When asked about the status of the show, Lucas said that the footage “sits on the shelf.”
Does this mean that the the show has already been recorded? He's just waiting until special effects are cheap enough to add them in? Or is the footage "figuratively" sitting on the shelf?
This is OK, but I'd much prefer to see the patent ruled invalid. I've always heard it's a "failing defense" to challenge a patent based on prior art, but this just screams of prior art, to say nothing of obviousness. I hope it'll be tossed out in a court case.
Instead of free games, I want a method by which Sony will completely delete all information they have about me. Regardless of how responsible they'll be in the future, they had their chance and they blew it.
I already stopped my subscription to FFXIV. Even though I still had two weeks left before 30 day trial would've been over, they already disabled my logon. To me, this seems inexcusably bad. I paid for the game, which includes 30 days and they haven't given that to me. There's no way I'll be coming back.
The summary is incorrect. Windows 7 will be executable backwards compatible. Though the author of this article claims early on in the article that win7 won't be executable backwards compatible, he contradicts himself at the end where he states
"Microsoft will break from the Windows' norm by breaking previous API compatibility, offering new API frameworks as a native solution, and providing support for legacy frameworks (COM, ATL,.NET Framework, etc) through monolithic libraries designed to provide the functionality of all previous revisions of the modules in question."
In other words, older executables will still work, but they will just run more slowly than natively compiled apps.
Many computer security analysts have been screaming for years that there needs to be tighter security in applications and that law authorities need to do more against cyber crimes. As much as I don't want the law breathing down my back when I'm using the computer, it's time someone did something to stop stupid little script kiddies from pulling shit like this.
Now that the line has been crossed, and hackers are using exploits to cause physical harm to people, I hope that this will be the wakeup call for governments to start doing something about it. They need to start pressing hard on companies who release bug riddled software. Universities and books need to start ingraining careful, methodical programming and security mindedness before they even learn "Hello World."
And for goodness sake, get those donut eating pigs off of their fat asses and get them protecting people instead of chasing after 7 year old kids downloading songs from the internet!
I completely disagree with this review. To me, LOTRO is a poor man's WoW. I find the graphics to be underwhelming, the questing to be more dull than WoW, and the UI, combat and gameplay to be poor in comparison to WoW. The thing this review stresses over and over and over is that the license is what makes the game great. How can you review a game like this and primarily talk about how you love the license? That's like reviewing a crappy movie license game and saying it's a great game because you loved the movie.
As a person who has only a passing knowledge of LOTR, a license doesn't make this game any more enjoyable than any other MMOG. It ends up being just another cookie cutter MMORPG. Every minute I spent playing it felt like a chore and I have no intention of playing it again. Granted I hate WoW almost as much, but I recognize that it's a bit more polished in many ways.
In my opinion, he shouldn't have won. Anyone who has anayzed does not deserve to be awarded money. In my opinon, anyone convicted of anayzing should have a mandatory death sentence. There are many things in this world that can be tolerated but anayzing is not one of them!
If he was analyzing, however, that's a completely different story.
Is it a problem? Yes, but it's nowhere near as big an issue as Y2K was. The biggest issue for my company is that many of our machines are 2000, so we had to create our own patch, since Microsoft is only patching 2000 for people who pay their extortion fees.
The majority of our applications just go off of the OS time, so as long as the OS is patched, everything else is fine. The DBA's will be coming in over a weekend to test the patches on the Unix servers, and the Server guys will be doing the same for the Windows servers, but other than that, there's not that much we have to do.
The financial industry will probably have more problems than most, but still, it should be negligable compared to Y2K.
Perhaps before writing this review, the author should've read the missing manual for the English language. There's something called an apostrophe. I highly recommend using it.
Short answer: Yes.
Long Answer: Your doctor is the one who should know about medicine. If he finds out about medication from advertisements on TV, it is time to choose a new doctor. If he finds out about medication from patients who saw advertisements on TV, it is time to choose a doctor. If he will prescribe medication to you based solely upon your request because you saw an advertisement on TV, it is time to choose a new doctor.
His knowledge of medication should be completely restricted to facts, such as effects and clinical studies. Any time a doctor is being influenced by an advertisement, whether it be from television or the frequent free catered meals and trips with which pharmaceutical companies bribe doctors, your health is being put in jeapordy.
If your company pays for the internet access and for the machines the employees are using to access the internet, it would be foolish to feel they have any right to privacy. I don't like the idea of higher ups being able to see what I've been doing online, but I understand that since I'm using the company's internet connection and their computer (and their electricity, and the time I'm being paid to work) they can snoop in at any time.
God save us all if they discover how much time people spend on/.
How much of a grind is there in Warhammer online? I have no interest in (%#*&(@%# grinding, but have a great deal of interest in the potentials of MMOs. Does your game do anything to get rid of the grind and if so, how?
Furthermore, all the blocks put on his account were due to the inability to confirm that this account actually belonged to Stephen Colbert since creating an account with a public figure's name if you are not the public figure is against wikipedia policy. His account was not blocked for vandalism.
Ok, in addition to your misspelling of the word grammar, I'd like to point out that the phrase "Bad grammar" is POOR grammar! If you're going to critique someone else's English, at least get it right yourself.
You're one of the few actors I know of with a web site that includes the actor's involvment. How import do you think this has been in your career and continued fame? Do you think this will become important for all successful actors to have?
How important do you feel the internet has been in the success of Futurama? I know there are tons references to fan posting's and web sites on the Futurama DVD's. Do you think Futurama episodes online contributed to the continuing success of Futurama after it was cancelled? I'm sure there are plenty of people who weren't significantly exposed to Futurama until the episodes began making their way online...
This has been the method utilized by many Indie game develops for years, if not decades. I'd hardly call it "the next big thing," since it's been around for quite a while. Perhaps big developers haven't been using this method, but it's been around for longer than this article thinks.
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When asked about the status of the show, Lucas said that the footage “sits on the shelf.”
Does this mean that the the show has already been recorded? He's just waiting until special effects are cheap enough to add them in? Or is the footage "figuratively" sitting on the shelf?
This is OK, but I'd much prefer to see the patent ruled invalid. I've always heard it's a "failing defense" to challenge a patent based on prior art, but this just screams of prior art, to say nothing of obviousness. I hope it'll be tossed out in a court case.
Instead of free games, I want a method by which Sony will completely delete all information they have about me. Regardless of how responsible they'll be in the future, they had their chance and they blew it.
Yes. We know. It was addressed last week: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/28/1719247/GPS-Maker-TomTom-Submits-Your-Speed-Data-To-Police
What's so new about this corp?
Do you perhaps mean NewS corp?
I already stopped my subscription to FFXIV. Even though I still had two weeks left before 30 day trial would've been over, they already disabled my logon. To me, this seems inexcusably bad. I paid for the game, which includes 30 days and they haven't given that to me. There's no way I'll be coming back.
The summary is incorrect. Windows 7 will be executable backwards compatible. Though the author of this article claims early on in the article that win7 won't be executable backwards compatible, he contradicts himself at the end where he states
.NET Framework, etc) through monolithic libraries designed to provide the functionality of all previous revisions of the modules in question."
"Microsoft will break from the Windows' norm by breaking previous API compatibility, offering new API frameworks as a native solution, and providing support for legacy frameworks (COM, ATL,
In other words, older executables will still work, but they will just run more slowly than natively compiled apps.
Many computer security analysts have been screaming for years that there needs to be tighter security in applications and that law authorities need to do more against cyber crimes. As much as I don't want the law breathing down my back when I'm using the computer, it's time someone did something to stop stupid little script kiddies from pulling shit like this.
Now that the line has been crossed, and hackers are using exploits to cause physical harm to people, I hope that this will be the wakeup call for governments to start doing something about it. They need to start pressing hard on companies who release bug riddled software. Universities and books need to start ingraining careful, methodical programming and security mindedness before they even learn "Hello World."
And for goodness sake, get those donut eating pigs off of their fat asses and get them protecting people instead of chasing after 7 year old kids downloading songs from the internet!
Furries are NOT cute! They are more frightening and disturbing than a Klingon ever could be!!!
"I wonder what consequences this will have for Gateway's employees and customers."
Gateway has customers?!
This seems a bit foolish to me. By not locking out the MS-Novell and other deals, it's as if they're being rewarded for weakning open source.
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I completely disagree with this review. To me, LOTRO is a poor man's WoW. I find the graphics to be underwhelming, the questing to be more dull than WoW, and the UI, combat and gameplay to be poor in comparison to WoW. The thing this review stresses over and over and over is that the license is what makes the game great. How can you review a game like this and primarily talk about how you love the license? That's like reviewing a crappy movie license game and saying it's a great game because you loved the movie.
As a person who has only a passing knowledge of LOTR, a license doesn't make this game any more enjoyable than any other MMOG. It ends up being just another cookie cutter MMORPG. Every minute I spent playing it felt like a chore and I have no intention of playing it again. Granted I hate WoW almost as much, but I recognize that it's a bit more polished in many ways.
Looks like you're missing an anchor tag there. I highly recommend it. They're great for linking!
Oh wait, this is a story about Bill Gates. Is this a joke about how IE doesn't follow w3 standards for HTML? If so, it's not that funny.
In my opinion, he shouldn't have won. Anyone who has anayzed does not deserve to be awarded money. In my opinon, anyone convicted of anayzing should have a mandatory death sentence. There are many things in this world that can be tolerated but anayzing is not one of them!
If he was analyzing, however, that's a completely different story.
Is it a problem? Yes, but it's nowhere near as big an issue as Y2K was. The biggest issue for my company is that many of our machines are 2000, so we had to create our own patch, since Microsoft is only patching 2000 for people who pay their extortion fees.
The majority of our applications just go off of the OS time, so as long as the OS is patched, everything else is fine. The DBA's will be coming in over a weekend to test the patches on the Unix servers, and the Server guys will be doing the same for the Windows servers, but other than that, there's not that much we have to do.
The financial industry will probably have more problems than most, but still, it should be negligable compared to Y2K.
Perhaps before writing this review, the author should've read the missing manual for the English language. There's something called an apostrophe. I highly recommend using it.
Short answer: Yes. Long Answer: Your doctor is the one who should know about medicine. If he finds out about medication from advertisements on TV, it is time to choose a new doctor. If he finds out about medication from patients who saw advertisements on TV, it is time to choose a doctor. If he will prescribe medication to you based solely upon your request because you saw an advertisement on TV, it is time to choose a new doctor. His knowledge of medication should be completely restricted to facts, such as effects and clinical studies. Any time a doctor is being influenced by an advertisement, whether it be from television or the frequent free catered meals and trips with which pharmaceutical companies bribe doctors, your health is being put in jeapordy.
My only experience has been with Service Center, and all I can say is DON'T USE IT!!!
If your company pays for the internet access and for the machines the employees are using to access the internet, it would be foolish to feel they have any right to privacy. I don't like the idea of higher ups being able to see what I've been doing online, but I understand that since I'm using the company's internet connection and their computer (and their electricity, and the time I'm being paid to work) they can snoop in at any time. God save us all if they discover how much time people spend on /.
How much of a grind is there in Warhammer online? I have no interest in (%#*&(@%# grinding, but have a great deal of interest in the potentials of MMOs. Does your game do anything to get rid of the grind and if so, how?
Take a look at Colbert's block log: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special: Log&type=block&page=User:Stephencolbert and his talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Stephencolb ert. He's not banned, and although he was blocked at one point, that's since been removed.
Furthermore, all the blocks put on his account were due to the inability to confirm that this account actually belonged to Stephen Colbert since creating an account with a public figure's name if you are not the public figure is against wikipedia policy. His account was not blocked for vandalism.
Ok, in addition to your misspelling of the word grammar, I'd like to point out that the phrase "Bad grammar" is POOR grammar! If you're going to critique someone else's English, at least get it right yourself.
You're one of the few actors I know of with a web site that includes the actor's involvment. How import do you think this has been in your career and continued fame? Do you think this will become important for all successful actors to have?
How important do you feel the internet has been in the success of Futurama? I know there are tons references to fan posting's and web sites on the Futurama DVD's. Do you think Futurama episodes online contributed to the continuing success of Futurama after it was cancelled? I'm sure there are plenty of people who weren't significantly exposed to Futurama until the episodes began making their way online...
This has been the method utilized by many Indie game develops for years, if not decades. I'd hardly call it "the next big thing," since it's been around for quite a while. Perhaps big developers haven't been using this method, but it's been around for longer than this article thinks.