Well its all an act / business to him. He did his stint on CNN but exploiting fear in liberals is difficult compared to exploiting fear in conservatives. The current liberal market is younger and college level educated. The conservative market are older and although contains college level educated individuals its not as high as the liberal market.
Which market is better to exploit / market fear? A young, highly educated market or a older less-educated market?
As for the act, The Daily Show showed 2 clips, one from his CNN show and one from his FOX NEWS show, they were separated by about 18 months. On CNN he was saying the USA had the worst health care system in the world, but 18 months later he is on FOX NEWS saying its the best health care system in the world. So somehow the USA went from the worst to the best in 18 months with no legislation, reform, or any anything.
We were never asked to pay taxes on them before. Nor is it on the books to pay these taxes. Nor were the businesses I did business with required to collect sales tax. These laws were just enacted. I have no problem going forward them asking for the sales tax, but telling me I owe back taxes is a load of crap.
Amazon thinks Texas is bad? Illinois is trying to get about 6 years back-taxes from online shoppers They want everyone who purchased goods in the past 6 years online to pay back-sales-taxes on those goods. How that is considered legal is amazing.
For others, it's a lifeline to their family and culture from vast distances away. I think we need to be aware of that when we consider just how much affect the internet and facebook has had on the world.
Great story but Facebook is a service offered for free. They don't guarantee you anything that warrants a 500k lawsuit.
The protection this tool offered was designed around the fact that so many people were using it, it'd be impossible to arrest them all. This kinda falls down when there may be 500 Americans on it but just 10 Brits and you're one of the 10.
Even if that number increased their would still be chance of being caught. This is the same thing with the RIAA lawsuits. They couldn't sue everyone but they could sue enough people into scaring the common folk into using legitimate services. This would scare some to not even chance it because they could get caught. Now the difference is that some of these people are savvy enough to find ways to prevent themselves from being caught. Just like with the RIAA, those savvy enough could find alternate sources to those that were actively being monitored but to the non-technical savvy they had to go to legitimate sources.
Comparing today and 30 years ago is like comparing apples to oranges.
I will assume you are talking about DRM on old computer software back when the home computer was not in everyone's home and those who owned them were those that were interested. The harder forms of DRM died because the market was very small and anyone who owned a computer discussed these issues with each other. Also it didn't really die it just wasn't as restrictive and abusive, for example looking up a code in the manual of your legally purchased game.
The problem today with the PS3 or Xbox is that EVERYONE owns them and the market is huge, its not longer "geeks and nerds" who own the hardware, pretty much everyone does. So for the 100 of us on Slashdot that say we wont buy into it, there are 5000 other people who just don't give a damn or have no clue what DRM is and if you explained it to them they still wouldnt care.
The Duke was King back in 1995/1996. Back then I didn't have any form of income being a 12 year old and my folks didn't believe in allowance. I had to rely on some older kids in the neighborhood that would allow me to borrow the install CD's for Duke Nukem, Doom 2, and Quake.
Starting with Doom back in late 94 early 95, I must have spent hours playing it and going over every square inch of the maps. By the time Duke and Quake arrived there was always those discussion among the older kids of which was better. I never understood why Quake was better, no one in the neighborhood was online back then nor could do multiplayer of any form. Between Quake and Duke, the Duke had attitude, character, some depth you felt like you were playing as someone awesome. Quake though was just a man who would grunt every so often, not much different from Doom 2. As for the graphics, sure Quake was 3D in both objects and map but this was early primitive 3D. A decent art team making sprites could outshine 3D graphics back then.
Claiming that he wanted to help AT&T improve its security, he wrote a computer script to extract the data from AT&T and then went public with the information.
Claiming to help? That is a great excuse there. They found a security hole in the system and instead of just reporting it to AT&T they pulled down private information which they did NOT have the right to access. In other words I left my front door unlocked, this doesn't give you the right to go in and snoop around and take my stuff, you CAN however report to me and the newspaper that my door is unlocked. That is why these "hackers" are in trouble. AT&T probably looked at the exploit and then realized not only was there a problem but the people reporting it took private and sensitive information, this then required them to go to the legal system because their liable for this. Most of these major companies have insurance to cover these types of incidents but unless they follow protocol the insurance might not pay out.
Also the article attached to slashdot is missing information. They also gave the private information to Gawker.
A few days ago there were comments on Slashdot on how they will keep probing at making user data more visible to applications. When they go too far they will take a step back and wait it out to try again.
The decision follows feedback from users that the sharing of data process wasn't clearly explained and criticism from security firms that the feature was ripe for abuse.
So basically they will just wait another few months, have a better explanation(an added sentence), and try again.
It really is a shame what Facebook has become. I joined back in 2005 when you had to register your account to a university with a university email address. Not many people had it, it felt like a unique little club that only a limited number of people could get into. The security was better in the sense that you had almost full control over anything anyone could see.
But now anyone can have a FB page from your grandmother to a company, it lost that unique feeling of being part of a club that was closed to outsiders.
I sanitized my account about 2 years ago with fake information except for my name and two photos. When they released the ability to backup your account I tried it and to my surprise all that was left was my sanitized information. Could old photos and posts be in their system? Yeah, but nothing that could really be used against me, although others that just posted whatever they wanted will not fair so well.
Those are probably the knee-jerk responses from short term investors or those who take any bad news as GTFO out of that stock ASAP. Anyone who has invested a decent amount of capital into Apple has already considered the risks of Steve Jobs leaving this world tomorrow. Long term investors are the investors who are wondering or asking whats next in the pipeline to bring in profit not whats the daily status of Steve Jobs liver. Additionally, its not like Apple doesn't have a plan in place for this scenario, even before Steve Jobs left for the first time several years ago they were writing up transition plans to make sure business operations and management transition as smoothly as possible.
This is version 4.38.11.9, the one where Lucas replaced Boba Fett with Jar-Jar Binks.
Wrong. Its version 4.39.12.8, where they replaced the millennium falcon with a taco. Please hand over your nerd card and report to your local deportation office.
You *might* get problems under extreme load, because the 6950 uses the 6-pin power connector, whereas the 6970 can draw more power, because it uses the 9-pin connector.
This is the problem to take into account. Even if you run this card for 24 hours straight doing calculations and nothing "appears" to go wrong it just might take 72 hours of processing to do it, and not necessarily 72 hours straight just 72 hours all together. This is the risk because you might think your saving $80 or whatever but in reality you're destroying a good chunk of the cards life which will cost you more in the end when you replace it prematurely.
Or when the towns go to vote the telecom companies will run newspaper and tv ads on how it will cost the taxpayer more if the city ran network goes under.
This happened to a tri-city outside of Chicago (Geneva, St. Charles, Batavia). These three towns were voting to build a municipal network and let me tell you the week before voting the amount negative ads running against it were crazy. They basically played on the fear that if this failed the tax payer would foot the bill. It failed in vote but had every household that agreed to it bought it into it would have paid itself off in 5 years.
The best part the reason the three towns were doing it were because Comcast or any other major telecom refused to bring in broadband. Literally two weeks after the vote Comcast had delivered to 90% of the three cities.
Well the multiplayer was indirectly tied to single player. The only way to unlock additional multiplayer modifiers was to play the single player on higher difficulties and doing speed runs of maps. The single player was still a lot of fun, trying to beat Aztec in a certain time limit was still as awesome as playing 4 player multiplayer, I remember four of us taking turns seeing who could beat Aztec in time.
Here is a big example: the release of Spore. That game had thousands of bad reviews because of the DRM. People who never played/bought the game.
I saw something like this on Newegg(I believe), was researching graphic cards when I came across a review which had no depth to it. The review stated that for the same price you could purchase two graphics cards and basically have dual cards and have about 10% performance gain. The review neglected to say anything about having to purchase bigger case, motherboard that supports two video cards, and upping the power supply to accommodate the additional card.
So the review was obviously made by someone who didn't purchase the product.
No it was the visuals. There was no plot to Doom except what the manual stated on the first page. The game was simply the best looking game on the market and you ran around shooting monsters, that was it. You know what game came out 7 days before Doom that had a plot but more cartoonist style graphics? Blake Stone from Apogee and it was destroyed by Doom. Even when Doom 2 came out it was still the same game but with about 10 new enemies and one new gun but it was still the best looking game out there.
What happened with FPS games is that Half-Life came out. Not only did we have a beautiful game for its time but we had a plot, we had a character with a background, we had a setting that had a story behind it, we had a common foe to the main character, we had interaction with characters. All these elements were around but Half-Life put them together into a nice package. Half-Life changed what the FPS market was, as consumers we expected both good graphics and a great story that pulls us a long after Half-Life showed us it was possible. Doom survived because we didn't expect the great story, we had a game that looked light years ahead of the competition. Go forward 5 years and everyone has good looking graphics, but not everyone had a great plot to go along with these stories.
In my opinion graphics are no longer a selling point to a game. Every FPS out there can look amazing but can the plot really pull you in? Can that plot draw you to play the game a second time? Can that plot continue on into a sequel?
Back in the day a decent sound card would have its own on-board processor. This processor would take over the work of processing sound and relieve the burden from the actual CPU of the machine which was needed for other critical activities same concept as a GPU. Sounds to me the processing of the sound was different from single-player to multiplayer, maybe there was extra over head to process where the sounds were coming from within the environment. That extra overhead was put your CPU over the edge. Of course disabling the sound helped your game play. But today with multi-core processing and fast processors this is less of a concern and doesn't create the bottle neck like it used to. Heck, we might be seeing CPU/GPU combos on the same chip in the near future, I believe AMD and ATI were working on that?
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Well its all an act / business to him. He did his stint on CNN but exploiting fear in liberals is difficult compared to exploiting fear in conservatives. The current liberal market is younger and college level educated. The conservative market are older and although contains college level educated individuals its not as high as the liberal market.
Which market is better to exploit / market fear? A young, highly educated market or a older less-educated market?
As for the act, The Daily Show showed 2 clips, one from his CNN show and one from his FOX NEWS show, they were separated by about 18 months. On CNN he was saying the USA had the worst health care system in the world, but 18 months later he is on FOX NEWS saying its the best health care system in the world. So somehow the USA went from the worst to the best in 18 months with no legislation, reform, or any anything.
Pff, the Windows Phone SDK doesn't even give us access to the flash on the camera unless you're an OEM developer.
We were never asked to pay taxes on them before. Nor is it on the books to pay these taxes. Nor were the businesses I did business with required to collect sales tax. These laws were just enacted. I have no problem going forward them asking for the sales tax, but telling me I owe back taxes is a load of crap.
Amazon thinks Texas is bad? Illinois is trying to get about 6 years back-taxes from online shoppers They want everyone who purchased goods in the past 6 years online to pay back-sales-taxes on those goods. How that is considered legal is amazing.
http://archive.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/12/state-to-offer-sales-tax-amnesty-for-online-shoppers.html
For others, it's a lifeline to their family and culture from vast distances away. I think we need to be aware of that when we consider just how much affect the internet and facebook has had on the world.
Great story but Facebook is a service offered for free. They don't guarantee you anything that warrants a 500k lawsuit.
The protection this tool offered was designed around the fact that so many people were using it, it'd be impossible to arrest them all. This kinda falls down when there may be 500 Americans on it but just 10 Brits and you're one of the 10.
Even if that number increased their would still be chance of being caught. This is the same thing with the RIAA lawsuits. They couldn't sue everyone but they could sue enough people into scaring the common folk into using legitimate services. This would scare some to not even chance it because they could get caught. Now the difference is that some of these people are savvy enough to find ways to prevent themselves from being caught. Just like with the RIAA, those savvy enough could find alternate sources to those that were actively being monitored but to the non-technical savvy they had to go to legitimate sources.
Comparing today and 30 years ago is like comparing apples to oranges.
I will assume you are talking about DRM on old computer software back when the home computer was not in everyone's home and those who owned them were those that were interested. The harder forms of DRM died because the market was very small and anyone who owned a computer discussed these issues with each other. Also it didn't really die it just wasn't as restrictive and abusive, for example looking up a code in the manual of your legally purchased game.
The problem today with the PS3 or Xbox is that EVERYONE owns them and the market is huge, its not longer "geeks and nerds" who own the hardware, pretty much everyone does. So for the 100 of us on Slashdot that say we wont buy into it, there are 5000 other people who just don't give a damn or have no clue what DRM is and if you explained it to them they still wouldnt care.
Possibly...
http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2010/10/09/did-you-pre-order-duke-nukem-forever-gearbox-wants-to-reward-you.htm
The Duke was King back in 1995/1996. Back then I didn't have any form of income being a 12 year old and my folks didn't believe in allowance. I had to rely on some older kids in the neighborhood that would allow me to borrow the install CD's for Duke Nukem, Doom 2, and Quake.
Starting with Doom back in late 94 early 95, I must have spent hours playing it and going over every square inch of the maps. By the time Duke and Quake arrived there was always those discussion among the older kids of which was better. I never understood why Quake was better, no one in the neighborhood was online back then nor could do multiplayer of any form. Between Quake and Duke, the Duke had attitude, character, some depth you felt like you were playing as someone awesome. Quake though was just a man who would grunt every so often, not much different from Doom 2. As for the graphics, sure Quake was 3D in both objects and map but this was early primitive 3D. A decent art team making sprites could outshine 3D graphics back then.
The Duke will always be King.
...and a hundred new movies seem to be added weekly.
Don't get me wrong, I love watching bad movies. But of those 100 added every week maybe 2 or 3 are decent and everything else is terrible or B-Movie.
Claiming that he wanted to help AT&T improve its security, he wrote a computer script to extract the data from AT&T and then went public with the information.
Claiming to help? That is a great excuse there. They found a security hole in the system and instead of just reporting it to AT&T they pulled down private information which they did NOT have the right to access. In other words I left my front door unlocked, this doesn't give you the right to go in and snoop around and take my stuff, you CAN however report to me and the newspaper that my door is unlocked. That is why these "hackers" are in trouble. AT&T probably looked at the exploit and then realized not only was there a problem but the people reporting it took private and sensitive information, this then required them to go to the legal system because their liable for this. Most of these major companies have insurance to cover these types of incidents but unless they follow protocol the insurance might not pay out.
Also the article attached to slashdot is missing information. They also gave the private information to Gawker.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229000863&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
And in apparently chat logs exists of these "hackers" discussing to sell or use this information in an illegal way.
http://www.crn.com/news/security/229000878/feds-nab-web-trolls-in-at-t-ipad-hack.htm
The decision follows feedback from users that the sharing of data process wasn't clearly explained and criticism from security firms that the feature was ripe for abuse.
So basically they will just wait another few months, have a better explanation(an added sentence), and try again.
It really is a shame what Facebook has become. I joined back in 2005 when you had to register your account to a university with a university email address. Not many people had it, it felt like a unique little club that only a limited number of people could get into. The security was better in the sense that you had almost full control over anything anyone could see.
But now anyone can have a FB page from your grandmother to a company, it lost that unique feeling of being part of a club that was closed to outsiders.
I sanitized my account about 2 years ago with fake information except for my name and two photos. When they released the ability to backup your account I tried it and to my surprise all that was left was my sanitized information. Could old photos and posts be in their system? Yeah, but nothing that could really be used against me, although others that just posted whatever they wanted will not fair so well.
Those are probably the knee-jerk responses from short term investors or those who take any bad news as GTFO out of that stock ASAP. Anyone who has invested a decent amount of capital into Apple has already considered the risks of Steve Jobs leaving this world tomorrow. Long term investors are the investors who are wondering or asking whats next in the pipeline to bring in profit not whats the daily status of Steve Jobs liver. Additionally, its not like Apple doesn't have a plan in place for this scenario, even before Steve Jobs left for the first time several years ago they were writing up transition plans to make sure business operations and management transition as smoothly as possible.
Its one of the main reasons why burned games were able to play without modifying the hardware.
Please, the Dreamcast was epic fail it shipped with accessible debug mode.
Now which version was added?
This is version 4.38.11.9, the one where Lucas replaced Boba Fett with Jar-Jar Binks.
Wrong. Its version 4.39.12.8, where they replaced the millennium falcon with a taco. Please hand over your nerd card and report to your local deportation office.
You *might* get problems under extreme load, because the 6950 uses the 6-pin power connector, whereas the 6970 can draw more power, because it uses the 9-pin connector.
This is the problem to take into account. Even if you run this card for 24 hours straight doing calculations and nothing "appears" to go wrong it just might take 72 hours of processing to do it, and not necessarily 72 hours straight just 72 hours all together. This is the risk because you might think your saving $80 or whatever but in reality you're destroying a good chunk of the cards life which will cost you more in the end when you replace it prematurely.
Or when the towns go to vote the telecom companies will run newspaper and tv ads on how it will cost the taxpayer more if the city ran network goes under.
This happened to a tri-city outside of Chicago (Geneva, St. Charles, Batavia). These three towns were voting to build a municipal network and let me tell you the week before voting the amount negative ads running against it were crazy. They basically played on the fear that if this failed the tax payer would foot the bill. It failed in vote but had every household that agreed to it bought it into it would have paid itself off in 5 years.
The best part the reason the three towns were doing it were because Comcast or any other major telecom refused to bring in broadband. Literally two weeks after the vote Comcast had delivered to 90% of the three cities.
Well the multiplayer was indirectly tied to single player. The only way to unlock additional multiplayer modifiers was to play the single player on higher difficulties and doing speed runs of maps. The single player was still a lot of fun, trying to beat Aztec in a certain time limit was still as awesome as playing 4 player multiplayer, I remember four of us taking turns seeing who could beat Aztec in time.
When it all turns to iron dust the propellers will still be there as their 100% manganese bronze and will must likely be buried before they fall.
Here is a big example: the release of Spore. That game had thousands of bad reviews because of the DRM. People who never played/bought the game.
I saw something like this on Newegg(I believe), was researching graphic cards when I came across a review which had no depth to it. The review stated that for the same price you could purchase two graphics cards and basically have dual cards and have about 10% performance gain. The review neglected to say anything about having to purchase bigger case, motherboard that supports two video cards, and upping the power supply to accommodate the additional card.
So the review was obviously made by someone who didn't purchase the product.
I tried suing the creators of Duke Nukem, but the case went on forever!
Because the Clinton candidacy was strong when he chose Palin
Wait what? Clinton gave in August 27th 2008 at the Democratic National Convention, that same day Joe Biden accepted position as VP.
McCain picked Sarah Palin officially on September 3rd, he had a week to choose someone while knowing that Clinton was out of the picture.
No it was the visuals. There was no plot to Doom except what the manual stated on the first page. The game was simply the best looking game on the market and you ran around shooting monsters, that was it. You know what game came out 7 days before Doom that had a plot but more cartoonist style graphics? Blake Stone from Apogee and it was destroyed by Doom. Even when Doom 2 came out it was still the same game but with about 10 new enemies and one new gun but it was still the best looking game out there.
What happened with FPS games is that Half-Life came out. Not only did we have a beautiful game for its time but we had a plot, we had a character with a background, we had a setting that had a story behind it, we had a common foe to the main character, we had interaction with characters. All these elements were around but Half-Life put them together into a nice package. Half-Life changed what the FPS market was, as consumers we expected both good graphics and a great story that pulls us a long after Half-Life showed us it was possible. Doom survived because we didn't expect the great story, we had a game that looked light years ahead of the competition. Go forward 5 years and everyone has good looking graphics, but not everyone had a great plot to go along with these stories.
In my opinion graphics are no longer a selling point to a game. Every FPS out there can look amazing but can the plot really pull you in? Can that plot draw you to play the game a second time? Can that plot continue on into a sequel?
Back in the day a decent sound card would have its own on-board processor. This processor would take over the work of processing sound and relieve the burden from the actual CPU of the machine which was needed for other critical activities same concept as a GPU. Sounds to me the processing of the sound was different from single-player to multiplayer, maybe there was extra over head to process where the sounds were coming from within the environment. That extra overhead was put your CPU over the edge. Of course disabling the sound helped your game play. But today with multi-core processing and fast processors this is less of a concern and doesn't create the bottle neck like it used to. Heck, we might be seeing CPU/GPU combos on the same chip in the near future, I believe AMD and ATI were working on that?