It's great that the game is getting an update, but that innocuous looking 'removed host name from ranked match server browser' means it is now even more difficult to hook up with friends for a Ranked match. Boo, Epic. Boo.
Well, I suppose that leaves little doubt of what kind of player Zonk is.
Which is, funny enough another blog. Not just any blog, but a blog with a single post by one "James Kyton" who doesn't appear to have any profile on the internet (pseudonym).
While I have no other reason to question the integrity of the blogger, or the uhm... other blogger. My bullshit detector is hovering at about '9'. I am a cynical man, and this new business of establishing credibility through a network of blogs ("gross" syndication might be too generous) instead of a genuine original credible content rubs me the wrong way. There are a lot (most?) of blogs out there with no other purpose than to serve as an adsense speed bump between you and what you actually want to read. A great many of which don't even lead you there, but to a labyrinth of plagiarism and advertisements that if you are diligent enough to follow the long trail, end at a wholly non-credible source (if they source at all).
Yes, it is the second time I posted this, but since that thread was off topic and you are addressing the issue directly... forgive me.
Moreover, it's blog spam, and not just some excited reader. The author submitted it (which I don't have a problem with necessarily) but the article in question is more of a speed bump to the real content. Which is, funny enough another blog. Not just any blog, but a blog with a single post by one "James Kyton" who doesn't appear to have any profile on the internet (pseudonym).
While I have no reason to doubt either the blogger, or the uhm... other blogger. My bullshit detector is hovering at about '9'. It wouldn't be the first time someone sourced themselves in the pursuit of adsense dollars. Or just to lend themselves some credibility for that matter.
The matter gets worse when they want you to install software to download. Not only do I need the iTunes client to download from Apple, but now I have to install a Yahoo client to download a non-DRM MP3, and I'll probably have to go into the registry to keep it from showing up in my "tray" at startup.
Use emusic instead? No client or DRM.
What will Sony and Skype want me to do? Who knows. But if they're trying to attract new customers, my advice would be to try and make it easier.
Don't underestimate Sony's ability to fail. This isn't exactly their first attempt at a "music store" or a whole lot of other things? It seems that when one of their divisions wants to produce a new product the MBA's from all their other divisions swarm it and synergize... presumably with baseball bats.
Maybe the Skype founders have something up their sleeve, but if you are playing middle man to someone else's content you can bet there are plenty of other people who will work harder for less money.
It is in fact in the FTC's domain and is already regulated. The fuss is that the FCC has, after years of appeals, roused itself enough to talk about the idea of doing something about it.
I think it's worth mentioning as well that Craig et. al. make mountains of money. Just not as much as they could if they exploited their product to the hilt. Part of why they got where they are is by not doing those things.
Can't help but agree. Especially when the GP alludes to but won't actually say what the problem was (though it should be obvious). I've downloaded a few nocd cracks in my day, but I don't complain when it breaks shit, and certianly don't expect it to patch.
As an asside, I (well usually) just don't play games like this before the first expansion comes out. Mostly because I have no faith in the PC (and more recently the XBox) developers ability to produce a finished product. Newly released games just have too many flaws to be worth while. With games like this, the first expansion is usually the best indicator of when to buy. Others I have a one patch minimum, if players say it's really that good. Usually two or more. Often by the time it is "fixed" retailers no longer stock it and it's easy to find used.
I pay less, I don't reward lousy industry practices, and I can actually enjoy it.
I get nervous about people who make claims like >the OUM memory state can be written more than 10 trillion times unless they've tested it to a trillion cycles, which is just possible.
Considering the size and quantity of their prototype I'd say your skepticism is warranted. It's probably more likely derived from theory and marketing rather than a real world test.
Or...
I'll believe it when the MFR's warranty bears that claim.
Natural monopolies are an entirely different animal.
You can do something to relieve your hate right now, and it's trivial to do so. Just change your bookmark to yahoo, or msn, or any of the dozzens of other equivalent offerings.
Of course that pretty much blows your "monopoly" argument out of the water doesn't it.
I think it's pretty obvious that they meant to compare ODF to the primary MS Office format. The analogy is weak, but there is no such thing as a perfect analogy. You either try to understand what someone is communicating or not. Confusing the issue while it may be satisfying for you, does nothing to diminish the point.
The point is ODF drives Microsoft to improve their product as Zune pushes Apple to improve theirs. A sucessful Zune is not necessarily a win for DRM. But that is really beside the point... Which is my point.
Depends on the device. Most that I have seen are just a print recognizer that inputs your password for you. That is, you spend 1 second compared to 2 filling in the password box. A neat trick, but doesn't do anything for security. Even if a system used the print itself, you're just trading a few characters for an image.
You could make the argument that they weaken security since the password has to be stored twice. And in many cases if you know what you are doing, a good print (good enough to fool the reader) is easier to get than watching someone type in a password or installing a key logger.
Encripted login would have prevented this particular breech.
Certainly other systems exist, but what I've seen isn't impressive.
is a closed platform music player with DRM so restrictive that your entire music collection can auto-delete itself because you forgot to pay your monthly bill...
Uhm nothing gets auto-deleted, the "all you can download" files stop working. And they'll work again as soon as you renew your subscription. Just as you agreed when you signed up. Word is, iTundes may adopt a similar model soon. I can't wait, because for the cost of a CD I am spared buying at least one lousy album a month. Nevermind all of the awesome tunes I wouldn't have heard (and may not have purchased anyway) if I had to pay per-track/album.
If you don't like that, buy the track/album ala carte. Those never expire. I'll certainly agree that the DRM is more opressive on Microsoft's platform, but some perspective is in order here.
And the Zune/iPod/Office/ODF comparison is about market competition. It has nothing to do with their individual traits.
In fact, when I posted this comment there were 10 iPod moddels in the overall top 25 (not just electronics) and no Zune. Certainly this changes regularly, but come on... There are even 2 other players in that first page list. The black Zune doesn't even show up until the third page (63). You have to look up the others directly... Brown 285, and White 484
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It's great that the game is getting an update, but that innocuous looking 'removed host name from ranked match server browser' means it is now even more difficult to hook up with friends for a Ranked match. Boo, Epic. Boo.
Well, I suppose that leaves little doubt of what kind of player Zonk is.
He is in front of, not necessarily playing a game. Everyone knows there's little else to do with a PS3 than play Blu-Ray movies on them.
There are some "games" available for it. But as of yet there are no "games" that don't require quotation marks.
Actually, since Google is involved... that woudl be giPeople.
Drafting GI's? Nothing ever changes does it.
At least we'll be able to do a spotlight search on Google Earth for WMD's.
Which is, funny enough another blog. Not just any blog, but a blog with a single post by one "James Kyton" who doesn't appear to have any profile on the internet (pseudonym).
While I have no other reason to question the integrity of the blogger, or the uhm... other blogger. My bullshit detector is hovering at about '9'. I am a cynical man, and this new business of establishing credibility through a network of blogs ("gross" syndication might be too generous) instead of a genuine original credible content rubs me the wrong way. There are a lot (most?) of blogs out there with no other purpose than to serve as an adsense speed bump between you and what you actually want to read. A great many of which don't even lead you there, but to a labyrinth of plagiarism and advertisements that if you are diligent enough to follow the long trail, end at a wholly non-credible source (if they source at all).
Yes, it is the second time I posted this, but since that thread was off topic and you are addressing the issue directly... forgive me.
Moreover, it's blog spam, and not just some excited reader. The author submitted it (which I don't have a problem with necessarily) but the article in question is more of a speed bump to the real content. Which is, funny enough another blog. Not just any blog, but a blog with a single post by one "James Kyton" who doesn't appear to have any profile on the internet (pseudonym).
While I have no reason to doubt either the blogger, or the uhm... other blogger. My bullshit detector is hovering at about '9'. It wouldn't be the first time someone sourced themselves in the pursuit of adsense dollars. Or just to lend themselves some credibility for that matter.
Use emusic instead? No client or DRM.
What will Sony and Skype want me to do? Who knows. But if they're trying to attract new customers, my advice would be to try and make it easier.
Don't underestimate Sony's ability to fail. This isn't exactly their first attempt at a "music store" or a whole lot of other things? It seems that when one of their divisions wants to produce a new product the MBA's from all their other divisions swarm it and synergize... presumably with baseball bats.
Maybe the Skype founders have something up their sleeve, but if you are playing middle man to someone else's content you can bet there are plenty of other people who will work harder for less money.
Wouldn't this be bigger?
In the Yo Momma category, yes that would be much bigger.
Hey now, we don't want the poor fella to get caught.
Thanks for the information.
I think this is a huge success for them and hopefully will do much to improve Microsoft's standing there...
That said, here's some perspective on this exciting news.
I agree.
But since they asked, you might as well think big.
It is in fact in the FTC's domain and is already regulated. The fuss is that the FCC has, after years of appeals, roused itself enough to talk about the idea of doing something about it.
I think it's worth mentioning as well that Craig et. al. make mountains of money. Just not as much as they could if they exploited their product to the hilt. Part of why they got where they are is by not doing those things.
Can't help but agree. Especially when the GP alludes to but won't actually say what the problem was (though it should be obvious).
I've downloaded a few nocd cracks in my day, but I don't complain when it breaks shit, and certianly don't expect it to patch.
As an asside, I (well usually) just don't play games like this before the first expansion comes out. Mostly because I have no faith in the PC (and more recently the XBox) developers ability to produce a finished product. Newly released games just have too many flaws to be worth while. With games like this, the first expansion is usually the best indicator of when to buy. Others I have a one patch minimum, if players say it's really that good. Usually two or more. Often by the time it is "fixed" retailers no longer stock it and it's easy to find used.
I pay less, I don't reward lousy industry practices, and I can actually enjoy it.
I get nervous about people who make claims like
>the OUM memory state can be written more than 10 trillion times
unless they've tested it to a trillion cycles, which is just possible.
Considering the size and quantity of their prototype I'd say your skepticism is warranted. It's probably more likely derived from theory and marketing rather than a real world test.
Or...
I'll believe it when the MFR's warranty bears that claim.
Natural monopolies are an entirely different animal.
You can do something to relieve your hate right now, and it's trivial to do so. Just change your bookmark to yahoo, or msn, or any of the dozzens of other equivalent offerings.
Of course that pretty much blows your "monopoly" argument out of the water doesn't it.
Fair use covers the use of short clips in specific circumstances.
Also, copyright infringement is not theft.
I can see we're going to get nowhere here, so I'm going to leave with a simple "bias doesn't mean reporting incorrect facts."
I wouldn't say anything except that you are being moderated insightful on some semantic wordplay that is neither here nor there.
I guess I'm going to leave with a simple "overstating your case is a sure way to loose your credibility"
Xcopy alternatively xxcopy if you're nasty.
Stuff too big? Pipe it into an archiver.
Seriously, proprietary backup applications have been obfuscating and fucking up what these have been doing for years reliably for 99 percent of users.
she knows nothing about the social engineering hazards out there -- email scams, phishing scams, the vast cornucopia of malware...
With the exception of malware, Apple is going to do nothing to help these issues over windows.
I think it's because seniors have highly-developed bullshit filters
Perhaps that is why I keep reading about seniors giving their life savings away to scammers over the phone?
"My bastard kids don't ever vistit. This is bullshit. You can have my money."
I think it's pretty obvious that they meant to compare ODF to the primary MS Office format. The analogy is weak, but there is no such thing as a perfect analogy. You either try to understand what someone is communicating or not. Confusing the issue while it may be satisfying for you, does nothing to diminish the point.
The point is ODF drives Microsoft to improve their product as Zune pushes Apple to improve theirs. A sucessful Zune is not necessarily a win for DRM. But that is really beside the point... Which is my point.
So I am understanding that someone distributed his picture to thwart the security efforts of their own company?
Shit, I'd fire then sue them.
Depends on the device. Most that I have seen are just a print recognizer that inputs your password for you. That is, you spend 1 second compared to 2 filling in the password box. A neat trick, but doesn't do anything for security. Even if a system used the print itself, you're just trading a few characters for an image.
You could make the argument that they weaken security since the password has to be stored twice. And in many cases if you know what you are doing, a good print (good enough to fool the reader) is easier to get than watching someone type in a password or installing a key logger.
Encripted login would have prevented this particular breech.
Certainly other systems exist, but what I've seen isn't impressive.
is a closed platform music player with DRM so restrictive that your entire music collection can auto-delete itself because you forgot to pay your monthly bill...
Uhm nothing gets auto-deleted, the "all you can download" files stop working. And they'll work again as soon as you renew your subscription. Just as you agreed when you signed up. Word is, iTundes may adopt a similar model soon. I can't wait, because for the cost of a CD I am spared buying at least one lousy album a month. Nevermind all of the awesome tunes I wouldn't have heard (and may not have purchased anyway) if I had to pay per-track/album.
If you don't like that, buy the track/album ala carte. Those never expire. I'll certainly agree that the DRM is more opressive on Microsoft's platform, but some perspective is in order here.
And the Zune/iPod/Office/ODF comparison is about market competition. It has nothing to do with their individual traits.
Damn, post *then* drink.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/
Indeed.
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In fact, when I posted this comment there were 10 iPod moddels in the overall top 25 (not just electronics) and no Zune. Certainly this changes regularly, but come on... There are even 2 other players in that first page list. The black Zune doesn't even show up until the third page (63). You have to look up the others directly...
Brown 285, and White 484
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=209024&op=Rep
The real story here is that someone is buying the brown one.
But seriously, maybe it's selling well, but only if you count the first day sales (and not too many more days) does it compete with an iPod.