What protection do you have that they won't buy you up, string you along for a bit, and then quietly dispose of you taking all your work?
I worked for a games company for 2 years that wasn't even 'bought' but invested in and they still managed to do that to us by pushing us to hard targets for reinvestment, that required the expenditure of a lot of money (including advertising) and then though all targets were EXCEEDED by a large margin (very large beta userbase etc), they then promptly declared a month before the review was due, that they were not in fact going to reinvest whatever happened.
This left my employer with a substantial debt, that after a month of letting him stew trying to find new investors, they 'kindly' offered to write off for the sum of everything. All hardware, all IP, the lot.
Later we discovered our investors had cut a deal with Sony to produce similar games, so we believe they took it all internally, though to the best of my knowledge they ended up not finishing or releasing anything based on our work.
I never did understand why this fuss wasn't made when it was still such an idiot default setting in XP....
and then AGAIN in vista.
I was utterly flummoxed it was still so in win7. I'm sure they have the 'well we've got security right now so it doesn't matter' attitude but they're still wrong.
The choice of music in one of the trailers I saw was fantastic, but you're right, that was about the only piece I enjoyed and really felt fit in the movie.
I will be late for a lecture If I read any more replies, but that's exactly how I felt. My first year has a few weeks and the last term left, and I'll be 34 when I finish my CS degree.
It's strange how many slashdot stories like this could have been written for me recently.
2 seconds on Google found others installed win7 just fine on Thinkpad T43's (same as TFA), they only had the old vista biometric coprocessors drivers crash, it works fine without them.
the fact that most old vista drivers work fine in win7 (with no additional win7 features of course) is a plus point for most, but the fact that this one fails, so what, it's not designed for win7, and as security hardware designed to tightly integrate into the OS, I really wouldn't expect it too.
Upek do have win7 beta drivers that work just fine on the thinkpad x61 range, other biometric vendors will catch up eventually if they have not already.
Does even the $64285 (roughly) per machine seem plausible? do they really keep anything like that amount in any ATM?
The article says "Over 130 different ATM machines", so I've pulled that to $9000000/140, they surely would have said 'over 140' if it was any more, hah.
Because at first MS declared it 'by design', and 'wont fix'.
The 2 fixes they have implemented a great news, they claim at least one of them was planned anyway.
I don't care how it happened, I'm just very glad it did.
The obvious solution to this is to provide a way for a script to disable and enable UAC. But as soon as you do that, ALL of the protection offered by UAC disappears.
re. MS's 'By Design' / 'Won't Fix' response, they basically say - 'This doesn't matter as if this happens you are already infected'.
You need the damn UAC setting prompt so you are ALERTED TO THE FACT THAT THIS HAS HAPPENED SOMEHOW ASAP.
Yes the user may have done something stupid to allow infection, but the UAC setting prompt would then protect them from further damage even before the malicious code check package was updated to find whatever was out there infecting systems.
The Highest UAC setting would prevent this but it is not default.
All they have to do to fix this entirely, and make the current default not effected by this flaw, is change the UAC settings security certificate.
The English voices used like nearly all ( Mononoke being a rare exception but the original is still better) seriously didn't match the characters at all.
I can't stand it, the g that is entirely reprasentative of the company doesn't stand out anywhere near clearly enough, the entire thing is just a blob and it makes tracking Google tabs in firefox a nightmare.
The user submitted favicons FTFA by by Hadi Onur Demirsoy, Lucian E. Marin and Yusuf Sevgen are all considerably better.
On Vista, for just the current user when the auto play options pop up there's an 'advanced options' (or similar, I forget the exact wording) link at the bottom, or you can just go to:
Control Panel -> AutoPlay.
Disable 'Use Autoplay for all media and devices' right at the top and you're done. (If your paranoid like me you can then also set all the options to 'Take no action')
To enforce this globally for all users as an admin (XP also AFAIK):
start - run - type 'gpedit.msc' (hit enter, vista requires elevation)
Computer configuration
|_ Administrative Templates
|_ Windows Components
|_ Autoplay Policies
|_ Turn Off Autoplay (double click) select 'Enable' then in the dropdown select 'All Drives' and hit 'OK'
Also apply the same to the same location in 'User Configuration':
User Configuration
|_ Administrative Templates
|_ Windows Components
|_ Autoplay Policies
|_ Turn Off Autoplay (double click) select 'Enable' then in the dropdown select 'All Drives' and hit 'OK'
Everyone would have been even more intrigued to see the 'rip off' out of general human curiosity in controversy than if they had seen a regular advertisement, and then found it was in fact a better product.
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Old dos games should definitely only be tried in something like dosbox, or scummvm (for those old adventure games) even in much earlier OS's.
So the EU 'won' and there is a version of win7 with no IE and lots of hassle.
So good job , I know this will be available, and my choice is I do not wish to use it.
I do not use IE for anything I'm a Firefox fan, but I just do not have any wish to pay for all this hassle.
Where can I exercise my right to chose to buy the regular windows 7 instead of the Windows 7 E or N packages?
What protection do you have that they won't buy you up, string you along for a bit, and then quietly dispose of you taking all your work?
I worked for a games company for 2 years that wasn't even 'bought' but invested in and they still managed to do that to us by pushing us to hard targets for reinvestment, that required the expenditure of a lot of money (including advertising) and then though all targets were EXCEEDED by a large margin (very large beta userbase etc), they then promptly declared a month before the review was due, that they were not in fact going to reinvest whatever happened.
This left my employer with a substantial debt, that after a month of letting him stew trying to find new investors, they 'kindly' offered to write off for the sum of everything. All hardware, all IP, the lot.
Later we discovered our investors had cut a deal with Sony to produce similar games, so we believe they took it all internally, though to the best of my knowledge they ended up not finishing or releasing anything based on our work.
I never did understand why this fuss wasn't made when it was still such an idiot default setting in XP.... and then AGAIN in vista. I was utterly flummoxed it was still so in win7. I'm sure they have the 'well we've got security right now so it doesn't matter' attitude but they're still wrong.
The choice of music in one of the trailers I saw was fantastic, but you're right, that was about the only piece I enjoyed and really felt fit in the movie.
I will be late for a lecture If I read any more replies, but that's exactly how I felt. My first year has a few weeks and the last term left, and I'll be 34 when I finish my CS degree. It's strange how many slashdot stories like this could have been written for me recently.
How does cloud computing solve the CPU-GPU bandwidth issues of modern games? Gamers still want to see the game, and at ultra high rez & IQ.
The AC reply got the right one, haiku is the active project, they don't have a stable release yet though, only pre alpha nightly builds.
So you missed Zeta then ? http://www.zeta-os.com/cms/news.php (change to English via the dropdown on the left)
Dundee not on their list of course, already being wired up for 100Mbps fiber by H2O - http://www.fibrecity.eu/
2 seconds on Google found others installed win7 just fine on Thinkpad T43's (same as TFA), they only had the old vista biometric coprocessors drivers crash, it works fine without them. the fact that most old vista drivers work fine in win7 (with no additional win7 features of course) is a plus point for most, but the fact that this one fails, so what, it's not designed for win7, and as security hardware designed to tightly integrate into the OS, I really wouldn't expect it too.
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=73121
Upek do have win7 beta drivers that work just fine on the thinkpad x61 range, other biometric vendors will catch up eventually if they have not already.
The article says "Over 130 different ATM machines", so I've pulled that to $9000000/140, they surely would have said 'over 140' if it was any more, hah.
Because at first MS declared it 'by design', and 'wont fix'. The 2 fixes they have implemented a great news, they claim at least one of them was planned anyway. I don't care how it happened, I'm just very glad it did.
Fixed.
re. MS's 'By Design' / 'Won't Fix' response, they basically say - 'This doesn't matter as if this happens you are already infected'.
You need the damn UAC setting prompt so you are ALERTED TO THE FACT THAT THIS HAS HAPPENED SOMEHOW ASAP.
Yes the user may have done something stupid to allow infection, but the UAC setting prompt would then protect them from further damage even before the malicious code check package was updated to find whatever was out there infecting systems.
The Highest UAC setting would prevent this but it is not default.
All they have to do to fix this entirely, and make the current default not effected by this flaw, is change the UAC settings security certificate.
Funny that was on of the big selling points of Blu Ray (or was it HD DVD? sorry, I totally forget) that the movie started immediately.
How has that panned out ? 10 minutes searching I can't find anything about it any more, but I may just be missing the exact terms.
Sad but true,
I expect it to be an order of magnitude worse than aeon flux though. :(
The English voices used like nearly all ( Mononoke being a rare exception but the original is still better) seriously didn't match the characters at all.
I can't stand it, the g that is entirely reprasentative of the company doesn't stand out anywhere near clearly enough, the entire thing is just a blob and it makes tracking Google tabs in firefox a nightmare.
The user submitted favicons FTFA by by Hadi Onur Demirsoy, Lucian E. Marin and Yusuf Sevgen are all considerably better.
On Vista, for just the current user when the auto play options pop up there's an 'advanced options' (or similar, I forget the exact wording) link at the bottom, or you can just go to:
Control Panel -> AutoPlay.
Disable 'Use Autoplay for all media and devices' right at the top and you're done. (If your paranoid like me you can then also set all the options to 'Take no action')
To enforce this globally for all users as an admin (XP also AFAIK):
start - run - type 'gpedit.msc' (hit enter, vista requires elevation)
Computer configuration
|_ Administrative Templates
|_ Windows Components
|_ Autoplay Policies
|_ Turn Off Autoplay (double click) select 'Enable' then in the dropdown select 'All Drives' and hit 'OK'
Also apply the same to the same location in 'User Configuration':
User Configuration
|_ Administrative Templates
|_ Windows Components
|_ Autoplay Policies
|_ Turn Off Autoplay (double click) select 'Enable' then in the dropdown select 'All Drives' and hit 'OK'
Check out all the free games packages with D-Fend reloaded, not exactly up-to-date but damn good fun nonetheless D-Fend Reloaded
So you don't have casualty wards in US hospitals then?
I consider the depreciation value of a game quite high actually.
How many would pay $49 for a copy of Crysis today? how about the same for Prey? Quake? DOOM? Frogger? Pong?
Rubbish games don't sell the first time arround.
Brilliant free advertising.
Everyone would have been even more intrigued to see the 'rip off' out of general human curiosity in controversy than if they had seen a regular advertisement, and then found it was in fact a better product.