It certainly won't work for [...] programming languages
Yes it does. It's a question of design, the design of the programming language, of its documentations and of its library can make security holes much harder to create.
When it actually becomes harder to do the wrong thing than to do the "right" thing, creating security holes becomes the fault of the user. When it's much harder to do the "right" thing than the "wrong" one, and most documentations suggest the "wrong" thing, then it's completely the fault of the language.
This is pretty much the last nail in the psp's coffin (at least in Japan.. in Europe it's dead since it was released).
The PSP is actually much deader in Japan than in Europe as the DS has consistently been outselling it 5:1 to 10:1 for more than 30 weeks (since the release of the DS Lite in March)
Except that when it comes to war, being physically the largest is no longer a deciding factor.
How the hell is that even remotely related with my post?
Once the war is over, anyone survivors that breed, get to pass on their genetic code, including any mutations.
So what? Modern warfare usually slaughters anything in its way, there's no known genetic trait making you immune to shrapnels or lead bullets in the head, so no specific mutation will be favoured often an other except by sheer chance/randomness.
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No, the fact that I'm using OSX and not one of your nazi-compliant distributions which i don't care for.
It doesn't, NS isn't a conscious process, it doesn't "favor" anything.
It's just that, in a not-so-distant past, people who could absorb dairies had a higher chance of survival during famines and such (because they didn't have to slaughter the cattle outright), therefore had a higher chance to reproduce and spread their lactase-tolerance to the next generation.
6000 years ago, in some parts of the world, lactase tolerance was a survival advantage. That's all there is to it.
It's really simple, drinking milk or not really had no influence on human evolution. Humans that couldnt drink milk found something else to eat.
They point is that they often couldn't. Check populations such as the African's Masaï tribe, cows are their lifeline and most of their diet is composed of milk and dairy products and cow blood (for warriors). A masaï suffering from adult lactose intolerance wouldn't reach puberty.
The invention of the gun had more influence on evolution (or de-evolution) than anything else.
No it didn't, guns haven't yet generated any new evolutionary path. If you one day discover bullets-resistant humans then they may be favored by natural selection, until then guns have no major influence on the human evolutionary path.
And it gets modded up.. As insightful at that..:( Sigh. Note to the OP i don't have anything against you but I wish you wouldn't generalize. Feel free to make fun of the "crazies". It's okay. But don't bring Jesus into stuff like this. He didn't say anything about this kind of thing! His whole existance on this Earth was to set an example as to how we should behave and to give our lives meaning.
You've got some troubles with irony now don't you?
However, there are other rights - such a private property
Copyright infringement is not a violation of private property rights.
Let's say you have a bird-feeding house on your lawn. You made it yourself, it looks nice and all. I come by, see the house and am very interested by it. I observe it from the road (not stepping on your lawn or anything), then I go back home and make a copy of your bird feeding lawn for my own house.
I didn't infringe on your private property rights, I didn't steal your bird-feeding house (and you can still use yours), yet I do have a bird-feeding house much like yours.
and violation of those rights will, as a consequence, make it impossible to be successful in certain types of business.
So what? As mentioned, there is nothing giving you "the right to be successful". Some business can't be successful, and that's the end of it.
and this has no relation whatsoever with copyright infringement issues anyway.
The Wii's WiFi even handle all 3 versions of WPA (the DS only supports WEP, so it's good news)
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The goals of the Xbox and GameCube were widely different, the Gamecube was to put Nintendo back at #1 place it fell from during the N64/PS era, while the Xbox' goal was spearheading Microsoft's efforts to get presence in the living room, build awareness of the Xbox brand, introduce online to console gamers (XBL) and refine the online console gaming (XBL again).
The gamecube did not fullfill its goals even though it yield ungodly profits for Nintendo, the Xbox did even though it cost ungodly amounts of money to Microsoft.
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But many people who call the Gamecube a failure also call the Xbox a success, despite practically identical totals (and the fact that the Gamecube actually, you know, made money).
That's because they weren't made with the same objective. The GameCube's goal was to get Nintendo back to the first place it lost during the PS/N64 generation, and it failed. The Xbox' goal was to introduce Microsoft to a new market, build brand awareness around the Xbox name, introduce and refine "true" online console experience with XBL, and spearhead Microsoft's effort to get into the living room. And as much as I hate it, the Xbox did fullfill its goals, the Xbox brand is now quite strong, XBL is the best online console experience you can get, and the Xbox yield many lessons for Microsoft.
Actually, they should have, there are rumors (and pics) showing that the euro wiimotes seem to come with a sturdier strap. It's Nintendo by the way, Sony are the other guys.
As ever, Nintendo launch a new console in the EU to the sound of "Oh for fucksakes! FUCKING NINTENDO EUROPE!!!".
Well at least we have consoles in the first place (*glances in the general Sony direction).
And we have them barely 6 days after Japan, which means that for the first time ever Europe can experience out-of-stock-the-day-of-launch launches.
Not to mention that they should restock every 3 days or so (i was told that -- in some french outlets at least -- there would be restocks on the 12th, 15th and 20th)
Not of course, had you preordered some time ago you'd have a Wii by now.
The Gamecube sold 4 million units in Japan compared to maybe 450-500k Xbox 1's (couldn't find a number beyond mid-05 of 450k. They stop production around that time of the year so close enough).
So what? The Xbox didn't even exist in Japan, and the Xbox 360 isn't doing much better, that's not an argument.
What's more Nintendo actually made money on each console sold.
There again so what? I AM an Nbot/Ntard/NBoi, I know those arguments because I used them myself once upon a time, but they're missing the point. The point is that the GC sold less than 20% of what the last gen leader sold. And Sony made a profit out of their PS2s too. Not all of them, but most.
No, by creating a new, easier to use, more obvious input method, and by designing games that would appeal to persons out of the regular "mainstream" gaming market (males aged 15-25). Just as they previously did with the DS.
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The GameCube was a failure compared to both previous nintendo consoles and the PS2, it nearly completely bombed in Japan, did horribly in Europe, the only place where it sold some were the USA, and even then it only sold 21 millions worldwide. Just so you know, the PS2's clocking at 110 millions now, the N64 sold more than 30 millions and the SNES/SuperFamicom ended it's life after having sold 49 million consoles.
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Yup, but PHP (still) makes it really easy to open SQL injection holes in your apps, it's therefore some kind of meta-culprit.
It's wide open for monkey patching, good luck if you want to:
I'd advise to switch to a language designed by a human, not a zombie.
Yes it does. It's a question of design, the design of the programming language, of its documentations and of its library can make security holes much harder to create.
When it actually becomes harder to do the wrong thing than to do the "right" thing, creating security holes becomes the fault of the user. When it's much harder to do the "right" thing than the "wrong" one, and most documentations suggest the "wrong" thing, then it's completely the fault of the language.
Most PHP issues are the latter.
Not Square here, Enix (even though one bougth the other one, they don't mess with each other business).
It's also consistent with DQ's principles: release the main (numbered) games on the most successful console of the generation period
The PSP is actually much deader in Japan than in Europe as the DS has consistently been outselling it 5:1 to 10:1 for more than 30 weeks (since the release of the DS Lite in March)
How the hell is that even remotely related with my post?
So what? Modern warfare usually slaughters anything in its way, there's no known genetic trait making you immune to shrapnels or lead bullets in the head, so no specific mutation will be favoured often an other except by sheer chance/randomness.
No, the fact that I'm using OSX and not one of your nazi-compliant distributions which i don't care for.
Mmm that may be part of the problem.
It doesn't, NS isn't a conscious process, it doesn't "favor" anything.
It's just that, in a not-so-distant past, people who could absorb dairies had a higher chance of survival during famines and such (because they didn't have to slaughter the cattle outright), therefore had a higher chance to reproduce and spread their lactase-tolerance to the next generation.
6000 years ago, in some parts of the world, lactase tolerance was a survival advantage. That's all there is to it.
I take it you've never read xkcd have you?
Except that natural selection is something extremely precise which is fully contained in the evolutionary process.
When you talk of natural selection, you talk of evolution.
Offense, on the other hand, is an extremely generic process (a meta-process?) that can be part of several completely unrelated processes.
Natural selection is one of the evolutionary processes, just as mutations are.
Natural selection is part of evolution, not something completely different and disjoint.
They point is that they often couldn't. Check populations such as the African's Masaï tribe, cows are their lifeline and most of their diet is composed of milk and dairy products and cow blood (for warriors). A masaï suffering from adult lactose intolerance wouldn't reach puberty.
No it didn't, guns haven't yet generated any new evolutionary path. If you one day discover bullets-resistant humans then they may be favored by natural selection, until then guns have no major influence on the human evolutionary path.
You've got some troubles with irony now don't you?
Copyright infringement is not a violation of private property rights.
Let's say you have a bird-feeding house on your lawn. You made it yourself, it looks nice and all. I come by, see the house and am very interested by it. I observe it from the road (not stepping on your lawn or anything), then I go back home and make a copy of your bird feeding lawn for my own house.
I didn't infringe on your private property rights, I didn't steal your bird-feeding house (and you can still use yours), yet I do have a bird-feeding house much like yours.
The Wii's WiFi even handle all 3 versions of WPA (the DS only supports WEP, so it's good news)
The goals of the Xbox and GameCube were widely different, the Gamecube was to put Nintendo back at #1 place it fell from during the N64/PS era, while the Xbox' goal was spearheading Microsoft's efforts to get presence in the living room, build awareness of the Xbox brand, introduce online to console gamers (XBL) and refine the online console gaming (XBL again).
The gamecube did not fullfill its goals even though it yield ungodly profits for Nintendo, the Xbox did even though it cost ungodly amounts of money to Microsoft.
That's because they weren't made with the same objective. The GameCube's goal was to get Nintendo back to the first place it lost during the PS/N64 generation, and it failed. The Xbox' goal was to introduce Microsoft to a new market, build brand awareness around the Xbox name, introduce and refine "true" online console experience with XBL, and spearhead Microsoft's effort to get into the living room. And as much as I hate it, the Xbox did fullfill its goals, the Xbox brand is now quite strong, XBL is the best online console experience you can get, and the Xbox yield many lessons for Microsoft.
Actually, they should have, there are rumors (and pics) showing that the euro wiimotes seem to come with a sturdier strap. It's Nintendo by the way, Sony are the other guys.
Well at least we have consoles in the first place (*glances in the general Sony direction).
And we have them barely 6 days after Japan, which means that for the first time ever Europe can experience out-of-stock-the-day-of-launch launches.
Not to mention that they should restock every 3 days or so (i was told that -- in some french outlets at least -- there would be restocks on the 12th, 15th and 20th)
Not of course, had you preordered some time ago you'd have a Wii by now.
WiFi is built-in, tool.
Everyone gets that packaging, except the USA that is.
The nunchuck, wiimote and wiimode + wiiplay bundle come in the same kind of boxes by the way.
Blame your shoplifting crowds.
So what? The Xbox didn't even exist in Japan, and the Xbox 360 isn't doing much better, that's not an argument.
There again so what? I AM an Nbot/Ntard/NBoi, I know those arguments because I used them myself once upon a time, but they're missing the point. The point is that the GC sold less than 20% of what the last gen leader sold. And Sony made a profit out of their PS2s too. Not all of them, but most.
No, by creating a new, easier to use, more obvious input method, and by designing games that would appeal to persons out of the regular "mainstream" gaming market (males aged 15-25). Just as they previously did with the DS.
The GameCube was a failure compared to both previous nintendo consoles and the PS2, it nearly completely bombed in Japan, did horribly in Europe, the only place where it sold some were the USA, and even then it only sold 21 millions worldwide. Just so you know, the PS2's clocking at 110 millions now, the N64 sold more than 30 millions and the SNES/SuperFamicom ended it's life after having sold 49 million consoles.