norton catches a virus every time i boot up... it's a dll that makes my critical software run. i have to un-quarantine every single boot.
which makes me less likely to ever turn the machine off, which means security patches don't get installed, unless i get a crash or the power fails.
norton would store the exception, but it's GUI (sadly not the scanner itself) crashes in a runtime error on exiting and never bothers to save the exception.
i love norton. it's the best virus-simulator i've ever found.
do. not. attempt. to. reason. with. a. Liberal. voter....or in fact anybody that votes just for the one party every election without bothering to find out who they're voting for.
it's not the fucking football. there's actually things at stake, but apathy has meant both sides get away with whatever they want and the result is the same each time.
the Greens would be just fine, but my dealings with them show a group of really nice people who would never expect to win and just want to do their part.
it's probably worse - considering this place would be running 24/7, one could easily believe that the computers were seldom rebooted, and patch tuesdays would sit in the queue for weeks until the machine finally crashed and had to be rebootled.
there are certain people who have done more "anon" activities than others, people who want to be leaders, or just people who unwisely make themselves too visible.
they are only leaders if their ideas are popular.
let's call anonymous "cloud activism". we don't know where it all is, and it's not relevant.
one could safely say that there are now two anonymouses. the one that wants to keep it on 4chan, and the one that has become an organised (albeit extremely decentralised) legitimate group with a real structure and points of command (which are transient and relatively anonymous). it's quite clever really.
of course, "oldfags" are irked greatly by the politically active group that has sprung out of them (and goes by the same name).
and anonymous at it's very core is trolls trolling trolls, pissing in an ocean of piss.
as such, i approve of anonymous successfully trolling anonymous.
i know it's apples v oranges, but syndicate wars had amazing destructibility... you could even blow water tracts up with nuclear grenades or satellite rain, and the default metal-pipey texture would replace it.
any and every building could be flattened, and if you had good enough weapons you could destroy the whole town.
contesting a classification comes at a high price and no guarantee that the rating will be any more sane (i know of some DVD titles that came back worse after a re-classification).
it surprises me how games with major studios behind them seem to get MA ratings when games with less financial backing will be rejected with an R rating.
just sayin', wouldn't want to imply that money had changed hands or anything.
in the end it means that the MA audience are often getting R content that they wouldn't be getting if they actually allowed R rated games.
btw... most companies pay an agency to make the ads for them. so stupid shit like this can be blamed on someone else. with ads, it's rule-of-cool. like how endor is entirely covered in forest and hoth is completely frozen water ice.
blu-ray mastering machines are backward compatible.
the manufacturing process has been essentially the same since CDs became cheap to produce - it's rather like processing a black and white photo, but with metal and lasers (you can tell CDs were invented by pioneers in glam rock)
nice though handbrake and x264 are, a DVD isn't a very good master format. iTunes store will have a quality edge over the original DVD if they're not completely incompetent.
consider the iPad at the distance from your eyes you'll typically watch from is the equivalent of quite a large TV....just sayin'
1) regular use of F.U.D. Very misleading statements when comparing security with other platforms
hi! i'm a mac!
2) Not shipping when announced
any of their editing line (FCP, Color, FC studio, DVD studio)
3) Shipping things with major (and not quickly patched) flaws
quicktime has had the same gamma correction errors for about 7 years now. there are volumes of complaints about it, and though there's workarounds, most users have no idea how to avoid it.
4) Shipping things without some of the preannounced features. Preannounce and underdeliver is quite the opposite being somewhat secretive and providing some surprise with pretty well polished products at release.
RED support in Color.
a reset button wouldn't go amiss either.
5) Overstating user excitement/demand. Lines at stores due to free concert tickets instead of the new product? Subsidized launch parties. Quoting shipments to channel as sold (instead of actual end-user purchase/activation). Citing "sold out" when supply available was very low.
sell-through stats are unreliable and hard to obtain. those are the breaks. Apple has the same dilemma and to say they don't is dishonest.
6) Some really strange ads. (At least they've gotten better)
i have some Apple VHS tapes that would make you spit coffee at your monitor, even if you didn't have coffee on hand and weren't at your computer.
a company is a company is a company.
even opensource zealots spread FUD thicker than Pollock spreads paint, and they're not even paid for it.
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norton catches a virus every time i boot up... it's a dll that makes my critical software run. i have to un-quarantine every single boot.
which makes me less likely to ever turn the machine off, which means security patches don't get installed, unless i get a crash or the power fails.
norton would store the exception, but it's GUI (sadly not the scanner itself) crashes in a runtime error on exiting and never bothers to save the exception.
i love norton. it's the best virus-simulator i've ever found.
do. not. attempt. to. reason. with. a. Liberal. voter. ...or in fact anybody that votes just for the one party every election without bothering to find out who they're voting for.
it's not the fucking football. there's actually things at stake, but apathy has meant both sides get away with whatever they want and the result is the same each time.
the Greens would be just fine, but my dealings with them show a group of really nice people who would never expect to win and just want to do their part.
it's probably worse - considering this place would be running 24/7, one could easily believe that the computers were seldom rebooted, and patch tuesdays would sit in the queue for weeks until the machine finally crashed and had to be rebootled.
except the senior anons thing is bunk.
there are certain people who have done more "anon" activities than others, people who want to be leaders, or just people who unwisely make themselves too visible.
they are only leaders if their ideas are popular.
let's call anonymous "cloud activism". we don't know where it all is, and it's not relevant.
Are you sure Anonymous is all humans?
furries don't count.
one could safely say that there are now two anonymouses. the one that wants to keep it on 4chan, and the one that has become an organised (albeit extremely decentralised) legitimate group with a real structure and points of command (which are transient and relatively anonymous). it's quite clever really.
of course, "oldfags" are irked greatly by the politically active group that has sprung out of them (and goes by the same name).
and anonymous at it's very core is trolls trolling trolls, pissing in an ocean of piss.
as such, i approve of anonymous successfully trolling anonymous.
substitute "anonymous" with "the USA", and "the rest of the world" with the rest of the world.
Grinman is grinning at you.
ugh. that site is like a large pustule on the arse of the internet.
i got a flashback to Demolition Man just then...
"spicy food is bad for you and hence it is illegal"
mp3 has been mature for a long time, and it's been a while since i heard any "sizzle".
the portable music revolution (that really started in the 80s with the walkman) limits any popular formats to 2 channels.
and when we're comparing 24/48 or 2.42mhz, suddenly 16/44.1 sounds pretty much the same to any listener who is honest with themselves.
also, h.264 will always scale better than mpeg-2 on account of the varying block sizes.
i know it's apples v oranges, but syndicate wars had amazing destructibility... you could even blow water tracts up with nuclear grenades or satellite rain, and the default metal-pipey texture would replace it.
any and every building could be flattened, and if you had good enough weapons you could destroy the whole town.
the COB (formerly OFLC) are kinda arbitrary.
contesting a classification comes at a high price and no guarantee that the rating will be any more sane (i know of some DVD titles that came back worse after a re-classification).
it surprises me how games with major studios behind them seem to get MA ratings when games with less financial backing will be rejected with an R rating.
just sayin', wouldn't want to imply that money had changed hands or anything.
in the end it means that the MA audience are often getting R content that they wouldn't be getting if they actually allowed R rated games.
* R = 18+, MA = 15+
i love these posts.
the Postergeist hits the "preview" and "submit" buttons for you after you've stopped typing suddenly.
reminds me of 4chan and that Candlejack meme where the same thi
does it log when you very slightly swerve to avoid a big pothole?
like most people do?
i guess if it's REALLY big you couldn't avoid hitting it.
you're a bit creepy.
btw... most companies pay an agency to make the ads for them. so stupid shit like this can be blamed on someone else. with ads, it's rule-of-cool. like how endor is entirely covered in forest and hoth is completely frozen water ice.
blu-ray mastering machines are backward compatible.
the manufacturing process has been essentially the same since CDs became cheap to produce - it's rather like processing a black and white photo, but with metal and lasers (you can tell CDs were invented by pioneers in glam rock)
used them heaps in my last job. EDL lists, FLX files, closed-captioning data etc.
oldskoo. ever wonder why film post is so expensive? all that old gear to maintain.
nice though handbrake and x264 are, a DVD isn't a very good master format. iTunes store will have a quality edge over the original DVD if they're not completely incompetent.
consider the iPad at the distance from your eyes you'll typically watch from is the equivalent of quite a large TV. ...just sayin'
a good amount of Chinese clothing production is outsourced to African countries.
the goods go out with "made in China" written on them.
unfortunately said alzheimer's old guy is still built like schwarzenegger and your front door is starting to lose integrity.
and if my wife's mum is anything to go by, a day off the meds will drive them crazier than you could imagine.
if they lose google, bing will stop working.
ach! and to think i squandered all my modpoints in that stupid e-democracy thread!
very interesting point. they're not called the MAFIAA for nothing...
it was not the pedal. it was the throttle inside the car.
my old '88 did it too.
fucking love those old things. too bad a thief loved my last one too.
1) regular use of F.U.D. Very misleading statements when comparing security with other platforms
hi! i'm a mac!
2) Not shipping when announced
any of their editing line (FCP, Color, FC studio, DVD studio)
3) Shipping things with major (and not quickly patched) flaws
quicktime has had the same gamma correction errors for about 7 years now. there are volumes of complaints about it, and though there's workarounds, most users have no idea how to avoid it.
4) Shipping things without some of the preannounced features. Preannounce and underdeliver is quite the opposite being somewhat secretive and providing some surprise with pretty well polished products at release.
RED support in Color.
a reset button wouldn't go amiss either.
5) Overstating user excitement/demand. Lines at stores due to free concert tickets instead of the new product? Subsidized launch parties. Quoting shipments to channel as sold (instead of actual end-user purchase/activation). Citing "sold out" when supply available was very low.
sell-through stats are unreliable and hard to obtain. those are the breaks. Apple has the same dilemma and to say they don't is dishonest.
6) Some really strange ads. (At least they've gotten better)
i have some Apple VHS tapes that would make you spit coffee at your monitor, even if you didn't have coffee on hand and weren't at your computer.
a company is a company is a company.
even opensource zealots spread FUD thicker than Pollock spreads paint, and they're not even paid for it.