If I were Sony, I'd put off fixing this exploit for a while and watch PS3 sales go up. Only when sales slow down will I release the fix.
I've read that the PS3 logs the ID's of every bit of software it runs, even offline. So if you've used the backup manager, chances are Sony can detect it when you go online. People are working on hacks to change the ID though.
His player vs player stat says 165/164, and World Events says 138/139. I assume this is a bug/glitch? I don't know anything about WoW so forgive me if this is a silly question.
I don't know much anything about neuromorphic computing and synthetic aperture radar image formation etc, but wouldn't it be cheaper to use GPU's instead? Is there something about these type of computations that make the Cell a better fit? Or maybe it's that PS3s are easier to attach to the existing infrastructure?
Someone please explain.
It actually comes from the Latin "dictum meum pactum" meaning "My word is my bond" which is the motto of the London Stock Exchange. It was shortened to "word is bond", which means "I speak the truth". It was also used as a question ("Word is bond?"), usually indicating a feeling of disbelief. Naturally, the phrase got shortened even further to just "word". So a typical conversation went something like:
"I made $12k last week"
"Woah...word?"
"Word"
These days saying "word" in response to a statement means "What you said is true", which implies "I agree".
I think this is a fantastic idea and I hope more companies start doing it (provided they let you opt out, of course). I'm not really interested in the player profile aspect of it as much as the potential for balance/tweaking though.
For fighting games like Street Fighter IV etc, it's great because companies can use the data to help rebalance the characters. For example, if they notice that one character loses disproportionately to another, they can tweak the balance slightly in the next iteration (or even patch).
The ability to upload replays to the XBL/GFWL/PSN networks is also a great idea, because if the replay files are just a bit of metadata with stored inputs, game companies should be able to easily replay these games at high speed (by disabling audio/video) and capturing the resulting data.
Botnets make this procedure much simpler, and I suspect people buying these phones have access to banking data harvested by botnets. If they have the account details, they can just login themselves. No need to monitor the internet connection etc. Just spoof the number, and the code will get sent to you instead of the account holder. No flags will be raised.
there is a substantially large group of pricky nerds that are in favor of linux for ideological reasons (and nationalist pride, suse started here).
Interestingly enough, Ubuntu started in South Africa but I've never seen it preloaded on a system at any of the computer stores I've been to. In fact, I don't really know anyone who runs Ubuntu as their primary OS.
The fact is, we spend 500B a year on the military so that when we do fight people, it is a massacre. We do not want our guys to die. We want their guys to die.
You shouldn't want their guys to die, you should want their guys to surrender.
IMO, this is more of an indication of the narrow-mindedness of the general Xbox-Live demographic than of Microsoft. Microsoft is a business, so it's likely that this person got banned because of a huge number of complaints from their customer base. They don't want to lose business, so they appeased their customers.
If however they didn't receive all that many complaints (comparatively speaking), then I think someone needs to take serious legal action against them if possible. It may sound a bit hypocritical or contradictory to hold them responsible in this case, but this to me sounds like a problem with the mindset of the general population, and Microsoft can't really be held responsible for that.
Windows 7 comes bundled with Interix, in the from of SUA (Subsystem for running Unix Applications). KSH and CSH come standard, but you can install bash using "pkg_update -L bash" (after installing the package installer).
And yes, you can run Unix commands from the Windows console or Unix shell.
He may be right, but the market is usually the deciding factor. If standardisation means more people will adopt Linux, then developers will probably make more compromises.
Cowboy Bebop is decent, but like most other anime is very derivative and features convoluted storylines
There is much more to Cowboy Bebop than the story. That's what makes it so good. In one review I read it said Shinichiro Watanabe wanted to try something completely different: "jazz with an anime soundtrack" (paraphrased). In other words, the overall look and feel is just as if not more important than the story. Watanabe did the same thing with Samurai Champloo.
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, is doubting even in the slightest that Saddam did this
Guess again.
But the truth is, all we know for certain is that Kurds were bombarded with poison gas that day at Halabja. We cannot say with any certainty that Iraqi chemical weapons killed the Kurds. This is not the only distortion in the Halabja story.
I am in a position to know because, as the Central Intelligence Agency's senior political analyst on Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, and as a professor at the Army War College from 1988 to 2000, I was privy to much of the classified material that flowed through Washington having to do with the Persian Gulf. In addition, I headed a 1991 Army investigation into how the Iraqis would fight a war against the United States; the classified version of the report went into great detail on the Halabja affair.
I take a walk during lunchtime every day, and when I get back to the office I take the stairs up to the 15th floor.
It does wonders for your stamina (and buttocks).
I once created a group called "I'm always late for work!!!"
I deleted it after my boss added me as a friend. I don't think he minded though. He was always late for work as well:-)
No, it doesn't. And when you do get it running, the performance is less than spectacular, depending on your hardware configuration.
Contrary to popular belief, OS X doesn't simply "just work". In fact, I have to buy a new piece of hardware just to get it to install (unsupported microcontroller).
This is pointless. It requires much less effort to tweak Vista so that it runs faster than XP than to tweak Server 2008 that it runs just as fast as XP. Any windows geek would have been able to tell you that.
I'm running XP Pro at work and Vista Ultimate with at home and my Vista machine is definitely snappier. It did take me a few days to get it to that state though, mostly because of research.
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If I were Sony, I'd put off fixing this exploit for a while and watch PS3 sales go up. Only when sales slow down will I release the fix. I've read that the PS3 logs the ID's of every bit of software it runs, even offline. So if you've used the backup manager, chances are Sony can detect it when you go online. People are working on hacks to change the ID though.
Scientists should start working with statisticians.
His player vs player stat says 165/164, and World Events says 138/139. I assume this is a bug/glitch? I don't know anything about WoW so forgive me if this is a silly question.
I don't know much anything about neuromorphic computing and synthetic aperture radar image formation etc, but wouldn't it be cheaper to use GPU's instead? Is there something about these type of computations that make the Cell a better fit? Or maybe it's that PS3s are easier to attach to the existing infrastructure?
Someone please explain.
http://www.rapdict.org/Word_is_bond
It actually comes from the Latin "dictum meum pactum" meaning "My word is my bond" which is the motto of the London Stock Exchange. It was shortened to "word is bond", which means "I speak the truth". It was also used as a question ("Word is bond?"), usually indicating a feeling of disbelief. Naturally, the phrase got shortened even further to just "word". So a typical conversation went something like:
"I made $12k last week"
"Woah...word?"
"Word"
These days saying "word" in response to a statement means "What you said is true", which implies "I agree".
I think this is a fantastic idea and I hope more companies start doing it (provided they let you opt out, of course). I'm not really interested in the player profile aspect of it as much as the potential for balance/tweaking though.
For fighting games like Street Fighter IV etc, it's great because companies can use the data to help rebalance the characters. For example, if they notice that one character loses disproportionately to another, they can tweak the balance slightly in the next iteration (or even patch).
The ability to upload replays to the XBL/GFWL/PSN networks is also a great idea, because if the replay files are just a bit of metadata with stored inputs, game companies should be able to easily replay these games at high speed (by disabling audio/video) and capturing the resulting data.
At the end of the day, data is still king.
Botnets make this procedure much simpler, and I suspect people buying these phones have access to banking data harvested by botnets. If they have the account details, they can just login themselves. No need to monitor the internet connection etc. Just spoof the number, and the code will get sent to you instead of the account holder. No flags will be raised.
there is a substantially large group of pricky nerds that are in favor of linux for ideological reasons (and nationalist pride, suse started here).
Interestingly enough, Ubuntu started in South Africa but I've never seen it preloaded on a system at any of the computer stores I've been to. In fact, I don't really know anyone who runs Ubuntu as their primary OS.
The fact is, we spend 500B a year on the military so that when we do fight people, it is a massacre. We do not want our guys to die. We want their guys to die.
You shouldn't want their guys to die, you should want their guys to surrender.
Don't forget SUA, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_Services_for_UNIX
IMO, this is more of an indication of the narrow-mindedness of the general Xbox-Live demographic than of Microsoft. Microsoft is a business, so it's likely that this person got banned because of a huge number of complaints from their customer base. They don't want to lose business, so they appeased their customers.
If however they didn't receive all that many complaints (comparatively speaking), then I think someone needs to take serious legal action against them if possible. It may sound a bit hypocritical or contradictory to hold them responsible in this case, but this to me sounds like a problem with the mindset of the general population, and Microsoft can't really be held responsible for that.
Windows 7 comes bundled with Interix, in the from of SUA (Subsystem for running Unix Applications). KSH and CSH come standard, but you can install bash using "pkg_update -L bash" (after installing the package installer).
And yes, you can run Unix commands from the Windows console or Unix shell.
He may be right, but the market is usually the deciding factor. If standardisation means more people will adopt Linux, then developers will probably make more compromises.
Do "Dvorak" type keyboards exist for languages beside English?
Cowboy Bebop is decent, but like most other anime is very derivative and features convoluted storylines
There is much more to Cowboy Bebop than the story. That's what makes it so good. In one review I read it said Shinichiro Watanabe wanted to try something completely different: "jazz with an anime soundtrack" (paraphrased). In other words, the overall look and feel is just as if not more important than the story. Watanabe did the same thing with Samurai Champloo.
Reminds me of OO.org and MS Office. Or even the Linux desktop GUI and Windows.
Guess again.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E7DD1638F932A05752C0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print
Many of Chrome's shortcuts come from Firefox. Press Ctrl-J to display the download tab.
It's not quite the same though. Americans in general (and in fact, most of the West) do not place as much emphasis on respect as the Japanese do.
I take a walk during lunchtime every day, and when I get back to the office I take the stairs up to the 15th floor. It does wonders for your stamina (and buttocks).
Why is it that you think people are entitled to food or clothing?
What if being productive with pirated goods enables someone to buy food and/or clothing? Would you be supportive of it?
I once created a group called "I'm always late for work!!!" :-)
I deleted it after my boss added me as a friend. I don't think he minded though. He was always late for work as well
No, it doesn't. And when you do get it running, the performance is less than spectacular, depending on your hardware configuration.
Contrary to popular belief, OS X doesn't simply "just work". In fact, I have to buy a new piece of hardware just to get it to install (unsupported microcontroller).
Furthermore, Visual Studio does not run on OS X.
This is pointless. It requires much less effort to tweak Vista so that it runs faster than XP than to tweak Server 2008 that it runs just as fast as XP. Any windows geek would have been able to tell you that. I'm running XP Pro at work and Vista Ultimate with at home and my Vista machine is definitely snappier. It did take me a few days to get it to that state though, mostly because of research.