Someone's just going to mod this offtopic/redundant and it'll disappear off the RADAR of most slashdotters within a few minutes, why on earth do you people continue posting crap like this? It doesn't offend anyone, it doesn't make a point, it's not even funny...so why?
Don't you feel somewhat ashamed at being SADDER than your average slashdotter?
And what do you do when they pass a law to make obscuring your license plate (even if only for electronic devices) illegal? Rather than waste energy avoiding the problem of these cameras, I dare say your energy would be better spent fighting their use all together.
He's the chancellor for MY university. Sadly, it's the only good thing I can say about said university, but as a massive Queen fan, that's good enough for me!
In all likelihood, this probably IS the case, but that still goes a long way to discredit Futuremark as it shows their benchmarks were certainly NOT fairly tested.
I'm not saying it's a bad game or anything, but when the most exciting thing about a new SimCity game is the disasters you can inflict upon your city, it sort of implies that they've made the wrong kind of game. The objective of the game is to build and manage your city, not destroy it (although that's always fun), makes me think it's about time SimCity got a proper remake to bring it into the 21st century and not just updated graphics.
Except it's still not as simple as that. In this day and age, Internet connectivity isn't a luxury, it's a necessity for many people and unfortunately, the big ISPs and telecoms are taking advantage of this necessity. Sure, P2P isn't a necessity, but as someone else already pointed out - where does this lead? Isn't Skype P2P? What if you NEED to use Skype for a business discussion while you're in the arse-end of nowhere? What can you possibly do?
If only real life was that cut and dry. It's not always a case of "Don't like it? Don't sign up". What if you were unfortunate enough to live in an area where AT&T were the ONLY operators? What if you have an iPhone? What if you've already signed up to their UNLIMITED package and just started a 12-month contract only to find it's not quite so Unlimited?
The build includes a new tab-switching behavior that will force some users to change their habits. In the current version of FIrefox, Control-Tab opens up the next browser tab. Shiretoko changes this behavior, opening up a "filmstrip view" of a user's most-recently visited tabs. Pressing Tab repeatedly while holding down the Control key cycles through the various Tabs in a filmstrip. Developers say the filmstrip addition is a step toward "increased visual navigation and content organization."(Users who simply want to advance to the next tab can use Control-Page Down instead of Control-Tab).
I, personally, do not use Ctrl+tab to switch between tabs in firefox but I do not like the idea of them changing this functionality. In various other programs I use that have tabs, from mIRC to Visual studio (no, sorry, I haven't switched to *nix yet), ctrl+tab is the natural choice to swap between open tabs/windows and I do occasionally use this command here. It just seems universally consistent between most applications and Mozilla has decided to move away from this unofficial standard. Wouldn't it be better to give this new functionality a new shortcut key, such as the aforementioned ctrl+pgdn? Even Microsoft created a new shortcut key combination for Flip3D in vista and left the old alt+tab command more or less in tact.
Indeed, the Cyclo is an amazing piece of kit and if it wasn't for the fact that I already have a flash cart of sorts (I actually have a GBA cart, but with some jiggery-pokery, you can make the DS play DS games off of it) I'd probably get one myself.
In saying that, though, despite having the ability to play ANY DS game out there, I haven't touched the device in over a year due to the fact that 99.9% of the titles are all rubbish. Good luck with this, Nintendo, even if they do succeed in stopping piracy, all I can see it doing is causing a dip in DS sales.
It's not a bad idea, but as the summary theorised, it's just going to create a bunch of copycats. What they should do is list how much each person has been charged for these hoax calls to hammer home that it just wont be tolerated. It makes me sick when people waste the Emergency service's time like this and I genuinely believe they should all be harshly punished for it - people's lives are at stake, there's no excuse.
But I have to ask, is it such a bad thing? You know what it's like, you go to search for something completely innocent and porn comes up. It's not a fault or an idiosyncrasy of the interweb, it's google giving you what you really wanted.
It's one of SEVERAL different DS flash carts out there. Last I checked, there were at least 10, some of which are superior to the R4 in terms of functionality (they offer things like ingame cheats, ingame guides, even savestate functionality), just the R4 was one of the first of it's kind and thus the most well known of the bunch. It's a futile attempt to curb piracy on the DS, most of the technology invovled in their making is public knowledge (in terms of "you can find most of it by googlong around", not in terms of "any average Joe knows it"), hell I'm sure I seen schematics on how to build your own - Nintendo taking down this one group wont stop anything.
It's akin to the MPAA shutting down a single torrent site - 5 more pop up in it's place almost overnight.
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Someone's just going to mod this offtopic/redundant and it'll disappear off the RADAR of most slashdotters within a few minutes, why on earth do you people continue posting crap like this? It doesn't offend anyone, it doesn't make a point, it's not even funny...so why?
Don't you feel somewhat ashamed at being SADDER than your average slashdotter?
Laws of physics, laws of physics!
He really couldn't bend the laws of physics after all =\
If I wasn't so lazy, I'd flame you.
Oh I'm not disagreeing with you at ALL, I'm simply pointing out the flaw in the above posters train of thought.
And what do you do when they pass a law to make obscuring your license plate (even if only for electronic devices) illegal?
Rather than waste energy avoiding the problem of these cameras, I dare say your energy would be better spent fighting their use all together.
He's the chancellor for MY university.
Sadly, it's the only good thing I can say about said university, but as a massive Queen fan, that's good enough for me!
In all likelihood, this probably IS the case, but that still goes a long way to discredit Futuremark as it shows their benchmarks were certainly NOT fairly tested.
I'm not saying it's a bad game or anything, but when the most exciting thing about a new SimCity game is the disasters you can inflict upon your city, it sort of implies that they've made the wrong kind of game.
The objective of the game is to build and manage your city, not destroy it (although that's always fun), makes me think it's about time SimCity got a proper remake to bring it into the 21st century and not just updated graphics.
No, because that would stab the English language in the face.
Except it's still not as simple as that. In this day and age, Internet connectivity isn't a luxury, it's a necessity for many people and unfortunately, the big ISPs and telecoms are taking advantage of this necessity.
Sure, P2P isn't a necessity, but as someone else already pointed out - where does this lead? Isn't Skype P2P? What if you NEED to use Skype for a business discussion while you're in the arse-end of nowhere? What can you possibly do?
If only real life was that cut and dry.
It's not always a case of "Don't like it? Don't sign up".
What if you were unfortunate enough to live in an area where AT&T were the ONLY operators?
What if you have an iPhone?
What if you've already signed up to their UNLIMITED package and just started a 12-month contract only to find it's not quite so Unlimited?
I, personally, do not use Ctrl+tab to switch between tabs in firefox but I do not like the idea of them changing this functionality. In various other programs I use that have tabs, from mIRC to Visual studio (no, sorry, I haven't switched to *nix yet), ctrl+tab is the natural choice to swap between open tabs/windows and I do occasionally use this command here. It just seems universally consistent between most applications and Mozilla has decided to move away from this unofficial standard.
Wouldn't it be better to give this new functionality a new shortcut key, such as the aforementioned ctrl+pgdn?
Even Microsoft created a new shortcut key combination for Flip3D in vista and left the old alt+tab command more or less in tact.
Indeed, the Cyclo is an amazing piece of kit and if it wasn't for the fact that I already have a flash cart of sorts (I actually have a GBA cart, but with some jiggery-pokery, you can make the DS play DS games off of it) I'd probably get one myself.
In saying that, though, despite having the ability to play ANY DS game out there, I haven't touched the device in over a year due to the fact that 99.9% of the titles are all rubbish.
Good luck with this, Nintendo, even if they do succeed in stopping piracy, all I can see it doing is causing a dip in DS sales.
I wonder what the going rate of a military-certified security expert is, these days...
It's not a bad idea, but as the summary theorised, it's just going to create a bunch of copycats.
What they should do is list how much each person has been charged for these hoax calls to hammer home that it just wont be tolerated.
It makes me sick when people waste the Emergency service's time like this and I genuinely believe they should all be harshly punished for it - people's lives are at stake, there's no excuse.
But I have to ask, is it such a bad thing?
You know what it's like, you go to search for something completely innocent and porn comes up. It's not a fault or an idiosyncrasy of the interweb, it's google giving you what you really wanted.
A lot of DS games have the quality of an Atari 2600 game, same for the Wii. Doesn't mean some AWESOME ones don't exist out there as well.
It's one of SEVERAL different DS flash carts out there. Last I checked, there were at least 10, some of which are superior to the R4 in terms of functionality (they offer things like ingame cheats, ingame guides, even savestate functionality), just the R4 was one of the first of it's kind and thus the most well known of the bunch.
It's a futile attempt to curb piracy on the DS, most of the technology invovled in their making is public knowledge (in terms of "you can find most of it by googlong around", not in terms of "any average Joe knows it"), hell I'm sure I seen schematics on how to build your own - Nintendo taking down this one group wont stop anything.
It's akin to the MPAA shutting down a single torrent site - 5 more pop up in it's place almost overnight.
UP AND AT THEM!
lolulous!
One word: Scientology.
Chessulous? Pokulous?
They all seem different and complicated, I don't trust any of those things!
How can anyone trust ANYONE's writings if they have the initials "A.C."?