It may well be that someone inside Microsoft deliberately leaked such a rumor to test the waters.
Maybe for the always-on connection, but not the used-game lockout. That's just the submitter trying to sensationalize using a rumor from over a year ago (no, really, the link is a slashdot summary from over a year ago).
That won't fix the issue of not being able to installing games when you upgrade your PC or OS. When Steam disappears, your games will only work until your system needs an upgrade. Then you're SOL unless Valve will distribute installation images with those offline play patches.
This is probably the best suggestion. If you ever have reported robocalls, you know that they refuse to investigate the complaint unless you appeal the initial "nothing to see here, move along citizen" cookie cutter response.
It's the screwy way Windows does network trust. The "Internet Options" from the control panel is actually IE's preferences. This is also the place you set up trusted zones, allowing network applications or applications downloaded from external sources to run on the OS.
Unfortunately, we don't know where exactly the performance difference lies.
The test details are very, very light (some code would've been nice). However, just looking at the details we have, I see two issues with the C# testing in test #2 -
1) The tests were pushed through the MVC4 Framework - this is an additional layer of unneeded overhead and processing for the C# tests. It's not mentioned if the Java requests were piped through an MVC engine.
2) "I can have a servlet return some HTML, or I can return the results of a JSP page. These are analogous to the C# controller and View approaches, respectively." - This is incorrect. Servlets would be analogous to writing an HTTP Module, and JSP would be the equivalent to writing an ASPX page/HTTP Handler.
These two problems probably stem from the author's unfamiliarity with C# on IIS outside of an MVC environment.
It seems there's a new "Mark of the Beast" every decade or so. Back when I was a kid and went to church every week with my parents, I remember reading an article in one of the missals how bank account numbers are the "Mark of the Beast" - and this was 20 years ago.
The problem is that my mother's views of freedom of religions, speech, or dozens of other things are all usually thought of inherent human rights and freedoms. The computer is simply thought of as a tool to do a job.
This is the difficulty of getting people on board with software philosophies - you're trying to get them to change tools based purely on ideological reasons. This becomes even more difficult when there's a learning curve, especially when they think the old tool does the job well enough ("If it ain't broke...").
If people stop buying Sony, you bet your ass their competitors will start doing something different.
The thing is, Sony isn't the first company to attempt to kill used sales, and their competitors' sales haven't slowed outside of any norm.
The new Xbox has been rumored to have functionality that disallows used games (reported just about a year ago). PC games are just as bad - Bethesda didn't sell me a copy of Fallout: New Vegas, they sold me a Steam key with a DVD, meaning I can't resell that disk. With Activision, I think we all know how D3 isn't capable of resale.
EA's been trying to hurt resale market for years, but hasn't done a full "non-working game" yet. They've been trying to get a piece of the pie with their "Project Ten Dollar." They usually lock of a piece of the game with a one-time code, purchasable for $10 on used games. Then again, Battlefield 3 without multiplayer is hardly considered game.
There is a lot of case law describing consumer sales and what one is allowed to do with what one purchases, including resale of said goods
That concept's been long gone for a while in gaming. In terms of digital, I can't sell anything I've already purchased (Steam, XBL, nor PSN). In terms of physical retail, publishers have been trying to stop second-hand sales for a while - Sony's not the first. Usually, they'll include a key that unlocks some or all of the game.
EA calls it "Project Ten Dollar" because buying a new pass costs you an additional $10 (Battlefield 3 only gives you the single player campaign without the pass). Activision outright tells you that the software isn't sold, just licensed to the account associated with the key (my DVD of Diablo 3 is a drink coaster for everyone else). Even my physical copy of Fallout: New Vegas turned out to just be a Steam key with a copy on the disc.
Primaries aren't as honest as you think. Games can (and are) played to help sway votes in a certain way.
Closed primaries disallow the general public from choosing a candidate, and only registered party members are permitted to vote. If the party wants a certain candidate to gain ground, but feel the general public will not vote in their favor, they have a closed primary vote.
The flip side of this is poisoning the well. The opposition party votes in an open primary to attempt manipulating a candidate's popularity. They attempt to create false competition, or get a less-than-favorable candidate elected. This trick can also be used by the party itself if an unpopular party choice is winning.
Then there's the actual candidates themselves. Any real choice of candidates has been far removed for a while. The only candidates who end up in a national primary are ones who've already committed to the party's views and demonstrated their willingness to "play the game." Anyone with a real chance of winning with moderate party views or won't cooperate with lobbyists were pruned out of the process on the local/state level. Candidates like Paul or Huntsman aren't seriously considered contenders (reflected by both the parties and the media).
So no, those primaries are not the bastions of democracy you think they are. I would say, in my region, the highest level of government I see is probably sparsely at the County-level election, but mostly the town/city level. Admittedly, I'm from a fairly skewed state for this (Illinois), so I'm probably a bit more pessimistic than most. It's possible other regions might get more honest elections up to the state level.
If you ever want a real sobering realization on the subject, befriend someone in your state's official party committees. They can tell you, to a much more detailed extent, the games that are played with elections to ensure certain candidates never get anywhere, while others get groomed for higher offices.
Im not sure its really possible to "steal" BSD code.
It sure is. You must leave the copyright notices and acknowledgement intact. In the event only a binary form is distributed, it must be present somewhere in the application/documentation (usually you find it buried in help documentation somewhere). Also, depending on the BSD license version, you also can't use the author/organization for marketing/endorsing/promotion without their permission.
Basically, the BSD licenses isn't so much dictating what can be done with the code, but to require giving credit to the programmer(s) who wrote the code. Well, besides the boilerplate "as-is" liability waiver in every license.
Told her that I didn't have a phone, she said she couldn't ring it up.
Since I'm lazy enough not to walk across the street, I usually just make one up or use an old number (such as a place I lived 10 years ago). Similarly, if I need to use "my" address for something, such as checking ISP availability, I'll use my neighbor's address. They're close enough to find out if I can get service or not while shopping around.
You're not the first comment to suggest legal action, but here's my thought: Perhaps there is something going on that legitimately got them on the list.
The summary states they're an ISP, so I don't think it's out of the question that a few customers picked up some malware. The malware might be sending out the spam that gets them blacklisted. The might use non-static addresses, which could've led to the whole block getting flagged. If you take them to court, this fact will not only ensure you lose, but might even get you counter-sued.
I only mention this because this exact thing happened at a previous job (the malware part, not the legal part). The summary doesn't state if they've been monitoring all traffic to ensure it's spam free.
I disagree. It's way too easy for me to injure or break my hand by simply throwing a punch. Not to mention injuring my wrist. And afterward, the full use of my hand might not be the same (you even mentioned the loss of dexterity as a result of your boxing).
These lead me to believe that hands weren't intended for punching stuff. There's way too much technique required so I don't hurt myself (and even technique isn't enough, which is where the taping comes in).
In a corporate environment replying to html mail and altering a table you have received to pass on an edited table is a standard requirement.
I have never seen this happen. If people are passing data around, I typically receive Excel files, not tables within HTML.
If you are sending mail to a person who has vision problems then changing fonts and colours can be very valuable too
This should most definitely be done in the recipient's client, not in the message's composition. Not to mention other accessibility problems in which the HTML content isn't even used - their accessibility software uses the plain text version of the message.
When did being utterly devoid of courage and constantly afraid of every single thing under the sun became a virtue?
When it endangers the lives of my customers. Look, I'm all for stories about heroic efforts of uptime, but this company had no disaster plan. They're lucky they're not in the middle of a lawsuit for injury, or worse, wrongful death right now
Actually, the majority of hits to the head in hockey are illegal hits, and usually end with a player getting suspended. The NHL started taking a harder stance against hits to the head and concussions a few years back.
These people annoy me more than rabid moon landing denyers.
As well they should be. Moon landing deniers are a fun debate about government conspiracies. However, at the end of the day, nobody's affected by their belief that we never made it to the moon. Antivaxers, on the other hand, can kill other, non-antivax people with their misguided beliefs. The second you're delusion starts harming people, there's a huge problem.
Their recent redesigns of the consoles don't have the overheating issues of the release designs. Even before the case redesign, the internal changes had fixed the heat issues. The only real issue was the noise (for the record, the fat PS3s were louder if you were lucky and got on of the "Chinese fan" batch like me). The noise problem was mitigated by letting users do disc installs onto the HDD since the loudest part of the Xbox is the jet-engine based DVD-ROM drive.
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It may well be that someone inside Microsoft deliberately leaked such a rumor to test the waters.
Maybe for the always-on connection, but not the used-game lockout. That's just the submitter trying to sensationalize using a rumor from over a year ago (no, really, the link is a slashdot summary from over a year ago).
That won't fix the issue of not being able to installing games when you upgrade your PC or OS. When Steam disappears, your games will only work until your system needs an upgrade. Then you're SOL unless Valve will distribute installation images with those offline play patches.
It was 4-5 years ago, but I reported it wherever ftc.gov told me to (it was an online form).
This is probably the best suggestion. If you ever have reported robocalls, you know that they refuse to investigate the complaint unless you appeal the initial "nothing to see here, move along citizen" cookie cutter response.
It's the screwy way Windows does network trust. The "Internet Options" from the control panel is actually IE's preferences. This is also the place you set up trusted zones, allowing network applications or applications downloaded from external sources to run on the OS.
Like I said, it's screwy.
Unfortunately, we don't know where exactly the performance difference lies.
The test details are very, very light (some code would've been nice). However, just looking at the details we have, I see two issues with the C# testing in test #2 -
1) The tests were pushed through the MVC4 Framework - this is an additional layer of unneeded overhead and processing for the C# tests. It's not mentioned if the Java requests were piped through an MVC engine.
2) "I can have a servlet return some HTML, or I can return the results of a JSP page. These are analogous to the C# controller and View approaches, respectively." - This is incorrect. Servlets would be analogous to writing an HTTP Module, and JSP would be the equivalent to writing an ASPX page/HTTP Handler.
These two problems probably stem from the author's unfamiliarity with C# on IIS outside of an MVC environment.
It seems there's a new "Mark of the Beast" every decade or so. Back when I was a kid and went to church every week with my parents, I remember reading an article in one of the missals how bank account numbers are the "Mark of the Beast" - and this was 20 years ago.
The problem is that my mother's views of freedom of religions, speech, or dozens of other things are all usually thought of inherent human rights and freedoms. The computer is simply thought of as a tool to do a job.
This is the difficulty of getting people on board with software philosophies - you're trying to get them to change tools based purely on ideological reasons. This becomes even more difficult when there's a learning curve, especially when they think the old tool does the job well enough ("If it ain't broke...").
If people stop buying Sony, you bet your ass their competitors will start doing something different.
The thing is, Sony isn't the first company to attempt to kill used sales, and their competitors' sales haven't slowed outside of any norm.
The new Xbox has been rumored to have functionality that disallows used games (reported just about a year ago). PC games are just as bad - Bethesda didn't sell me a copy of Fallout: New Vegas, they sold me a Steam key with a DVD, meaning I can't resell that disk. With Activision, I think we all know how D3 isn't capable of resale.
EA's been trying to hurt resale market for years, but hasn't done a full "non-working game" yet. They've been trying to get a piece of the pie with their "Project Ten Dollar." They usually lock of a piece of the game with a one-time code, purchasable for $10 on used games. Then again, Battlefield 3 without multiplayer is hardly considered game.
There is a lot of case law describing consumer sales and what one is allowed to do with what one purchases, including resale of said goods
That concept's been long gone for a while in gaming. In terms of digital, I can't sell anything I've already purchased (Steam, XBL, nor PSN). In terms of physical retail, publishers have been trying to stop second-hand sales for a while - Sony's not the first. Usually, they'll include a key that unlocks some or all of the game.
EA calls it "Project Ten Dollar" because buying a new pass costs you an additional $10 (Battlefield 3 only gives you the single player campaign without the pass). Activision outright tells you that the software isn't sold, just licensed to the account associated with the key (my DVD of Diablo 3 is a drink coaster for everyone else). Even my physical copy of Fallout: New Vegas turned out to just be a Steam key with a copy on the disc.
Primaries aren't as honest as you think. Games can (and are) played to help sway votes in a certain way.
Closed primaries disallow the general public from choosing a candidate, and only registered party members are permitted to vote. If the party wants a certain candidate to gain ground, but feel the general public will not vote in their favor, they have a closed primary vote.
The flip side of this is poisoning the well. The opposition party votes in an open primary to attempt manipulating a candidate's popularity. They attempt to create false competition, or get a less-than-favorable candidate elected. This trick can also be used by the party itself if an unpopular party choice is winning.
Then there's the actual candidates themselves. Any real choice of candidates has been far removed for a while. The only candidates who end up in a national primary are ones who've already committed to the party's views and demonstrated their willingness to "play the game." Anyone with a real chance of winning with moderate party views or won't cooperate with lobbyists were pruned out of the process on the local/state level. Candidates like Paul or Huntsman aren't seriously considered contenders (reflected by both the parties and the media).
So no, those primaries are not the bastions of democracy you think they are. I would say, in my region, the highest level of government I see is probably sparsely at the County-level election, but mostly the town/city level. Admittedly, I'm from a fairly skewed state for this (Illinois), so I'm probably a bit more pessimistic than most. It's possible other regions might get more honest elections up to the state level.
If you ever want a real sobering realization on the subject, befriend someone in your state's official party committees. They can tell you, to a much more detailed extent, the games that are played with elections to ensure certain candidates never get anywhere, while others get groomed for higher offices.
Im not sure its really possible to "steal" BSD code.
It sure is. You must leave the copyright notices and acknowledgement intact. In the event only a binary form is distributed, it must be present somewhere in the application/documentation (usually you find it buried in help documentation somewhere). Also, depending on the BSD license version, you also can't use the author/organization for marketing/endorsing/promotion without their permission.
Basically, the BSD licenses isn't so much dictating what can be done with the code, but to require giving credit to the programmer(s) who wrote the code. Well, besides the boilerplate "as-is" liability waiver in every license.
Told her that I didn't have a phone, she said she couldn't ring it up.
Since I'm lazy enough not to walk across the street, I usually just make one up or use an old number (such as a place I lived 10 years ago). Similarly, if I need to use "my" address for something, such as checking ISP availability, I'll use my neighbor's address. They're close enough to find out if I can get service or not while shopping around.
You're not the first comment to suggest legal action, but here's my thought: Perhaps there is something going on that legitimately got them on the list.
The summary states they're an ISP, so I don't think it's out of the question that a few customers picked up some malware. The malware might be sending out the spam that gets them blacklisted. The might use non-static addresses, which could've led to the whole block getting flagged. If you take them to court, this fact will not only ensure you lose, but might even get you counter-sued.
I only mention this because this exact thing happened at a previous job (the malware part, not the legal part). The summary doesn't state if they've been monitoring all traffic to ensure it's spam free.
I disagree. It's way too easy for me to injure or break my hand by simply throwing a punch. Not to mention injuring my wrist. And afterward, the full use of my hand might not be the same (you even mentioned the loss of dexterity as a result of your boxing).
These lead me to believe that hands weren't intended for punching stuff. There's way too much technique required so I don't hurt myself (and even technique isn't enough, which is where the taping comes in).
Skype video calls from the couch.
*hit*....you are dead....*hit* you are dead again.
Remember, this is how Blizzard perceives difficulty. It'll be like playing unpatched Inferno all over again!
In a corporate environment replying to html mail and altering a table you have received to pass on an edited table is a standard requirement.
I have never seen this happen. If people are passing data around, I typically receive Excel files, not tables within HTML.
If you are sending mail to a person who has vision problems then changing fonts and colours can be very valuable too
This should most definitely be done in the recipient's client, not in the message's composition. Not to mention other accessibility problems in which the HTML content isn't even used - their accessibility software uses the plain text version of the message.
When did being utterly devoid of courage and constantly afraid of every single thing under the sun became a virtue?
When it endangers the lives of my customers. Look, I'm all for stories about heroic efforts of uptime, but this company had no disaster plan. They're lucky they're not in the middle of a lawsuit for injury, or worse, wrongful death right now
ice hockey...an excuse to keep smashing skulls
Actually, the majority of hits to the head in hockey are illegal hits, and usually end with a player getting suspended. The NHL started taking a harder stance against hits to the head and concussions a few years back.
These people annoy me more than rabid moon landing denyers.
As well they should be. Moon landing deniers are a fun debate about government conspiracies. However, at the end of the day, nobody's affected by their belief that we never made it to the moon. Antivaxers, on the other hand, can kill other, non-antivax people with their misguided beliefs. The second you're delusion starts harming people, there's a huge problem.
If you want to go that route, every program written in C can be condensed down to 1 line. Or any language where whitespace isn't significant.
Big business. IBM got out of the retail computer industry when they sold off that part of the business to Lenovo.
Their recent redesigns of the consoles don't have the overheating issues of the release designs. Even before the case redesign, the internal changes had fixed the heat issues. The only real issue was the noise (for the record, the fat PS3s were louder if you were lucky and got on of the "Chinese fan" batch like me). The noise problem was mitigated by letting users do disc installs onto the HDD since the loudest part of the Xbox is the jet-engine based DVD-ROM drive.
It's a 'G'. We say girl, gun, gimp, giga... not jirl, jun, jimp, jigger.
We also say giant, giraffe, and Geoff, not "guy-ant," "ger-aff," and "Go-eff"