they aren't even attempting to have greater than 96.4% uptime, [...] if your cable or your phone just plain didn't work for 6 hours every Tuesday, heads would roll.
Maybe that's because cable and especially phone (911 !) is a little more important than a friggin' online game?
If you hate it so much, last I checked there were a lot of alternatives on the market.
Disclaimer: I don't play WoW. I play one of the alternatives.
This ain't news, this is olds. At best. It was like that 10 years ago and more, except that back then you also had the small computer shops where the people who actually knew a thing or two built your machine to custom specs if you asked for it. Almost all of those have been driven out of business by WalMart, BestBuy, whatever-large-retailer-you-have due to aggressive pricing and, of course, your average Joe "no clue" Doe shopping there because it's $5 cheaper.
The thing is, for the margins of your average retailer, you can't afford quality staff. And that's not just computers, that's everything.
Why don't we just seal up our borders and pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist?
Because you'd be back in the stone age within a decade. The US is the largest importing nation on the globe. 90% of what you can buy at your local Walmart was not made in the US. Not to mention, of course, that you'd all be crying and whining three days after your oil reserves run out.
Everyone - and that doesn't mean just us geeks - knows that M$ has never built anything even remotely good before it hit version 3.0
So whatever comes after the Xbox360 will be what's interesting. Xbox was just a test to see how many dumb people the console market offers (result: A lot). Xbox360 is M$'s try to do a proper console, and like windos 2.0 it's behind the competition and isn't there, yet. But Xbox720 (or whatever) will be like windos 3.0 - almost there, and good enough for way too many people.
There'll be no "war", except in the media, of course ("console war!!! OMG!" just sells much better than "not so spectacular console comparison made"). Just look at the architecture of the PS3 and you see how much more advanced it is. But M$ has deep pockets, a lot of stamina, and will sink another couple billions into the loss-leader just to get market share. And then when Xbox4 or so comes out, they'll have had enough paid-for-by-the-consumer beta tests to make a product that is good enough, cheap enough and has enough of the industry behind it to drive it home like a piledriver. The choice for most people then will be "Xbox or no console?", pretty much like it is with computers today.
That's where they're going. So move on, nothing to see here, this "war" is just a training excercise.
They want their own GPS system, even though we have one already.
If ours turns out to be better - will you be the one to convince the Neocons to shut down theirs and use ours?
Next they'll want an EU liberty statue.
I'd rather say we might want our back given that you don't live up to the promise anymore. (Lady Liberty was made in France and given to the USA as a present for those who don't know).
In a more advanced scenario the robots would create a 3d representation of the battlefield and the controllers will just point out targets, and possibly hit the fire button (for accountability reasons).
You've played too much Starcraft. A real battlefield is much, much, much more tricky, complicated and there's a lot of noise in your info. Navigating that alone (let alone shooting someone, much less the right guy) is a challenge for humans - robot technology is a decade at least away from just that.
Up in the air, things are easier - you don't have walls, debris, lots of moving stuff, different elevation levels and a hundred other things into account. Swarms of cheap robot airplanes, each armed with a single bomb or something - that sounds doable. Of course, we have those already.
This is an excellent step. Now if only someone can get the overcomplication down a little, maybe so that Linux boots directly from EFI and I don't have to choose "windos" first each time I actually want to boot Linux - that's just torture, isn't it?
There really are more important things in modern advertisement to worry about than this. How about the utter lies advertisement spreads? I don't mean painting the product in the best possible light, but actual proveably false statements, often known to be false by those ordering and designing the advertisement. Then the encroachment of ads into everyday space. Where formerly advertisement was clearly visible as such we have product placement, paid-for reviews and other mixing with actual content nowadays. In other words: You can't trust anything anymore. For all you know, all of this could be an ad for my new book on the topic.
For some reason, it strikes me as extraordinarily stupid to bite the hand that feeds... sorry, sue the bar that allows you to practice.
Then again, SCO shows us how what appears to be stupid on the surface can really be an extremely smart exploitation of the legal system for personal gains.
So, let's follow the money - what's Jack's potential profit here? More publicity?
If I got it right, it was the exact purpose of this that it allows you to give the URL (including credentials) to others so they can read your calendar.
As for the client history, well let's just say that any average user who's computer I have physical access to for at least 10 minutes is fucked no matter what, and client history is the least of his worries.
I see they took a hint from the games industry and - if Aero sucks up resources as badly as XPs "shiny lollipop" default theme - made a step to ensure that those who run an unlicensed copy actually have a more comfortable experience.(1)
(1) in games, this is where the NoCD hacks make the game more enjoyable even to those who bought the original.
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Not really. If it's a good hash, then it's just as if not more secure than a username/password combo. From a security POV, there's no difference between
So that's not the point. And don't say anything about POST, please, POST is not any more secure than GET, the only people it hides anything from are the dumber half of the AOL users.
The idea is you don't punish the good for being the good. That's like saying, why don't we ban the New York Yankees from baseball because they have the most talented players?
Absolutely right.
The crime here is the means by which success is achieved. In other words: We would ban the New York Yankees if it turned out they only win because they're all doping as hell.
Antitrust law is like doping rules: There are things you can do that make you stronger and faster, but they're not allowed because both sports and free markets only work if the competition is fair.
Even as a solid M$ hater, I must admit they are innovative. They just hype themselves to about 5-10 times of their actual performance. There's a few cool things coming out of Redmond every now and then. The problem is that they're overselling themselves so badly that everyone without a clue thinks they're the pinacle of the computer business - when they're more like the tail end.
We're living in a Marketocraty now. Vote with your dollars, they're buying the votes for the next election anyways.
And I urge you to do it as long as consumers still have some power in the market, because the corporations already realize that their worst enemy isn't the competition but the fickle customer.
I didn't say the beating should be dispersed in a vigilante fashion. In some countries, lashing or beating are still common sentences. Yes, we "civilized" countries have moved away from physical punishment. If that is an advantage in all cases is debatable.
Even though I can understand his desire for revenge (who couldn't? Most people have some not-so-pleasant episodes in their youth), this is a total bullshit lawsuit and was almost certainly the idea of his lawyers much more than his.
Not that punishment shouldn't be dealt. But the proper punishment for humiliating someone is a solid beating, not the destruction of your financial life for the next ten years.
Best thing Apple did since... well, I think since the MacBook Pro because they've done a lot of great things this year already.
Early in my days, I tried to get people switch to Linux by explaining all its advantages, helping them to install it, the whole nine yards. Worked sometimes, didn't work most of the time.
Since then, I've gone another path: The slow migration. Show them Firefox. Give them OpenOffice. Get them to use Thunderbird. etc. Then, when they are angry about their next windos crash, suggest Linux and show them that all of those run on Linux just the same. Instant switch. Moved my girl to Ubuntu just a few weeks ago, and she only boots dual-boots into windos for games by now.
Apple's using the same technique. Let people use what they're comfortable with, but tease them with the better thing (OSX) while making the switch as painless as possible (runs in same hardware).
By the time Vista comes out, Apple will probably have a sizeable chunk of the market, definitely more than 10%.
Too bad, another game company with great ideas bites the dust. Yes, I mean that. Look at Bungie - whatever came of them? Halo 2 their greatest idea since M$ bought them out?
Of course, what M$ wants - what M$ needs - are a few killer games that are Xbox-exclusive. Probably half of the original xbox sales were thanks to Halo. With the PS3 rapidly approaching, the 360 will lose a lot of market share if there aren't any great exclusive games, and quickly.
Or, just maybe, he thinks fightng AIDS among Africa's orphaned kids fills a tad more urgent need than MITS phantom $100 laptop.
If he actually thought that, he'd go about doing that and not worry about MITS laptop. The fact that he actually speaks out against it is a good indicator that there's more on his mind than just something that he considers more important.
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they aren't even attempting to have greater than 96.4% uptime, [...] if your cable or your phone just plain didn't work for 6 hours every Tuesday, heads would roll.
Maybe that's because cable and especially phone (911 !) is a little more important than a friggin' online game?
If you hate it so much, last I checked there were a lot of alternatives on the market.
Disclaimer: I don't play WoW. I play one of the alternatives.
This ain't news, this is olds. At best. It was like that 10 years ago and more, except that back then you also had the small computer shops where the people who actually knew a thing or two built your machine to custom specs if you asked for it. Almost all of those have been driven out of business by WalMart, BestBuy, whatever-large-retailer-you-have due to aggressive pricing and, of course, your average Joe "no clue" Doe shopping there because it's $5 cheaper.
The thing is, for the margins of your average retailer, you can't afford quality staff. And that's not just computers, that's everything.
Why don't we just seal up our borders and pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist?
Because you'd be back in the stone age within a decade. The US is the largest importing nation on the globe. 90% of what you can buy at your local Walmart was not made in the US. Not to mention, of course, that you'd all be crying and whining three days after your oil reserves run out.
last time I checked every OS comes with a Media Player.
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Hell, yes! Mine even comes with three different ones.
Oh... wait. Did I just destroy your argument there?
Everyone - and that doesn't mean just us geeks - knows that M$ has never built anything even remotely good before it hit version 3.0
So whatever comes after the Xbox360 will be what's interesting. Xbox was just a test to see how many dumb people the console market offers (result: A lot). Xbox360 is M$'s try to do a proper console, and like windos 2.0 it's behind the competition and isn't there, yet. But Xbox720 (or whatever) will be like windos 3.0 - almost there, and good enough for way too many people.
There'll be no "war", except in the media, of course ("console war!!! OMG!" just sells much better than "not so spectacular console comparison made"). Just look at the architecture of the PS3 and you see how much more advanced it is. But M$ has deep pockets, a lot of stamina, and will sink another couple billions into the loss-leader just to get market share. And then when Xbox4 or so comes out, they'll have had enough paid-for-by-the-consumer beta tests to make a product that is good enough, cheap enough and has enough of the industry behind it to drive it home like a piledriver. The choice for most people then will be "Xbox or no console?", pretty much like it is with computers today.
That's where they're going. So move on, nothing to see here, this "war" is just a training excercise.
Because it's about image, not results.
It often is in politics.
They want their own GPS system, even though we have one already.
If ours turns out to be better - will you be the one to convince the Neocons to shut down theirs and use ours?
Next they'll want an EU liberty statue.
I'd rather say we might want our back given that you don't live up to the promise anymore.
(Lady Liberty was made in France and given to the USA as a present for those who don't know).
In a more advanced scenario the robots would create a 3d representation of the battlefield and the controllers will just point out targets, and possibly hit the fire button (for accountability reasons).
You've played too much Starcraft. A real battlefield is much, much, much more tricky, complicated and there's a lot of noise in your info. Navigating that alone (let alone shooting someone, much less the right guy) is a challenge for humans - robot technology is a decade at least away from just that.
Up in the air, things are easier - you don't have walls, debris, lots of moving stuff, different elevation levels and a hundred other things into account. Swarms of cheap robot airplanes, each armed with a single bomb or something - that sounds doable. Of course, we have those already.
This is an excellent step. Now if only someone can get the overcomplication down a little, maybe so that Linux boots directly from EFI and I don't have to choose "windos" first each time I actually want to boot Linux - that's just torture, isn't it?
There really are more important things in modern advertisement to worry about than this. How about the utter lies advertisement spreads? I don't mean painting the product in the best possible light, but actual proveably false statements, often known to be false by those ordering and designing the advertisement.
Then the encroachment of ads into everyday space. Where formerly advertisement was clearly visible as such we have product placement, paid-for reviews and other mixing with actual content nowadays. In other words: You can't trust anything anymore. For all you know, all of this could be an ad for my new book on the topic.
For some reason, it strikes me as extraordinarily stupid to bite the hand that feeds ... sorry, sue the bar that allows you to practice.
Then again, SCO shows us how what appears to be stupid on the surface can really be an extremely smart exploitation of the legal system for personal gains.
So, let's follow the money - what's Jack's potential profit here? More publicity?
If I got it right, it was the exact purpose of this that it allows you to give the URL (including credentials) to others so they can read your calendar.
You are correct for SSL, of course.
As for the client history, well let's just say that any average user who's computer I have physical access to for at least 10 minutes is fucked no matter what, and client history is the least of his worries.
let's hope this doesn't mean radical changes in the games we see at the championships."
No, just in the gaming platform. RTFA - it's now Xbox-only. WCG just got assimilated.
I see they took a hint from the games industry and - if Aero sucks up resources as badly as XPs "shiny lollipop" default theme - made a step to ensure that those who run an unlicensed copy actually have a more comfortable experience.(1)
(1) in games, this is where the NoCD hacks make the game more enjoyable even to those who bought the original.
Not really. If it's a good hash, then it's just as if not more secure than a username/password combo. From a security POV, there's no difference between
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http://blabla.com?user=dummy&pass=dumbone
and
http://blablab.com?hash=3ebf71dc0135c7927da8fc55a
So that's not the point. And don't say anything about POST, please, POST is not any more secure than GET, the only people it hides anything from are the dumber half of the AOL users.
can finally experience some of the great innovation happening over on the Windows platform.
Mod story up +1 Great Satire.
The idea is you don't punish the good for being the good. That's like saying, why don't we ban the New York Yankees from baseball because they have the most talented players?
Absolutely right.
The crime here is the means by which success is achieved. In other words: We would ban the New York Yankees if it turned out they only win because they're all doping as hell.
Antitrust law is like doping rules: There are things you can do that make you stronger and faster, but they're not allowed because both sports and free markets only work if the competition is fair.
Even as a solid M$ hater, I must admit they are innovative. They just hype themselves to about 5-10 times of their actual performance. There's a few cool things coming out of Redmond every now and then. The problem is that they're overselling themselves so badly that everyone without a clue thinks they're the pinacle of the computer business - when they're more like the tail end.
So do what I do: Don't shop at WalMart.
We're living in a Marketocraty now. Vote with your dollars, they're buying the votes for the next election anyways.
And I urge you to do it as long as consumers still have some power in the market, because the corporations already realize that their worst enemy isn't the competition but the fickle customer.
Whoever modded parent "Funny", I hope you get meta-modded into oblivion, and I don't mean the game.
Missing mod option: "Sad, but true".
I didn't say the beating should be dispersed in a vigilante fashion. In some countries, lashing or beating are still common sentences. Yes, we "civilized" countries have moved away from physical punishment. If that is an advantage in all cases is debatable.
Even though I can understand his desire for revenge (who couldn't? Most people have some not-so-pleasant episodes in their youth), this is a total bullshit lawsuit and was almost certainly the idea of his lawyers much more than his.
Not that punishment shouldn't be dealt. But the proper punishment for humiliating someone is a solid beating, not the destruction of your financial life for the next ten years.
Best thing Apple did since... well, I think since the MacBook Pro because they've done a lot of great things this year already.
Early in my days, I tried to get people switch to Linux by explaining all its advantages, helping them to install it, the whole nine yards. Worked sometimes, didn't work most of the time.
Since then, I've gone another path: The slow migration. Show them Firefox. Give them OpenOffice. Get them to use Thunderbird. etc. Then, when they are angry about their next windos crash, suggest Linux and show them that all of those run on Linux just the same. Instant switch. Moved my girl to Ubuntu just a few weeks ago, and she only boots dual-boots into windos for games by now.
Apple's using the same technique. Let people use what they're comfortable with, but tease them with the better thing (OSX) while making the switch as painless as possible (runs in same hardware).
By the time Vista comes out, Apple will probably have a sizeable chunk of the market, definitely more than 10%.
Too bad, another game company with great ideas bites the dust. Yes, I mean that. Look at Bungie - whatever came of them? Halo 2 their greatest idea since M$ bought them out?
Of course, what M$ wants - what M$ needs - are a few killer games that are Xbox-exclusive. Probably half of the original xbox sales were thanks to Halo. With the PS3 rapidly approaching, the 360 will lose a lot of market share if there aren't any great exclusive games, and quickly.
Or, just maybe, he thinks fightng AIDS among Africa's orphaned kids fills a tad more urgent need than MITS phantom $100 laptop.
If he actually thought that, he'd go about doing that and not worry about MITS laptop. The fact that he actually speaks out against it is a good indicator that there's more on his mind than just something that he considers more important.