It seems that they are obviosly talking about the two legged, two armed kind. Hahaha, that is priceless to think that our there in someone's basement is a "sophisticated robot" capable of playing online poker. I think I'm going to start building one in my garage.
Playability (real word?) and Stroy line are what made FF7 absolutley ROCK. Well, charcter development was up there as well. Plus the way materia worked and your weapons. OK the game ROCKED overall. I hated RPGs and had no intention of picking up a PS until I saw that game. I was instantly converted.
I just hope this isn't like when a has-been rock star starts remaking classic songs that they have no business singing. I feel that if you are going to remake a song it should be better then the original (yes almost impossible to do, so don't try unless you can pull it off). The SAME rule should apply here. I hope square doesn't tarnish the name of what I consider to be the greatest RPG of all time.
The President has no control of those things. He's not a king, his only power is the "veto" and even that can be overruled by Congress. The President is the government's mascott. He's the PR guy, the face, the "hold his ass accountable".
What are the big things that you hear from Presidential Candidates during an election year?
"I will not raise taxes, we're going to lower taxes by making a smaller government, cut bueracraucy, etc." They sound good but the Predient has no more power to do those things then the lady who took my Driver's License photo at the DMV. Neither one of them have any say in what taxes are, it's just not part of their job description. As for Campaign Finance Reform, again President can't do much about that either, and I doubt that any President, or Presidential Hopefull would want to dig that grave up.
Politicans for the most part are lackies. Yeah they are powerfull guys, to you and me. Nothing compared to the people who got them there.
What's more interesting is I've hooked up my ipod to a flux capaciter and by adding 15 Jigga-Watts (and a Delorian) I'm able to do some REAL Time-shifting!
The Emac is pretty cheap, even the new Imac is pretty damn cheap if you think about it. 64bit chip, 17 inch (Apple) LCD. All for around $1200. That's not bad at all. All the software you need built into the OS (for the average user, think grandma, an uncle etc. and all of it quality).
*I meant to say OUR REVOLUTIONARY WAR, not "our civil war". Guerrilla warfare (on our home turf) was a tactic we employed during the Revolutionary war. The similarities are embarassing. The Viet Cong were like our conolialists fighting against the British, similar tactics that we invented, except they had a few decades more practice then our minute men had.
Wish I still had mod points this should be up there. You're levaing out the imperialisation of the western hemisphere during the "cold war". Don't forget about all those Banana Republics, lots of civilians die when Marines invade a country "to keep peace" during a coupe. Also don't forget the Phillapeans, it takes some serious bloodshed and opression to be able to pick up 2 T-Shirts at Old Navy for $10 ($5 if on sale).
The danger in our actions is that they lack forsight. For example without sweatshop labor we'd be in some serious trouble. The US minimum wage is pretty damn low compared to cost of living. There is no viable way to raise it. The only option is to bring the cost of living down, IE: cheap goods. Those goods can't be made here (see minimum wage rant above), so they must be made by third world nations where $1 goes a long way. The problem is most third world nations have governments that change like my underwear, so we bring stable "democratic" government to these places. Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutley. - Just a human thing.
This puts us into an endless cycle to feed ourselves (see downfall of any major civilization, or yurtle the turtle if you're feeling lazy). Where we go horribly wrong is when we overtake a Bannana Republic in the interests of a random coporation (United Fruit). United Fruit, for example gave no real benefit to the US. Sure cheaper bannanas are nice but "big picture" not worth the invasion and removal of the first democraticly elected official that Guatamala has ever had. - Oh and for reference the "president" that we put in power, the "elected one" there was no election.
The US (both parties) screw up in forgetting about history. Vietnam for example, Ho Chi Min can be compared to George Washington. He was trying to kick Colonial Rule out of his country (sounds familliar). He appealed to the US repeatedly, and we wanted no part. He finally went to the USSR for help after we refused repeatedly. All of a sudden we cared, and what happened. They beat the crap out of us using the same figting style we invented during OUR CIVIL WAR! Nice, we got beat at our own game. By forgetting the principals that our nation was based on, we have caused all these problems. Such as putting into power every single dictator that haunts us today, and YES you are RIGHT these dictators were put into power but both Democrats AND Republicans.
MORE IMPORTANTLY- The President is a FIGUREHEAD, they have very little power to do anything! They are the head of the military, they can invade anything they want (only in 30 day increments, after that they need Congressional approval). Your Congresspeople are the important ones. Don't belive the hype, stop getting caught up in Presidential elections like that position holds any weight. Pay attention to who you elect to Congress, cause they're the ones that sh!t on the Constitution when you're not looking.
Geekdom is becoming more and more mainstream every day. Ask a 16 year old about *Insert what used to be something only us computer geeks knew about*. Look about the number of registered/.'ers. It keep growing and fast. You know how many people I've turned on to/., many of them arent' even tech savy. They still check it everyday, and each month a higher percentage of the articles peak their interest, slowly but surely they start learning and the articles mean more to them. Before you know it they ask me "Hey did you see that article on arstechinca last week?"!
I was just thinking that I like slashdot and it's ok if they put a well placed ad here or there if it keeps up the high quality of this site. Maybe they'll be able to make it even better. Maybe they'll start to patent some of the features of slashdot, and trademark some of the slashdot esque things about it. Maybe they'll pick up some closed source companies that make a nice product and then open source them. Maybe they'll become a portal for all types of news, not just "news for nerds". Then perhaps they'll start to consider spinning Slashdot off of OSDN, take it public. Then they'll sell stock in some odd dutch auction, and offer 1 Terabyte of storage in the new "slashmail" beta free e-mail service.....
Seriously all companies (and governments) turn out the same eventually. Just like with google, we'll be sitting around one day commenting "Remember when slashdot was that indie little "news for nerds" site?
It's not really the same. I don't know what the lag time is between the notice to the "elites" and the release of a patch into the wild but assuming it's not very long what's the big deal. If anything it doesn't make much sense, but it's not evil.
For example some vulnerability is brought to light (as is done everyday around 7am), MS starts to work on it (for arguments sake let's say) around 3pm they have a beta patch. It goes into testing and at around 4pm it hasn't caused anything to smoke. They release it to their enterprise customers (are these the customers that you want beta testing? The customers that won't install your new OS or any service packs until they've been out for 2 or more years) - here is where this "doesn't make sense".
Then a week or so later no machines (or only a small percentage break, and this patch comes out via windows update for 1% of the population to download (as we all know , most users do not patch their boxen).
It would seem that it would be better to release these patches into the wild all at once from a QC standpoint, however you need to cater to those Bu$$ine$$ class customers by giving them better security, rewards, a pony etc for their ca$h. I guess that was their idea behind this.
I still don't think this was a big deal, or evil, just a bad way to build a relationship with enterprise call customers. Seriously, sending them messages like "We're not going to patch this for a month", or "here try this Beta patch on all your servers". I know I've seen an essential box or two taken down by a beta patch thanks to a green thumbed MCSE who thought he was doing good. We all learned not to trust brand new products at some time right?
I'm calling bullsh!t on this one. Processor differences being what they are I don't see this working. All other attempts at this have been so-so, to make a product like this "whithout a processing hit" sounds like this was written in some new programming language, perhaps one based on Magic.
My fiance is a teacher specializing in early childhood developement. It's amazing how closly technology mirrors the human body. For example many human developmental disorders have computers equivalents; processing delays, etc.
Even computers wether it was subconscious or not mirror our own brains. It seems our entire curve of technological development is based on our ingrained frame of reference, OURSELVES!
Finding alien life, or maybe researching the oddities on our own planet may cause inspiration that leads us down another path, technologically speaking. I for one could use some gills, wings wouldn't be bad either. To those of you in the biotech fields please get cracking.
I don't think anyone who didn't own these at one point would buy it. If some teenager ends up with this, it's cause his dad bought it for him. It'll end up next to the other crap that was "fun in my day". For us though, us conesoures of fine video games, us cultured folk who can gain amusement from really bad sound and worse graphics...
OK this is strictly a nostalgia thing. I found my 2600 a few years ago. I played it a bunch for a few days. It sucked. It was a lot of fun to break out the old classics that I grew up on but after a while it still only has one button and honestly combat SUCKS. I'll take Unreal of Counter Strike out whatever over Combat any day. -Anyone remember Keystone Coppers that game rocked.
Agreed, but luckily there is an abundance of free e-mail providers plus my ISP offers me 5 mail accounts with 20 Meg limits so no big deal there. Also the likelyhood of me being somewhere without internet access (these still exist?), or more so somewhere where I cannot tap into a nearby wifi are pretty slim (I live in NYC). I'll take chances with that before I carry around floppies.
Disclaimer - I do tote around the CD wallet of important items but they're software, not backed up important files. With the abundance of CD burners for cheap, and EVERY PC having a cd-rom really who needs floppies?
Floppy's (floppies?) were great for sneaker networks, and for backing up word files and all those other files from years and years ago but most files now adays are to large for a floppy. (Que "in my day....")
Other then for upgrading firmware on a motherboard who uses floppies? I back up most documents that I need to web based e-mail. Seems like most office environments have super redundant servers to the point that the only stuff YOU need to backup are personal items on your home machine. I keep my resume on hotmail and yahoo, the rest of the junk I need wouldn't fit on a floppy.
Could be if MS gets all the MP3 venders to use some version of an MS embeded Media Player blah blah on their hardware....
Very conceivable that MS could make an OS that will run on a more standardized MP3 player and fully integrate with the MS music store ala ipod & itunes.
Although, looking at the MS track record for producing what they'd like (and it working) smart money says "immenant failure".
Granted it's only in BETA, but will it be insecure? Will there be patches weekly to fix vulnerabilities that will allow someone to compomise my machine? Will there be patches to correct vulnerabilities whereby someone can steal my account information? Mostly will this application / integration allow someone to install code and access my registry? Lastly of course, will this Windows Media 10 upgrade break some of my applications and screw up SP2 for XP thereby making my machine not boot?
I have come to expect this kind of quality from Microsoft and I sure hope that they don't let me down here. It seems like they may have rushed this project so I'm confident that they'll continue their record of excellence.
I hate to nit pick and be "that guy" but web pages cannot be "slanderous". In fact nothing without audio could ever be slanderous. Slander by definition means audio. Libel on the other hand is written.
So it would be Libelous webpages.
side note, anyone catch Ali G interviewing Andy Rooney? hahahaha "Does you tink dat da media be well important?"
It doesn't have to time travel but I'd like the jets on the back.
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You know what I got from the article was:
It will now be easy for people/code to exploit a new vulnerability in Windows allowing (insert favorite action taken after an exploit is found HERE).
Umm, I saw this coming, I mean it's 10am where I am right now and I haven't heard about today's exploit yet.
In all seriousness Joe Computer needs to stop trusting Microsoft to do everything in his computer. Their idea of shouting "HEY STUPID get an anti-virus program" isn't a bad idea. The implementation was, but the idea isn't. From what I've read SP2 is a slight improvement security wise, so for Joe User all security updates are worth installing. (Joe User just normally doesn't ever run Windows Update. Think of the last time some relative called you with a computer problem!
"You: Did you try doing the 'Windows Update'?" - Relative: "Where's that?" -I rest my case.)
I'd rather the 14 million drone machines out there in the wild had XP2, then not.
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It seems that they are obviosly talking about the two legged, two armed kind. Hahaha, that is priceless to think that our there in someone's basement is a "sophisticated robot" capable of playing online poker. I think I'm going to start building one in my garage.
I just hope this isn't like when a has-been rock star starts remaking classic songs that they have no business singing. I feel that if you are going to remake a song it should be better then the original (yes almost impossible to do, so don't try unless you can pull it off). The SAME rule should apply here. I hope square doesn't tarnish the name of what I consider to be the greatest RPG of all time.
Powers of the President
Serve as commander in chief of all U.S. armed forces
Commission officers of the armed forces
Grant pardons and reprieves from Federal offenses (except impeachments)
Convene special sessions of Congress
Receive foreign ambassadors
Take care that Federal laws are faithfully executed
Wield the "executive power" (Sorry, this one's just funny ->"seem powerfull")
Appoint officials to lesser offices (Granted you can really "go nuts" with this one)
What are the big things that you hear from Presidential Candidates during an election year? "I will not raise taxes, we're going to lower taxes by making a smaller government, cut bueracraucy, etc." They sound good but the Predient has no more power to do those things then the lady who took my Driver's License photo at the DMV. Neither one of them have any say in what taxes are, it's just not part of their job description. As for Campaign Finance Reform, again President can't do much about that either, and I doubt that any President, or Presidential Hopefull would want to dig that grave up.
Politicans for the most part are lackies. Yeah they are powerfull guys, to you and me. Nothing compared to the people who got them there.
What's more interesting is I've hooked up my ipod to a flux capaciter and by adding 15 Jigga-Watts (and a Delorian) I'm able to do some REAL Time-shifting!
The Emac is pretty cheap, even the new Imac is pretty damn cheap if you think about it. 64bit chip, 17 inch (Apple) LCD. All for around $1200. That's not bad at all. All the software you need built into the OS (for the average user, think grandma, an uncle etc. and all of it quality).
*I meant to say OUR REVOLUTIONARY WAR, not "our civil war". Guerrilla warfare (on our home turf) was a tactic we employed during the Revolutionary war. The similarities are embarassing. The Viet Cong were like our conolialists fighting against the British, similar tactics that we invented, except they had a few decades more practice then our minute men had.
The danger in our actions is that they lack forsight. For example without sweatshop labor we'd be in some serious trouble. The US minimum wage is pretty damn low compared to cost of living. There is no viable way to raise it. The only option is to bring the cost of living down, IE: cheap goods. Those goods can't be made here (see minimum wage rant above), so they must be made by third world nations where $1 goes a long way. The problem is most third world nations have governments that change like my underwear, so we bring stable "democratic" government to these places. Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutley. - Just a human thing.
This puts us into an endless cycle to feed ourselves (see downfall of any major civilization, or yurtle the turtle if you're feeling lazy). Where we go horribly wrong is when we overtake a Bannana Republic in the interests of a random coporation (United Fruit). United Fruit, for example gave no real benefit to the US. Sure cheaper bannanas are nice but "big picture" not worth the invasion and removal of the first democraticly elected official that Guatamala has ever had. - Oh and for reference the "president" that we put in power, the "elected one" there was no election.
The US (both parties) screw up in forgetting about history. Vietnam for example, Ho Chi Min can be compared to George Washington. He was trying to kick Colonial Rule out of his country (sounds familliar). He appealed to the US repeatedly, and we wanted no part. He finally went to the USSR for help after we refused repeatedly. All of a sudden we cared, and what happened. They beat the crap out of us using the same figting style we invented during OUR CIVIL WAR! Nice, we got beat at our own game. By forgetting the principals that our nation was based on, we have caused all these problems. Such as putting into power every single dictator that haunts us today, and YES you are RIGHT these dictators were put into power but both Democrats AND Republicans.
MORE IMPORTANTLY- The President is a FIGUREHEAD, they have very little power to do anything! They are the head of the military, they can invade anything they want (only in 30 day increments, after that they need Congressional approval). Your Congresspeople are the important ones. Don't belive the hype, stop getting caught up in Presidential elections like that position holds any weight. Pay attention to who you elect to Congress, cause they're the ones that sh!t on the Constitution when you're not looking.
Better still, think of other things that used to be indie: like Alternative Music, body piercings, tatoos, Movies, you get the point.
Geekdom is becoming more and more mainstream every day. Ask a 16 year old about *Insert what used to be something only us computer geeks knew about*. Look about the number of registered /.'ers. It keep growing and fast. You know how many people I've turned on to /., many of them arent' even tech savy. They still check it everyday, and each month a higher percentage of the articles peak their interest, slowly but surely they start learning and the articles mean more to them. Before you know it they ask me "Hey did you see that article on arstechinca last week?"!
Seriously all companies (and governments) turn out the same eventually. Just like with google, we'll be sitting around one day commenting "Remember when slashdot was that indie little "news for nerds" site?
For example some vulnerability is brought to light (as is done everyday around 7am), MS starts to work on it (for arguments sake let's say) around 3pm they have a beta patch. It goes into testing and at around 4pm it hasn't caused anything to smoke. They release it to their enterprise customers (are these the customers that you want beta testing? The customers that won't install your new OS or any service packs until they've been out for 2 or more years) - here is where this "doesn't make sense".
Then a week or so later no machines (or only a small percentage break, and this patch comes out via windows update for 1% of the population to download (as we all know , most users do not patch their boxen).
It would seem that it would be better to release these patches into the wild all at once from a QC standpoint, however you need to cater to those Bu$$ine$$ class customers by giving them better security, rewards, a pony etc for their ca$h. I guess that was their idea behind this.
I still don't think this was a big deal, or evil, just a bad way to build a relationship with enterprise call customers. Seriously, sending them messages like "We're not going to patch this for a month", or "here try this Beta patch on all your servers". I know I've seen an essential box or two taken down by a beta patch thanks to a green thumbed MCSE who thought he was doing good. We all learned not to trust brand new products at some time right?
I'm calling bullsh!t on this one. Processor differences being what they are I don't see this working. All other attempts at this have been so-so, to make a product like this "whithout a processing hit" sounds like this was written in some new programming language, perhaps one based on Magic.
For example if I take pictures with a 2 Megapixel camera, then san the images at some insane resolution, they're still crappy photos.
Even computers wether it was subconscious or not mirror our own brains. It seems our entire curve of technological development is based on our ingrained frame of reference, OURSELVES!
Finding alien life, or maybe researching the oddities on our own planet may cause inspiration that leads us down another path, technologically speaking. I for one could use some gills, wings wouldn't be bad either. To those of you in the biotech fields please get cracking.
Me normmal spell well but me in hurree and not yet all the way recover from Layber Day
OK this is strictly a nostalgia thing. I found my 2600 a few years ago. I played it a bunch for a few days. It sucked. It was a lot of fun to break out the old classics that I grew up on but after a while it still only has one button and honestly combat SUCKS. I'll take Unreal of Counter Strike out whatever over Combat any day. -Anyone remember Keystone Coppers that game rocked.
Disclaimer - I do tote around the CD wallet of important items but they're software, not backed up important files. With the abundance of CD burners for cheap, and EVERY PC having a cd-rom really who needs floppies?
Other then for upgrading firmware on a motherboard who uses floppies? I back up most documents that I need to web based e-mail. Seems like most office environments have super redundant servers to the point that the only stuff YOU need to backup are personal items on your home machine. I keep my resume on hotmail and yahoo, the rest of the junk I need wouldn't fit on a floppy.
Very conceivable that MS could make an OS that will run on a more standardized MP3 player and fully integrate with the MS music store ala ipod & itunes.
Although, looking at the MS track record for producing what they'd like (and it working) smart money says "immenant failure".
I have come to expect this kind of quality from Microsoft and I sure hope that they don't let me down here. It seems like they may have rushed this project so I'm confident that they'll continue their record of excellence.
slander
1. Oral communication of false statements injurious to a person's reputation.
libel
1. A false publication, as in writing, print, signs, or pictures, that damages a person's reputation.
2. The act of presenting such material to the public.
So it would be Libelous webpages.
side note, anyone catch Ali G interviewing Andy Rooney? hahahaha "Does you tink dat da media be well important?"
It doesn't have to time travel but I'd like the jets on the back.
You know what I got from the article was:
It will now be easy for people/code to exploit a new vulnerability in Windows allowing (insert favorite action taken after an exploit is found HERE).
Umm, I saw this coming, I mean it's 10am where I am right now and I haven't heard about today's exploit yet.
In all seriousness Joe Computer needs to stop trusting Microsoft to do everything in his computer. Their idea of shouting "HEY STUPID get an anti-virus program" isn't a bad idea. The implementation was, but the idea isn't. From what I've read SP2 is a slight improvement security wise, so for Joe User all security updates are worth installing. (Joe User just normally doesn't ever run Windows Update. Think of the last time some relative called you with a computer problem!
"You: Did you try doing the 'Windows Update'?" - Relative: "Where's that?" -I rest my case.)
I'd rather the 14 million drone machines out there in the wild had XP2, then not.