If you want to count the EU as one country(which the EU seems to want to do for things that benefit it, but seem wont to do when the statistics are less than flattering) Europe reigns supreme:
Europe now has six entries in the Dirty Dozen, which when combined, account for even more spam-relaying than the U.S.
Look at their previous 2 home console releases: the n64 and gamecube. There are a couple of other gems, but lets face it almost all the "have to own" games on those consoles were either Mario-related, Zelda, or Metroid. And now compare that to say the playstation/playstation 2 and you see there is definately a lot of room to grow. A new zelda game was just released for the Wii, a new one is out for the DS in Japan and should be elsewhere before year's end, a new Mario is being planned for the Wii etc. Doesn't exactly sound like "abandoning" but for the first time in a long time, Nintendo has the chance to go out and do a lot more with the Wii and DS then they had the capability/finances to do before. It's a good thing IMO
think about, you have a portable video player loaded up with some porn. The user starts watching, the heart starts pumping faster allowing for more porn to be viewed. Repeat ad naseum(or until the user needs a towel)
provided you aren't driving. That is much more important question. Or even better yet, why in the hell are SUVs legal? An ever better question that can save many more lives!
own blog from being hacked? Remind me to talk a couple of large grains of salt with whatever he says in the future. I'm not saying he is totally discredited, but it seems to me that doing something as simple as securing a blog shouldn't be that hard for an expert security researcher.....
Buy now or wait isn't just a dilema with Apple, its the dilema with the whole computer industry. And yet I don't hear anyone saying, "Damn, why did I buy that Commodore 64 when if I would have waited 20 years I could have had a dual core machine with 4 gigs of ram for the same price!"
Better products come out all the time, its the name of the game. Get the best that you can afford and go with that, or do what some people do: Buy a top of the line Apple computer every year then sell it a year later(for about a loss of at most $500) and then go buy the next top of the line computer from Apple and repeat. Some people do that and never spend more than $500 a year and always have the top spec machines. Not saying it will work for everyone(esp. if you abuse your electronics), but I'm getting really off topic here and its time for laundry. In conclusion, technology gets obviated all the time, deal with it.
Some of the more complex viruses invade various system files(the fact that windows makes it easy for them doesn't help). They modify some of the most basic system calls to the point that the virus becomes difficult, if not impossible to remove without reformatting. So how should anti-virus makers deal with infected system files if they aren't allowed to identify them as being viruses?
Wow, way to comment without actually reading the source material! You have, IIRC(this may also depend on the state) 14 days after signing to cancel out of a cell phone contract for whatever reason(most people do it because they get crappy service in their area) without paying a termination fee.
In the US, most people who have insurance get it through their place of employment, which means its hard, if not very expensive, for them to change. Now you would think that the companies would try to get the best value possible, but this is rarely the case. The insurance companies try to save money by denying as many claims as possible, and even outsource claims processing so they can absolve themselves of all problems associated with denying claims. Meanwhile, the suits at the top either have no idea what is going on or simply don't care. Do you think a CEO has to fill out a claims form? Or the person in charge of dealing with health insurance for that matter? Doubtful, and they are never denied. If you are an insurance company, it's amazing how much money you can make by approving a few boob jobs for the top suits' wives/mistresses while denying someone else cancer care for their child.....
One solution is to make companies make it public what they pay for health insurance for their employees, then give the employees the option of either taking the company health insurance plan or taking the money and going with a different plan. Suddenly, insurance companies would have to compete because they know that it is easy for clients who are sick of paying insane premiums while getting denied service will bolt no matter how many boob jobs they approve.
Because the iPhone (allegedly) uses GPL code, you dumbfuck!
That pretty much sums up the maturity level of Free Software zealots.
I wasn't debating the merits of their argument that the iPhone may or may not use GPL code, I was merely stating that just because someone uses somehting that isn't as "open" as Stallman would like doesn't mean they are a dumb slave....Grow up dude, seriously.
If you don't agree with what it "stands for", here is a real simple solution, DON'T BUY ONE!
See, was that so hard? You can buy your openMoko or whatever and be happy, and someone who has a different set of priorities than you do can buy the iPhone and be happy. Why does that bother some people? My personal opinion is that some FSF zealots see their cause as a religion and they cannot rest until they convert the "unbelievers" by whatever means necessary.
Apple had a "Town hall" meeting with all employees on Thursday to kick off this iPhone thing. Finally, we got at least some confirmation that Apple is doing stuff with the macs again as Steve said, "The first leg is the Mac business, which Steve addressed by saying that they have the "best Macs" in the new product pipeline ever right now, and that the stuff coming out in the next year is "off the charts."
So if this is true(hard to believe the half size thing, but..) we should be seeing them soon I would wager. Though I doubt the macbooks would get a feature that their pro bretheren do not have first...
You do realize that in most bioses you can disable cd booting and require a password to change any bios settings, correct? Its one extra level of protection, they will have a much harder time installing a new OS. They could still swap hard drives, but it becomes much more of a pain for the thief to do so and less likely that they will even bother.
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If you want to count the EU as one country(which the EU seems to want to do for things that benefit it, but seem wont to do when the statistics are less than flattering) Europe reigns supreme:
Europe now has six entries in the Dirty Dozen, which when combined, account for even more spam-relaying than the U.S.
Look at their previous 2 home console releases: the n64 and gamecube. There are a couple of other gems, but lets face it almost all the "have to own" games on those consoles were either Mario-related, Zelda, or Metroid. And now compare that to say the playstation/playstation 2 and you see there is definately a lot of room to grow. A new zelda game was just released for the Wii, a new one is out for the DS in Japan and should be elsewhere before year's end, a new Mario is being planned for the Wii etc. Doesn't exactly sound like "abandoning" but for the first time in a long time, Nintendo has the chance to go out and do a lot more with the Wii and DS then they had the capability/finances to do before. It's a good thing IMO
think about, you have a portable video player loaded up with some porn. The user starts watching, the heart starts pumping faster allowing for more porn to be viewed. Repeat ad naseum(or until the user needs a towel)
but even if it's apocryphal, it's so perfect that I can't care.
Are you sure you don't work for Gartner?
One hand to turn the crank, and the other to well, slide the rod... truly an amazing feat!
provided you aren't driving. That is much more important question. Or even better yet, why in the hell are SUVs legal? An ever better question that can save many more lives!
Damn pheonixes, not doing the digging I paid them to do!
own blog from being hacked? Remind me to talk a couple of large grains of salt with whatever he says in the future. I'm not saying he is totally discredited, but it seems to me that doing something as simple as securing a blog shouldn't be that hard for an expert security researcher.....
Are you implying that Michael Pacther is not the entier games industry? You sir are a blasphemer!
In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the money, then you get the women.
with his time? Hell, for half what he is making I'll sit around and post random disparaging remarks on blogs all day.
Yeah, Mrs. Butterworth sucks, did you know that? Terrible product, and even worse management. My money is with my Aunt Jemimah! Now gimme gimme gimme!
How about we just put Justin Timberlake in a sound proof, airtight room and forget to open it back up?
Buy now or wait isn't just a dilema with Apple, its the dilema with the whole computer industry. And yet I don't hear anyone saying, "Damn, why did I buy that Commodore 64 when if I would have waited 20 years I could have had a dual core machine with 4 gigs of ram for the same price!"
Better products come out all the time, its the name of the game. Get the best that you can afford and go with that, or do what some people do: Buy a top of the line Apple computer every year then sell it a year later(for about a loss of at most $500) and then go buy the next top of the line computer from Apple and repeat. Some people do that and never spend more than $500 a year and always have the top spec machines. Not saying it will work for everyone(esp. if you abuse your electronics), but I'm getting really off topic here and its time for laundry. In conclusion, technology gets obviated all the time, deal with it.
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Some of the more complex viruses invade various system files(the fact that windows makes it easy for them doesn't help). They modify some of the most basic system calls to the point that the virus becomes difficult, if not impossible to remove without reformatting. So how should anti-virus makers deal with infected system files if they aren't allowed to identify them as being viruses?
Could be that part of the camp is subsidized by the United States government which dictates that only US Citizens be involved.
Wow, way to comment without actually reading the source material! You have, IIRC(this may also depend on the state) 14 days after signing to cancel out of a cell phone contract for whatever reason(most people do it because they get crappy service in their area) without paying a termination fee.
In the US, most people who have insurance get it through their place of employment, which means its hard, if not very expensive, for them to change. Now you would think that the companies would try to get the best value possible, but this is rarely the case. The insurance companies try to save money by denying as many claims as possible, and even outsource claims processing so they can absolve themselves of all problems associated with denying claims. Meanwhile, the suits at the top either have no idea what is going on or simply don't care. Do you think a CEO has to fill out a claims form? Or the person in charge of dealing with health insurance for that matter? Doubtful, and they are never denied. If you are an insurance company, it's amazing how much money you can make by approving a few boob jobs for the top suits' wives/mistresses while denying someone else cancer care for their child.....
One solution is to make companies make it public what they pay for health insurance for their employees, then give the employees the option of either taking the company health insurance plan or taking the money and going with a different plan. Suddenly, insurance companies would have to compete because they know that it is easy for clients who are sick of paying insane premiums while getting denied service will bolt no matter how many boob jobs they approve.
Because the iPhone (allegedly) uses GPL code, you dumbfuck!
That pretty much sums up the maturity level of Free Software zealots.
I wasn't debating the merits of their argument that the iPhone may or may not use GPL code, I was merely stating that just because someone uses somehting that isn't as "open" as Stallman would like doesn't mean they are a dumb slave....Grow up dude, seriously.
If you don't agree with what it "stands for", here is a real simple solution, DON'T BUY ONE!
See, was that so hard? You can buy your openMoko or whatever and be happy, and someone who has a different set of priorities than you do can buy the iPhone and be happy. Why does that bother some people? My personal opinion is that some FSF zealots see their cause as a religion and they cannot rest until they convert the "unbelievers" by whatever means necessary.
Apple had a "Town hall" meeting with all employees on Thursday to kick off this iPhone thing. Finally, we got at least some confirmation that Apple is doing stuff with the macs again as Steve said, "The first leg is the Mac business, which Steve addressed by saying that they have the "best Macs" in the new product pipeline ever right now, and that the stuff coming out in the next year is "off the charts."
So if this is true(hard to believe the half size thing, but..) we should be seeing them soon I would wager. Though I doubt the macbooks would get a feature that their pro bretheren do not have first...
You do realize that in most bioses you can disable cd booting and require a password to change any bios settings, correct? Its one extra level of protection, they will have a much harder time installing a new OS. They could still swap hard drives, but it becomes much more of a pain for the thief to do so and less likely that they will even bother.
is to imagine a guy in his late 20s sitting in his parents basement sucking down Mountain Dew and inhaling cheetos.....
Oh wait, thats not what you meant by "visualizing" them, is it?
Can they please go back to making computers now?
dig it!