Canada might just do the same by raising the prices of electricity exported to the US in the future. It's not like the US can import its power from Taiwan or China...
That is, if the hardware doesn't fail before you have a chance to deauthorize. I used to use iTunes, I had it on my work computer, and on my home computer, so I authorized both. Then, one Windows-Update totally screwed my win install, it would hardly boot. Fortunately, I keep backups. Reformat, reinstall Windows, reinstall all my software, reinstall iTunes. iTunes won't play my purchased music, I need to authorize it again. I do so and it counts as a 3rd machine, even though it is the exact same hardware, just a fresh install.
A couple of weeks later, the hard-drive on my work computer totally crashes (loud noise and all). Obviously, the system won't boot in a stable enough fashion that I can start iTunes and deauthorize it. Buy a new hard drive, reinstall everything, reinstall iTunes, re-authorize iTunes. Machine count is up to 4. So now, I'm only allowed one more hard drive failure or failed Windows Update or what-have-you before I permanently lose access to all that legally purchased music.
Since then, I basically said "well screw that", I burned all that bought on CD's and re-ripped them to unDRM'ed MP3's, and went Linux. I'm not going back to iTunes.
We've been trying to patch human beings for quite a while now, but they just don't seem to stand still. We'll get to it though.
How is that impressive? People aren't buying those, so Sony has to give them away now...
Not really. The whole point of Firefox is to have a very small general-purpose web browser, to which you can add whatever extension you wish.
When AllPeers releases its stuff, *your* Firefox won't instantly become bloated. It's an extension. If you don't want it, don't download/install it, and you won't have it. Firefox is very flexible in that way.
Just because there are more and more extensions available for Firefox doesn't mean it's becoming bloated. It means it's becoming more flexible. As long as you have the option of not installing all of them, I don't see why extensions are a problem.
Maybe... but if Microsoft says they expect to sell 3 million hardware units in 90 days, then they should at least produce 3 million hardware units in about 60 days... They somehow seem to expect selling more units than they can make.
Actually, since the war in Iraq, there has been a number of american soldiers who came here to Canada as refugees. Being opposed to the US invasion of Iraq, they deserted, and would now face martial court (with a possible death penalty sentence) if they were to go back to the US. Granted, most americans wouldn't be admitted as refugees, but since you still have death penalty over there, some people can claim their life is in danger should they go back.
But... when I play Civ3, it lets me be either a democracy or a republic, but not both...!
Seriously though, I know the difference, I just wonder how many people think democracy and republic are incompatible *because* of playing games like Civ3.
However, marketing for the game was awful, the game was barely announced, and very few people actually knew what the game was about. Therefore, the game didn't sell well *because* of bad marketing. Unfortunately, we all know how game companies know their stuff... following the BGE fiasco, the marketing dept just kept on going advertising Splinter Cell and the lead programmer from Beyond Good and Evil got demoted. Yep, you read it right: he got demoted for making a great game...
That killed the trilogy. When the first game of a serie doesn't sell well, Ubi doesn't invest in a sequel, no matter why the first didn't sell.
My alphabet soup just showed me "home.arcor"... add .de at the end and you get alphabet soup with a TLD suffix
Hey... it's beta...
But then, I'm getting tired of seeing Google release tons of beta products and just spending time on releasing yet more beta products before taking the ones they already have and making them final releases.
How about finishing one of them for a change?
I dunno about the media where you are, but up here in Québec, the Sony DRM screwup made the evening news bulletin on more than one occasion on two of the most watched channels, even clearly stating that the music CD's installed spyware without your agreement. Although not everybody knows what a rootkit is, many people know what spyware is, so the choice of words was appropriate.
I love it that our media isn't sold (mostly) to the big corps. They even reported that the Xbox360 might have a heating problem that prevents some consoles from functionning. The Sony screwup is big enough a deal that the general public deserves to be informed.
That would totally suck... what if I want to bring my console to a friend's house who has no Internet connection? I don't think game designers should rely on an internet connection for the offline portion of games.
"Reliable" software is not only software that doesn't crash, it's also software you can install and trust that your box will not get hacked in a matter of minutes. Sure, your WinXP box might not crash, but it could be turned into a zombie pretty fast if you didn't get third party software that serve no other purpose than to patch the OS (antivirus, firewall, anti-spyware, etc.)
They already sorta have that with the DS now. I've been playing Mario Kart DS on their WiFi thing for a while now. Pretty nice.