Small group of bright to exceptionally bright people, working to a deadline being paid a load of cash, in a closed environment vs. several thousand people of varying intelligence, some likely far brighter, with an endless time limit, all over the world sharing their ideas, doing it for fun, maybe a security project, a challenge, or yes perhaps maliciously, working for free, because for whatever reason they're really passionate about it, and that alone makes it more powerful than those doing it for money.
Doesn't really take an even an IQ of 50 to see where this is going to go, every time..
through all these systems the only inevitable fact other than the system being circumvented, is the building infuriation of the paying customer with the increasing hoops they're having to jump through, equipment they have to replace/update simply because the next movie, and the next, that they bought won't run in their machine.
That's not strictly true any more tbh, with net traffic monitoring systems like imon in nod32. the code, or at least part of it (I'd expect a lot of threats would be detected before the code was completely downloaded) , may have been downloaded but couldn't have been activated at all.
It's a projection display, so it can be any size, the vid in the article shows one larger than most whiteboards covering the width of the entire wall being used (one of Jeff Han's models).
And as for the sticks, again, as shown in the vid, any object can be used to trigger the IR cameras sensors, and thus control the screen.
Interesting to see briefly a little on what's happened to Jeff Han (formed his own company producing multi touch displays for business and military, including wall sized as demoed in the vid, easy to do as it's a projection display) as well as more footage of Microsoft's new toy.
XBMC existed before the xbox360, and still hasn't been ported.
You can be kicked off live for a modded xbox just like an modded 360, but from what I've read the switch boxes work pretty well, and anyway plenty of people buy them as a cheep media box and never even attempt to hook them up for Live at all.
Indeed there are some very good ipod managers out there now, some that even run from your ipod itself as long as the OS you plug it into can access your ipod as a removable drive.
Floola is a free distribution, and my favourite of the ones I've tried atm. 15mb or so installed on your ipod is not a worry even on some of the smaller models, or if you don't mind losing about three times that you could have the win, osx, and linux versions all on, and manage from any system you come across.
Both of those errors are more often than not caused by Creative Labs god awful drivers. This is precisely why MS changed the Audio system for Vista. And also why it doesn't tend to effect *nix or any other OS on the same machine.
God this needs a rewrite. Copying and pasting bits to rearrange it with a killer hangover, I really shouldn't have submitted it without previewing for longer, sorry. At least the gist is clear even with the appalling sentence structure.
That can also be attributed to clean water, an abundance of food of any description, and significantly better healthcare.
While pumping yourselves full of processed crap, and over sterilize your environment, you pump yourself with scientifically advanced other crap to cope with your suffering immune system.
There are plenty of places in the world (Okinawa being one of particular note) where they eat healthy fresh organic food every day, lowest heart disease rates, and have some of the longest and highest quality of life through old age, without any of that crap.
This is becoming an increasing problem in the western world though, as the crap in our food increases, the sterility of our food and environment, and both our bodies, and the bacteria/viri or whatever the drug is designed to fight, build up greater drug tolerance (MRSA etc).
I don't recall the link, but it was on the Hollywood Reporter website. CBS renewed the stupid sitcom 'How I Met Your Mother' and it performed MUCH WORSE than Jericho. Don't tell me that this is business. This is plain-ass stupid!
To be fair, though I'm very much in support of Jericho continuing, and I don't know this 'How I Met Your Mother' show at all, but if the number of people watching it keeps the advertisers covering it production costs, then that'll be in the black, figuratively, and accountants like that sort of thing.
Jericho, even by their Nielsen based estimates may well have had many more viewers but I'm guessing the production costs were probably a LOT higher (HIMYM is a sitcom after all, no costly nuclear holocaust cgi needed, or tanks, weapons, squibs etc), so on that point it is good business.
The flaw would be in the Nielsen ratings. As long as everyones thoughts on their inaccuracy isn't based on peoples knowledge of internet viewing, as people torrenting episodes are currently the bane of the advertisers.
But no, they decided to leave viewers with a completely unsatisfying show by wasting episode after episode on farmer love triangles while civil war, military coups, and nuclear terrorism in the continental United States were apparently too boring to be dealt with until well after many people had given up on the issues ever being talked about again.
Congratulations, you and grandparent judged a book by it's cover, and also completely missed the point.
What happens when a town is completely cut off in the middle of such a disaster? well, comes a point there's not all that much they CAN do, bar they get on with what lives they have left, try to deal with their immediate situations as best as possible as their short term survival was more important than worrying so much about the outside world they couldn't safely contact.
Having said that, that state of affairs was very short lived, and the story really started opening out revealing what really happened, what was happening with the government, and what was happening with neighbouring surviving towns/cities, the brewing civil war, was all coming into play at a very well thought through and realistic feeling pace.
But oh yeah, that was just as you all turned off.
They may well drag it on too long eventually, but this show isn't Lost or any other, and you were wrong to judge it as such imo.
Has he done anything successfully? or in line with the annoyance of a judge I recently read about is he just trying to claim victories to sway people when the facts don't actually back up his claims.
And, hehehe, of all the companies most people would never, ever want to tangle with on a legal front, unless they were totally utterly sure of their position. Of course he is sure, which is what makes it so funny.
Friend of mine bought the 360 add-on player, and I've got to admit I really like the overlay disc menu's and stuff, much nicer system. and it is noticeably higher quality footage on his LCD TV.
Daft as hell blu-ray was faking video overlay content by having 2 copies of the film on disc originally though, but I've heard a new firmware updates the players so new discs can have real overlays now.
Oh come on now, if your local systems compromised your totally screwed whatever.
That's like arguing for not bothering with locks on vaults/tills because bank staff with enough security clearance could pocket wads of cash on the sly if they're careful enough anyway.
Just because there are insurmountable flaws, doesn't mean you shouldn't do everything you possibly can to cover the others to help limit the damage as best you can.
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Small group of bright to exceptionally bright people, working to a deadline being paid a load of cash, in a closed environment vs. several thousand people of varying intelligence, some likely far brighter, with an endless time limit, all over the world sharing their ideas, doing it for fun, maybe a security project, a challenge, or yes perhaps maliciously, working for free, because for whatever reason they're really passionate about it, and that alone makes it more powerful than those doing it for money.
Doesn't really take an even an IQ of 50 to see where this is going to go, every time..
through all these systems the only inevitable fact other than the system being circumvented, is the building infuriation of the paying customer with the increasing hoops they're having to jump through, equipment they have to replace/update simply because the next movie, and the next, that they bought won't run in their machine.
That's not strictly true any more tbh, with net traffic monitoring systems like imon in nod32. the code, or at least part of it (I'd expect a lot of threats would be detected before the code was completely downloaded) , may have been downloaded but couldn't have been activated at all.
Just wondering, how many linux distro's come with A/V? is it standard now?
And how fast would MS find themselves in court again for monopolising everything if they HAD included A/V.
It's a projection display, so it can be any size, the vid in the article shows one larger than most whiteboards covering the width of the entire wall being used (one of Jeff Han's models).
And as for the sticks, again, as shown in the vid, any object can be used to trigger the IR cameras sensors, and thus control the screen.
Yes that video was Jeff Han (also featured in the video in TFA) demoing his display a year or two ago.
Interesting to see briefly a little on what's happened to Jeff Han (formed his own company producing multi touch displays for business and military, including wall sized as demoed in the vid, easy to do as it's a projection display) as well as more footage of Microsoft's new toy.
XBMC existed before the xbox360, and still hasn't been ported.
You can be kicked off live for a modded xbox just like an modded 360, but from what I've read the switch boxes work pretty well, and anyway plenty of people buy them as a cheep media box and never even attempt to hook them up for Live at all.
Reeaally, so hardware sound via OpenAL instead makes DRM lock in easier?
Indeed there are some very good ipod managers out there now, some that even run from your ipod itself as long as the OS you plug it into can access your ipod as a removable drive.
Floola is a free distribution, and my favourite of the ones I've tried atm. 15mb or so installed on your ipod is not a worry even on some of the smaller models, or if you don't mind losing about three times that you could have the win, osx, and linux versions all on, and manage from any system you come across.
Both of those errors are more often than not caused by Creative Labs god awful drivers. This is precisely why MS changed the Audio system for Vista. And also why it doesn't tend to effect *nix or any other OS on the same machine.
Long answer : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/08/vigin_nati onwide_throttling/
(virgin had previously bought out NTL cable, the largest cable provider in the UK)
God this needs a rewrite. Copying and pasting bits to rearrange it with a killer hangover, I really shouldn't have submitted it without previewing for longer, sorry. At least the gist is clear even with the appalling sentence structure.
That can also be attributed to clean water, an abundance of food of any description, and significantly better healthcare.
While pumping yourselves full of processed crap, and over sterilize your environment, you pump yourself with scientifically advanced other crap to cope with your suffering immune system.
There are plenty of places in the world (Okinawa being one of particular note) where they eat healthy fresh organic food every day, lowest heart disease rates, and have some of the longest and highest quality of life through old age, without any of that crap.
This is becoming an increasing problem in the western world though, as the crap in our food increases, the sterility of our food and environment, and both our bodies, and the bacteria/viri or whatever the drug is designed to fight, build up greater drug tolerance (MRSA etc).
To be fair, though I'm very much in support of Jericho continuing, and I don't know this 'How I Met Your Mother' show at all, but if the number of people watching it keeps the advertisers covering it production costs, then that'll be in the black, figuratively, and accountants like that sort of thing.
Jericho, even by their Nielsen based estimates may well have had many more viewers but I'm guessing the production costs were probably a LOT higher (HIMYM is a sitcom after all, no costly nuclear holocaust cgi needed, or tanks, weapons, squibs etc), so on that point it is good business.
The flaw would be in the Nielsen ratings. As long as everyones thoughts on their inaccuracy isn't based on peoples knowledge of internet viewing, as people torrenting episodes are currently the bane of the advertisers.
Congratulations, you and grandparent judged a book by it's cover, and also completely missed the point.
What happens when a town is completely cut off in the middle of such a disaster? well, comes a point there's not all that much they CAN do, bar they get on with what lives they have left, try to deal with their immediate situations as best as possible as their short term survival was more important than worrying so much about the outside world they couldn't safely contact.
Having said that, that state of affairs was very short lived, and the story really started opening out revealing what really happened, what was happening with the government, and what was happening with neighbouring surviving towns/cities, the brewing civil war, was all coming into play at a very well thought through and realistic feeling pace.
But oh yeah, that was just as you all turned off.
They may well drag it on too long eventually, but this show isn't Lost or any other, and you were wrong to judge it as such imo.
the (or any) historical tragedy, or that ANYONE would even CONSIDER that preaching denial of it was the thing to do.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
you have seen the emails Thomson sent to vgcats right? http://www.vgcats.com/jack.php
Has he done anything successfully? or in line with the annoyance of a judge I recently read about is he just trying to claim victories to sway people when the facts don't actually back up his claims.
And, hehehe, of all the companies most people would never, ever want to tangle with on a legal front, unless they were totally utterly sure of their position. Of course he is sure, which is what makes it so funny.
The games probably safe for a 12 rating anyway.
Friend of mine bought the 360 add-on player, and I've got to admit I really like the overlay disc menu's and stuff, much nicer system. and it is noticeably higher quality footage on his LCD TV.
Daft as hell blu-ray was faking video overlay content by having 2 copies of the film on disc originally though, but I've heard a new firmware updates the players so new discs can have real overlays now.
today's Calvin and Hobbes :
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http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2007/05/2
you actually read the green screen FBI warning, it's not your ordinary copyright notice :)
how on earth did I managed to get this attached to this story, not the right one :o/
oh for even a short window of opportunity delete function.
you actually read the green screen FBI warning, it's not your ordinary copyright notice :)
lol, oh for mod points..
I hope someone records that well for you one youtube or something.
Oh come on now, if your local systems compromised your totally screwed whatever.
That's like arguing for not bothering with locks on vaults/tills because bank staff with enough security clearance could pocket wads of cash on the sly if they're careful enough anyway.
Just because there are insurmountable flaws, doesn't mean you shouldn't do everything you possibly can to cover the others to help limit the damage as best you can.