In my experience, both NVidia's and ATI's offerings in the driver front on Windows suck. Of course, this is more so based on my friends' experiences nowadays since I usually use Intel (notebooks) or NVidia (desktops, Linux) for graphics anyhow.
Why should software development companies waste money developing games for Windows when they could get a far larger market share by making games for Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, DS, PSP, etc.? The PC gaming market is much smaller than the console games market, and Nintendo is helping widen the gap with the Wii and DS which appeal to non-gamers as well.
Phone calls aren't encrypted (and I don't believe you're allowed to encrypt it anyhow due to wiretap laws or something), so that's not exactly a great example. Maybe sending secure mail would work better as an analogy (or since this is/., a car analogy of some sort).
Neither will terrorists. You're far more likely to be struck and killed by lightning than killed by a terrorist. I'd rather be killed by a terrorist (which ain't going to happen) than be a slave to the US government and its corporate sponsors.
Unless you "steal cable", your TV subscription is most certainly anything but free. Of course, if you've got cable internet, you probably had to get basic cable since it would end up costing the same regardless on whether or not you got the basic cable subscription in the first place. In that case, it's basically free.
Also, the TV shows you download on Xbox Live are ad-free and whatnot. It's pretty much the iTunes Store, but by Microsoft instead of Apple.
MySpace is already on its knees blowing the content industry (and due to all those "Technical Errors" so common to that hack of a website), so I guess they're going to fully collapse under the computation of video fingerprints, eh? I would hope so just so that something better than MySpace can fully take its place and house all of the world's emos in one centralised location without the need for other websites to offload them.
If MySpace is responding to DMCA takedown notices, anyone who fakes them would be violating the DMCA anyhow, but I guess the avenues for abuse of anything are beyond MySpace (which is why so many JavaScript-based worms hit that site).
The = signs are for padding because not all data can be evenly split into 6-bit chunks. This is basically for strict conformance to the standard (and to show that it's the end of the string if that helps at all).
It's mostly useful for text-only (ASCII usually) protocols likes NNTP or SMTP (I believe). You can encode your attachments in this (which basically converts 8-bit chunks into 6-bit chunks), or character sets beyond ASCII (e.g., UTF-8). It's a dirty, dirty hack, but it works pretty well for what it does. There is also something called yEnc which is used a lot more on Usenet nowadays since it can encode 6- and 7-bit chunks into ASCII, thus making a smaller resultant filesize.
If Microsoft followed open standards in the first place, it wouldn't have been a problem to receive documents in "Microsoft Office format" (it could have been ODF, or Microsoft could have made it an open standard in the first place), or view IE-only webpages (which can only happen because Microsoft extended or created their own IE-only "standards" and then marketed the hell out of it; if they used open standards such as those created by W3C, which Microsoft is part of mind you, it wouldn't have been a problem). Instead, Microsoft focused on vendor lock-in via proprietary data formats and protocols. This is why we hate Microsoft more than the person/company using the product.
But was Microsoft ever Slashdot's biggest contributor and friend and whatnot? Lucifer used to be God's best angel, but he got over his head and caused a bit of a civil war. Or so the story goes...
Someone has to fix that game first so it's possible to play using a GH controller correctly. I'd do it, but I can't get the damn thing to compile (and by "thing" I mean PyAmarinth; yes, a Python program).
GH2 hardly had any metal. I'm a metalhead by the way. I wouldn't consider the metal songs in the bonus section (e.g., Six, The Light That Blinds, Thunderhorse) to be part of the songs that people would typically complain about.
In my opinion, GH2 didn't have enough metal. Metal typically has much harder guitar parts than your typical rock music does.
I believe he's referring to new exploits that weren't fixed by patch tuesday, so that gives the black hats a full month of exploiting fully patched Windows boxen.
Well, if the patch changes the ABI, that will definitely break something without a recompile. There's also the chance that the patch just wasn't done right and changes the functionality of some part of the API by accident. And then there's all those uses of undocumented hooks, e.g., with many Microsoft programs as well as anti-virus ones.
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Several of those games you mentioned either work well in WINE or haven't even been released yet, so I don't see why you're complaining.
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
In my experience, both NVidia's and ATI's offerings in the driver front on Windows suck. Of course, this is more so based on my friends' experiences nowadays since I usually use Intel (notebooks) or NVidia (desktops, Linux) for graphics anyhow.
84 C not that bad? You can probably go sterile just looking at the damn thing. :P
Why should software development companies waste money developing games for Windows when they could get a far larger market share by making games for Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, DS, PSP, etc.? The PC gaming market is much smaller than the console games market, and Nintendo is helping widen the gap with the Wii and DS which appeal to non-gamers as well.
Once you get a subscription. I use it all the time.
Phone calls aren't encrypted (and I don't believe you're allowed to encrypt it anyhow due to wiretap laws or something), so that's not exactly a great example. Maybe sending secure mail would work better as an analogy (or since this is /., a car analogy of some sort).
Neither will terrorists. You're far more likely to be struck and killed by lightning than killed by a terrorist. I'd rather be killed by a terrorist (which ain't going to happen) than be a slave to the US government and its corporate sponsors.
Audio fingerprinting is a lot more advanced right now than video fingerprinting; it's much easier to do it with audio.
Unless you "steal cable", your TV subscription is most certainly anything but free. Of course, if you've got cable internet, you probably had to get basic cable since it would end up costing the same regardless on whether or not you got the basic cable subscription in the first place. In that case, it's basically free.
Also, the TV shows you download on Xbox Live are ad-free and whatnot. It's pretty much the iTunes Store, but by Microsoft instead of Apple.
MySpace is already on its knees blowing the content industry (and due to all those "Technical Errors" so common to that hack of a website), so I guess they're going to fully collapse under the computation of video fingerprints, eh? I would hope so just so that something better than MySpace can fully take its place and house all of the world's emos in one centralised location without the need for other websites to offload them.
If MySpace is responding to DMCA takedown notices, anyone who fakes them would be violating the DMCA anyhow, but I guess the avenues for abuse of anything are beyond MySpace (which is why so many JavaScript-based worms hit that site).
Not like it matters because nobody at /. RTFA anyhow. ;)
The = signs are for padding because not all data can be evenly split into 6-bit chunks. This is basically for strict conformance to the standard (and to show that it's the end of the string if that helps at all).
It's mostly useful for text-only (ASCII usually) protocols likes NNTP or SMTP (I believe). You can encode your attachments in this (which basically converts 8-bit chunks into 6-bit chunks), or character sets beyond ASCII (e.g., UTF-8). It's a dirty, dirty hack, but it works pretty well for what it does. There is also something called yEnc which is used a lot more on Usenet nowadays since it can encode 6- and 7-bit chunks into ASCII, thus making a smaller resultant filesize.
If Microsoft followed open standards in the first place, it wouldn't have been a problem to receive documents in "Microsoft Office format" (it could have been ODF, or Microsoft could have made it an open standard in the first place), or view IE-only webpages (which can only happen because Microsoft extended or created their own IE-only "standards" and then marketed the hell out of it; if they used open standards such as those created by W3C, which Microsoft is part of mind you, it wouldn't have been a problem). Instead, Microsoft focused on vendor lock-in via proprietary data formats and protocols. This is why we hate Microsoft more than the person/company using the product.
But was Microsoft ever Slashdot's biggest contributor and friend and whatnot? Lucifer used to be God's best angel, but he got over his head and caused a bit of a civil war. Or so the story goes...
Because PenIsland and PenisLand are two very different ideas that should not be confused.
I believe that is to preserve backwards compatibility with old programs that assume case insensitivity from the pre-OS X days.
Someone has to fix that game first so it's possible to play using a GH controller correctly. I'd do it, but I can't get the damn thing to compile (and by "thing" I mean PyAmarinth; yes, a Python program).
GH2 hardly had any metal. I'm a metalhead by the way. I wouldn't consider the metal songs in the bonus section (e.g., Six, The Light That Blinds, Thunderhorse) to be part of the songs that people would typically complain about.
In my opinion, GH2 didn't have enough metal. Metal typically has much harder guitar parts than your typical rock music does.
I believe he's referring to new exploits that weren't fixed by patch tuesday, so that gives the black hats a full month of exploiting fully patched Windows boxen.
Well, if the patch changes the ABI, that will definitely break something without a recompile. There's also the chance that the patch just wasn't done right and changes the functionality of some part of the API by accident. And then there's all those uses of undocumented hooks, e.g., with many Microsoft programs as well as anti-virus ones.
Yahoo sells MP3s? I was under the impression they rented DRM-infected WMAs (except for that one time they sold that customised song).
Maybe in the future they will once iTunes Store is selling uninfected audio files...