This is an utterly foolish move by manufacturers and retailers, because it presumes that HD-DVD was the *only* obstacle to widespread adoption. In fact, Blu-Ray may have won the battle vs. HD-DVD, but it is far from winning the war. Digital download is becoming increasingly popular, and many consumers are just fine with their current DVD's.
Some advice to the Blu-Ray camp: You still haven't convinced us to buy, and raising prices ain't gonna help things.
I seem to remember that Silverlight was unveiled around the same times that Steve Ballmer ran his mouth off about all of those mystery patents that linux was infringing upon. I really think that this ended up turning off the audience that they were trying to engage.
Now, there have been rumors that Sony is working on a full software only BC solution, but not much has been heard about this yet, and its still only rumors.
I'm sure we'll never know, but I wonder why full software emulation is proving to be difficult for Sony. Without delving into a flamewar, let's just assume that both the 360 and PS3 have roughly equivalent horsepower. Let's further suppose (yes I'm delving into flamebait territory... hear me out) that the ps2 is slightly less powerful than the xbox1 (arguably slower cpu/gpu than xbox, 32mb ram vs 64 on the xbox). If that's the case, then why wouldn't ps2 software emulation be less difficult than xbox software emulation?
I only mention punishment because you were the one claiming it was justice that the kid got killed. Clearly it isn't.
You act like you're certain they did nothing wrong.
No, I think they did something very, very stupid. But I also feel like they should not have died, and did not deserve to. Why do people make every situation out to be mutually exclusive?
As for the female zookeeper, I haven't read enough about what her story was. I do know that the zoo was held liable and fined $10,000. And I think she's suing (or sued) the zoo. But I'll take your claim at face value.
Either way, I think we're more in agreement than it seems. We both think that the zoo was mismanaged. We both agree that the tiger was provoked. What I'm saying is that if a tiger *can* jump out of it's cage, it *will* jump out of it's cage, it's just a matter of time. If it wasn't these stupid kids, it would be some totally innocent bystander that inadvertantly does something that pisses the tiger off. Maybe the tiger just gets hungry or restless. Who knows. The point is that you shouldn't have to examine the psychological underpinnings of 350lb. siberian tiger to figure out how culpible the zoo is. Regardless of what made the tiger jump out of the cage, it jumped out of the cage, period. And that it was able to means that the people in charge should be nailed to the wall.
That story is nearly the opposite of everything I heard
Stories don't carry as far when they aren't as salacious, regardless of the truth. People feel more comfortable accepting this kids death if they villify him. The cops *on the scene*, who searched the scene, searched the victim's person and their car, and interviewed witnesses are saying that there was no slingshots or rock throwing, yet you're choosing to believe rumors and speculation.
The girl would be a tragedy, this is justice.
Bullshit. The punishment should fit the crime. The just punishment for acting like an ass at a public zoo should not be a slow and tortuous death, or to watch your brother be slaughtered in front of you while people think that you're lying and refuse to help you. Have you even read the 9-1-1 transcripts of what happened? Nobody should have to die that way.
If an animal in a zoo (or anywhere else for that matter) becomes a mankiller, that's a human's fault, not the animal's.
Fair enough. I'm with you so far...
The animal shouldn't die because of some asshole human. If it kills other people, that's just too bad; they're 6.5 billion of us. We can afford to lose a few.
Sorry, now you lost me. I think you'll likely disagree if one of those "few" is either yourself or someone you love. It sickens me to think that your regard for human life is a function ofhow many humans are out there.
It doesn't matter *how* you create the mankilling tiger. Yes, so sad for the tiger, but you can be damn sure I'll choose for the tiger to die over any human life.
And contrary to popular thought, this wasn't the first time the tiger mauled somebody. It had mauled one of the zoo staff prior to being taunted by this punk kid. It's fair to say that this previous incident lowered the tiger's threshold for going on a kill frenzy.
He also wasn't just verbally taunting, they were using a slingshot on it. Big difference.
This is simply not true. This is a rumor that is being flung around various websites, and in fact has been refuted by police investigators. What is true, however, is that after the tiger escaped, the nearby cafe locked it's doors and the staff would not let one of the surviving brothers in while the tiger rampaged outside. In fact, the staff initially thought that the kids were joking, and were late in reacting. Finally, the zoo prevented firefighters and police officers from entering the zoo for up to six minutes before letting them in. These actions seem far more wreckless, yet nobody seems to be repeating these facts. Just the lie about the slingshot.
It doesn't matter whose fault it was though, the kid deserved what he got.
As I wrote in another thread: What if this was not an 18-year old male yelling at the tiger, but a 10 year old girl waving at the tiger and screaming "Hello tiger!". How does the tiger know which is cruelty and which is playful? When we bare our teeth, we are usually smiling but to most animals that is a sign of aggression. As you said in your last post, tigers can't be expected to make the distinction. So does the girl deserve to be killed to?
Typical nanny state attitude. Make everything super safe, regardless how it is used.
Are you fucking insane? We aren't talking about excessive warning labels on a nerf gun. It's a goddamned 350lb tiger! It shouldn't need to be explained that you need to design a cage so that it *cant* get out of its cage, no matter the level of provocation. Tigers don't speak english. It's very well possible that the tiger would interpret the taunts of a 18-year old male the same as it would interpret a 9-year old girl frantically waving "hello" to the big kitty. Does she deserve to die too?
I'm all for personal responsibility, but when you consider that thousands of visitors pass that cage every single day, the law of probability dictates that someone will do something stupid. So, if the cat can escape from it's cage, it will. It's simply an eventuality. Knowing this, how can any responsible zookeeper *not* do everything in it's power to prevent the tiger from being able to leap out of its cage.
Yes it is. Fuck that sick little shit, he absolutely deserved to die. Just ask yourself what kind of horrible mind it takes to enjoy teasing an animal that we've already put in a cage.
As opposed to the deranged mind that feels that the adequate punishment for verbally taunting an animal should be the death penalty?. The irony is that this kid's callousness is dwarfed by your own.
No, he did not deserve to die. This was an accident waiting to happen, and it's unfortunate that the take away message people have is "Welp, I guess you shouldn't yell at deadly animals" when it should be "Jesus, that zoo endangered all of its patrons by making the wall too low".
We already know that the zoo was cutting corners. We already know that this isn't the first time that this tiger mauled somebody, thus lowering it's fear of humans. What if the zoo accidentally skipped one of the tigers feedings? Would the next person to get mailed be at fault for being too slow?
No, there are no factors that mitigate the zoo's fault in this. Under no circumstances should a tiger be able to jump out of its cage. I'm surprised that I even have to explain this to people.
It's perfectly legal for them to hire private security if the police are not willing to help.
Since when can a citizen or private institution perform a raid? Let's assume that we're talking about the USA here... please cite a source for that. Only a bounty hunter comes close, and even then they only come into play once someone has been convicted for a crime.
But, the whole reason to GO to a University, is to get the skills/education to make more money when finished, than you would have if you had not gone.
No. The whole reason to go to a university is to learn. Not just learning the subject at hand, but also learning how to learn. That's what seperates a decent school from a training seminar.
If all you want is more money, go get an IT certification
Very helpful... telling people to go online KB articles when their machine won't boot. let's hope everybody hit this problem has access to a second pc.
As for why this didnt get caught by QA, they don't reboot their machines
Well of course they didn't. The point is that they *should be* rebooting as part of their test procedure. They just got lazy.
Anyone will tell you the odds of a mistake are bigger the longer you go without making one
This is simply not true! If you flip a coin, the odds of heads/tails is 50/50, no matter how many times you've flipped it in the past. If you are right, then god help us because the sun --instead of rising each day without incident for millions of years-- may blow up any second!!
I really don't get the point of your post. You act as if this is no big deal, and not really the developer's fault (heck, with so many successful patches in the past, you say this was downright inevitable). In truth, I'd wager the problem is bigger than you might think for the simple reason that the people who only have one workstation and have been hit by this problem understandably can't go online and complain about it.
I really only meant the "right way" in a stereotypical sense. Most people consider the act of reading to be sounding out the sequence of letters in the words and knowing grammatical rules, whereas my daughter has memorized of dozens words based on their "shape",without necessarily knowing how to sound out all of the letters.
As the parent of a 5yo daughter, I definitely agree with games mentioned in the parent post. Super Princess Peach is probably the best in that group (in my opinion), because it strikes a good balance of being easy for kids to control while still being very fun to play. It also encourages thinking skills -- you can use elemental tools such as fire to melt ice obstacles, water to douse fires, etc.
I also agree that it's okay for games to have words, even if the child cannot yet read them. My daughter is just learning to read "the right way" with phonetics, yet can recognize dozens (maybe hundreds) of words because I've read them to her and she's memorized the combination of letters.
Oh, and that's another good point. Playing these games with your kid is important *and* fun. Read the dialogs to her, help her when she's stuck, play co-op, whatever. It turns an otherwise isolated activity into family bonding.
Disclaimer: I actually *like* SLT's (spam, lettuce, tomato) so I may be biased (or insane).
I remember watching some show on Food network ("Good Eats"? I think.) and they covered a Spam cook off. Some of the recipes seemed actually decent, but mostly tongue-in-cheek acknowledgments that spam is not exactly the best tasting thing in the world. But the funniest thing about is that they interviewed some Hormel exec and the guy had NO SENSE OF HUMOR WHATSOEVER, and was almost visibly agitated at the suggestion that spam is somewhat of a joke. Pity that they don't seem to "get it".
That said, I think that they are somewhat justified in going after people that use "Spam" even in the email context. Most people (even non-IT people) associate "spam" with email nowadays, and I can see a day where people will scratch their heads and wonder why Hormel name a product after junk mail. So it's understandable why they want to defend their brand. Still, I think this is inevitable and they could spin it into good PR if they could just have a sense of humor about it all.
I haven't given Gamespot reviews any real thought in a long time, due to the massive amount of advertising games would get on the main page at the same time the review was out.
What's funny is that the same thing happened back when the Spiderman 3 game came out. There was a similar advertising deal where the site was skinned with spiderman artwork and there was even a "countdown" clock leading up to it's release. The trick is that the review was held until launch day. Sure enough, clock hit zero and the review hit: 6.6. I'm sure Activision was pissed but it earned Gamespot some respect. Jeff Gerstmann didn't do the review, but as the editorial director I'm sure he took the heat. I wonder if the Kane and Lynch review was the final straw.
Strikes me as an indictment of human behavior. Do you praise apple for all of the previous times that they ported java, or condemn them for the one time that they don't?
Sun already provides JDK Builds for eight platforms. If they want to see Java 6 for Apple, than they should write it.
No, the conclusion is you should always use salted hashes.
That's good advice for application developers, but the original post was offering advice to users. Still, even that is a bit of an overreaction. From TFA:
And indeed, the MD5 hash of "Anthony" was the database entry for the attacker. I had discovered his password.
Not to diminish this admin's accomplishment (it sounds like he's quite clever), but doesn't this boil down to "don't use your name as your password"? Or better yet, "don't use any proper name as a password".
Keep in mind that this was a hash of a userid (not a password) that was captured in a google index, and it's highly unlikely that someone will choose a userid on a google-indexed site that just-so-happens to be your 10+ character password that has mixed-case and special characters. I think the same "good password advice" still applies, even in a google-world.
For example, without a doubt the best way to get rid of the squirrels in your attic is to squirt just a small amount of fox urine fox urine up there.
Oh yeah? Well what happens when my attic is bristling with foxes. Now that they smell a fox-friendly, air conditioned home? What then, smarty pants? Bobcat urine? No thanks! I'll stick with squirrels, thankyouverymuch. At least they fill my attic with acorns.
Well, you wouldn't. That's where the "giving" part kicks in. The value proposition is in the fact that you're making a philanthropic gesture *and* getting a laptop out of the deal.
To be fair, it does have a 200dpi screen (in monoscreen mode), and that aint shabby. And even at $400 it's comparable with an ebook reader.
But it's not really fair to imply that OLPC is ignoring US education. As I said, educational institutes in the US are free to make a case for funding such projects. OLPC will gladly ship the units.
I disagree. Nicholas Negroponte in the past had flat refused to sell the computer to US schools. Only when it was looking like he wasn't going to get enough orders to begin mass -production did he start to *consider* it. Here's a snippet from a good Ars Technica article:
OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte had previously rejected the prospect of selling XO laptops to schools in the United States, but is now seriously reconsidering. According to Negroponte, the laptops would be sold at a higher price in the United States than in developing countries.
So only after low order numbers and higher-than-expected unit costs did the OLPC project even consider selling to the US.
I was unable to find out whether Negroponte ultimately changed his mind, but it's unfair to say that US schools just aren't interested. They do want the OLPC, but foundation said "no" (at least in the beginning).
It's improved, but in my opinion it's still slower and more bloated than it needs to be. Foxit reader has a much smaller footprint and is (in my opinion) much more responsive.
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This is an utterly foolish move by manufacturers and retailers, because it presumes that HD-DVD was the *only* obstacle to widespread adoption. In fact, Blu-Ray may have won the battle vs. HD-DVD, but it is far from winning the war. Digital download is becoming increasingly popular, and many consumers are just fine with their current DVD's.
Some advice to the Blu-Ray camp: You still haven't convinced us to buy, and raising prices ain't gonna help things.
I seem to remember that Silverlight was unveiled around the same times that Steve Ballmer ran his mouth off about all of those mystery patents that linux was infringing upon. I really think that this ended up turning off the audience that they were trying to engage.
No, I think they did something very, very stupid. But I also feel like they should not have died, and did not deserve to. Why do people make every situation out to be mutually exclusive?
As for the female zookeeper, I haven't read enough about what her story was. I do know that the zoo was held liable and fined $10,000. And I think she's suing (or sued) the zoo. But I'll take your claim at face value.
Either way, I think we're more in agreement than it seems. We both think that the zoo was mismanaged. We both agree that the tiger was provoked. What I'm saying is that if a tiger *can* jump out of it's cage, it *will* jump out of it's cage, it's just a matter of time. If it wasn't these stupid kids, it would be some totally innocent bystander that inadvertantly does something that pisses the tiger off. Maybe the tiger just gets hungry or restless. Who knows. The point is that you shouldn't have to examine the psychological underpinnings of 350lb. siberian tiger to figure out how culpible the zoo is. Regardless of what made the tiger jump out of the cage, it jumped out of the cage, period. And that it was able to means that the people in charge should be nailed to the wall.
It doesn't matter *how* you create the mankilling tiger. Yes, so sad for the tiger, but you can be damn sure I'll choose for the tiger to die over any human life.
And contrary to popular thought, this wasn't the first time the tiger mauled somebody. It had mauled one of the zoo staff prior to being taunted by this punk kid. It's fair to say that this previous incident lowered the tiger's threshold for going on a kill frenzy.
This is simply not true. This is a rumor that is being flung around various websites, and in fact has been refuted by police investigators. What is true, however, is that after the tiger escaped, the nearby cafe locked it's doors and the staff would not let one of the surviving brothers in while the tiger rampaged outside. In fact, the staff initially thought that the kids were joking, and were late in reacting. Finally, the zoo prevented firefighters and police officers from entering the zoo for up to six minutes before letting them in. These actions seem far more wreckless, yet nobody seems to be repeating these facts. Just the lie about the slingshot.As I wrote in another thread: What if this was not an 18-year old male yelling at the tiger, but a 10 year old girl waving at the tiger and screaming "Hello tiger!". How does the tiger know which is cruelty and which is playful? When we bare our teeth, we are usually smiling but to most animals that is a sign of aggression. As you said in your last post, tigers can't be expected to make the distinction. So does the girl deserve to be killed to?
I'm all for personal responsibility, but when you consider that thousands of visitors pass that cage every single day, the law of probability dictates that someone will do something stupid. So, if the cat can escape from it's cage, it will. It's simply an eventuality. Knowing this, how can any responsible zookeeper *not* do everything in it's power to prevent the tiger from being able to leap out of its cage.
No, he did not deserve to die. This was an accident waiting to happen, and it's unfortunate that the take away message people have is "Welp, I guess you shouldn't yell at deadly animals" when it should be "Jesus, that zoo endangered all of its patrons by making the wall too low".
We already know that the zoo was cutting corners. We already know that this isn't the first time that this tiger mauled somebody, thus lowering it's fear of humans. What if the zoo accidentally skipped one of the tigers feedings? Would the next person to get mailed be at fault for being too slow?
No, there are no factors that mitigate the zoo's fault in this. Under no circumstances should a tiger be able to jump out of its cage. I'm surprised that I even have to explain this to people.
Since when can a citizen or private institution perform a raid? Let's assume that we're talking about the USA here... please cite a source for that. Only a bounty hunter comes close, and even then they only come into play once someone has been convicted for a crime.
Have you ever heard a passenger exclaim "Watch out!!!" while in the car with you? Probably. Ever heard them say that over the phone? Probably not.
*That* is why passenger conversations are less distracting than cell phone conversations.
No. The whole reason to go to a university is to learn . Not just learning the subject at hand, but also learning how to learn. That's what seperates a decent school from a training seminar.
If all you want is more money, go get an IT certification
I really don't get the point of your post. You act as if this is no big deal, and not really the developer's fault (heck, with so many successful patches in the past, you say this was downright inevitable). In truth, I'd wager the problem is bigger than you might think for the simple reason that the people who only have one workstation and have been hit by this problem understandably can't go online and complain about it.
I really only meant the "right way" in a stereotypical sense. Most people consider the act of reading to be sounding out the sequence of letters in the words and knowing grammatical rules, whereas my daughter has memorized of dozens words based on their "shape",without necessarily knowing how to sound out all of the letters.
As the parent of a 5yo daughter, I definitely agree with games mentioned in the parent post. Super Princess Peach is probably the best in that group (in my opinion), because it strikes a good balance of being easy for kids to control while still being very fun to play. It also encourages thinking skills -- you can use elemental tools such as fire to melt ice obstacles, water to douse fires, etc.
I also agree that it's okay for games to have words, even if the child cannot yet read them. My daughter is just learning to read "the right way" with phonetics, yet can recognize dozens (maybe hundreds) of words because I've read them to her and she's memorized the combination of letters.
Oh, and that's another good point. Playing these games with your kid is important *and* fun. Read the dialogs to her, help her when she's stuck, play co-op, whatever. It turns an otherwise isolated activity into family bonding.
Disclaimer: I actually *like* SLT's (spam, lettuce, tomato) so I may be biased (or insane).
I remember watching some show on Food network ("Good Eats"? I think.) and they covered a Spam cook off. Some of the recipes seemed actually decent, but mostly tongue-in-cheek acknowledgments that spam is not exactly the best tasting thing in the world. But the funniest thing about is that they interviewed some Hormel exec and the guy had NO SENSE OF HUMOR WHATSOEVER, and was almost visibly agitated at the suggestion that spam is somewhat of a joke. Pity that they don't seem to "get it".
That said, I think that they are somewhat justified in going after people that use "Spam" even in the email context. Most people (even non-IT people) associate "spam" with email nowadays, and I can see a day where people will scratch their heads and wonder why Hormel name a product after junk mail. So it's understandable why they want to defend their brand. Still, I think this is inevitable and they could spin it into good PR if they could just have a sense of humor about it all.
What's funny is that the same thing happened back when the Spiderman 3 game came out. There was a similar advertising deal where the site was skinned with spiderman artwork and there was even a "countdown" clock leading up to it's release. The trick is that the review was held until launch day. Sure enough, clock hit zero and the review hit: 6.6. I'm sure Activision was pissed but it earned Gamespot some respect. Jeff Gerstmann didn't do the review, but as the editorial director I'm sure he took the heat. I wonder if the Kane and Lynch review was the final straw.
Strikes me as an indictment of human behavior. Do you praise apple for all of the previous times that they ported java, or condemn them for the one time that they don't?
Sun already provides JDK Builds for eight platforms. If they want to see Java 6 for Apple, than they should write it.
Keep in mind that this was a hash of a userid (not a password) that was captured in a google index, and it's highly unlikely that someone will choose a userid on a google-indexed site that just-so-happens to be your 10+ character password that has mixed-case and special characters. I think the same "good password advice" still applies, even in a google-world.
Now they can ignore the standards and only code for webkit now!
To be fair, it does have a 200dpi screen (in monoscreen mode), and that aint shabby. And even at $400 it's comparable with an ebook reader.
I was unable to find out whether Negroponte ultimately changed his mind, but it's unfair to say that US schools just aren't interested. They do want the OLPC, but foundation said "no" (at least in the beginning).
It's improved, but in my opinion it's still slower and more bloated than it needs to be. Foxit reader has a much smaller footprint and is (in my opinion) much more responsive.