The most egregious example is the paid for Gears of War review scores. The game is getting slammed hard by even the Xbox's most diehard of supporters for poor network play and errors and jaggy graphics that don't look anything like the bullshit marketing shots for the game.
Odd, we were running a copy of Gears of war for a good 6-7 hours straight yesterday switching between online and single player mode accordingly, and we saw nothing when it comes to laggy network play, or bad graphics slip ups, in fact the engine handled quite well.
After all was said and done we then fired up halo 2 (for great lolz) and found the network to be shoddy as hell, and we found graphics bugs opening up like soar thumbs. (not that halo 2 is any comparison in terms of games, I mean it sucks). But Gears of War gave us no trouble on our test box yesterday.
Back on topic I am sure MS was trying to bribe Vista, but I would be willing to bet the Laptops that it was sitting on could have been an actual gift, I know MS immoral as hell, but... I think they would support their heavy hitting bloggers with some nice "prizes"
They have yet to convince me just how they are going to make the table obsolete, every time you turn a corner you are hearing from CSS users (including myself) the end of the table is near, don't use the table, I think the real question ought to be why not use the table, besides the lag, the complications with non css table layouts actually tend to go down in my experience. Yes I could spend 2 days figuring out why the div layout is being difficult and use CSS hacks to make it cross browser, but in the long run the div/css layout has a lot to work on before you see it being adopted as anything more than a side note for those who want to show off their skills. Right now CSS because of its major lack of vertical control is far less stable than the table structure, yes we are told you should burn in hell for even thinking of using tables, but on the end note it works, and quite frankly If I am going to get more stable results at the the price of not promoting the great CSS, than I can get over it. I am glad CSS has had 10 years and a congratulations are in order for them, but please if you are going to promise the end of an era or style try to make sure you can back it up with proof like the decline of nearly every major dynamic web software relying on tables to ensure stability (with CMS's trying to move to the div, the BBS stuck in a rut because css/divs just don't seem to help do them well
The fact is the booger is huge, there is no excusing this fact. Add this to the whole who the hell has that much space to store a blimp factor and the next who the hell will police the skies (as tickets get much harder to hand over when being able to pull over becomes a non option. The entire article is filled with it issues (namely size and practicality) that would make a helicopter although more expensive millions of times more practical. This is something like why drive your car to work when you can use this perfectly awesome toy wagon with new wheel design.
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
I am afraid the correct responce to a vigilante is always
(X) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
Even then what are you going to do, we are always taught to never trust our users, so I think the thing with this cookie business is just on the same level, cookies are just another method of attack, if you rely solely on them, as an experienced web app we should know if you are going to have cookies you are going to need another form of verification than just the cookie. So pointing a finger at any one single source is ridiculous, distrust the user all the way through
Along with other details as I went on to the site, just another sign to add to the growing list that the idea that google would actually make such a site is insane. Yes google does do the occasional server failure, but nothing quite like this, bad coding just isn't on google's list of things to release to the public, best look into it a bit more before jumping the boat.
As it references XSS attacks and then jumps to cookie abuse like it is something newer than XSS, I mean you know the whole web 2.0, almost everything being session and cookie based, yes turn those boogers off their dangerous, and return to the safe land of 1998 where static web pages reigned supreme. The fact is that we can't just dismiss the cookie, yes we can play safely in the field with it, but past that it is a integral part of today's web infrastructure and there is no short term replacement for it, between JS, ASP, and PHP all nearly relying on the whole concept of the cookie to validate session etc. You can't just say they are dangerous and to stop accepting them in general, and you can't just tell the web designer to stop using them, for the primary reason that it isn't practical.
Yes but google and Youtube's video audiance are fundementally different. By taking out one of Youtubes key factors (the fact you can find copyrighted movies, etc there) makes its audiance, if google takes over they will have to drop that, and then they loose their audiance and hence the reason for buying.
One thing about this that gets me is why. I mean in principle google video and youtube are a bit different, enough so that a fusion of the two will force one company principal over another, google has a very subsidiary view to the RIAA, and the other orginizations out there, Youtube you still see that subsidiary feel, but not nearly as much. I think that we are either going to see a loss of the youtube spirit simply because of the google standards, I mean I go to youtube to catch episodes of Star Trek (if you search well) google, I will never find them because of their "alliance" with paramount on the matter.
I thought for sure that non W3 sactioned were part of the forbidden scripts
But on a more serious note, the user that understands JS being off, is usually also not running online with IE, and there are even fewer users who have JS off, and run IE. I would say not to much of a threat.
because you can't use the protect the children trump card every time you don't get your way. Why do they need the data so badly? You're looking for what a select group right? and you get all the search engine data? yeah that seems really sneeky to me, while you at it, why don't we start going past just the children and include anyone else we feel is "evil"
I can't believe I'm about to say this, but we can not enforce a cultural value (for instance child pornagraphy which with all do respect is a judio christian moral theory) as a law.
Microsoft warned video game developers on Monday that their PC games are now a target for criminals.
I guess It must be nice to have the burden of only your OS and all your own software being the target lifted off your shoulders, now you can blame your third party developers too. I guess that hack for MMORPG Tycoon isn't just M$ fault anymore:P
that apple hasn't quite picked up on that whole oh I don't know compatible cooperate software thing yet. Where are all those developers again? oh thats right working for M$. Seriously you can make hateful claims about the UI and features, but as of yet... apple still has yet to really gain a good share of the software, why is that you ask, becuase unlike windows their OS isn't meant to bend over backwards to make something work. Its great that apple has a secure product, I just wish they had a developmental market to match. You can call it industry standard but in truth industry standard is what gets used, and innovation is just a cute side note.
Man those kids are lucky, I would just love to have a free porn image in my inbox every day... but alas I get medical advertisements... silly kids, fwd thine porn spam to me.
On a more serious note, why only target porn spam, why not just prosecute spammers period?
Linux doesn't have software compatability issues?
You can't be serious... commercial software is the software that counts;) So atleast I can install Photoshop on a windows or mac based OS for right now... can't say that about linux
Yes what you fail to mention is that you have limited to no third part support with those, Mac and OSX but hardly Free or Open BSD. people rag on windows all the time, and I'll admit I would rather run a Linux box any day, but there is no need to call the system primative. While Linux, BSD, and OSX are playing the lets advance technology game you have to remember they have major compatability issues with most third party software, in windows you can just about jerry rig anything to work without some form of windows viturlization (what you have to do with most other OS's) their high level tech may not be the best, but I would bet if we actually saw the source to lets say Vista or the others we would not be so downing of MS.
I understand they are the evil empire, but they have made a computer system that for the average user works, where others are focused on security windows went back and made sure that either things were compatible or could be made compatible, I don't know to many apps in OS 9.0 that work in OS 10, but I sure as hell know that with some minor jerry rigging, the windows coding can step back and work off even 3.1 version things.
Yes Windows is pure evil, and yes we may think that for the above average user it is "teh sux" but they designed a system that was intutive enough for the average user to pick up and understand within a matter of a few days. Throw someone who has never used a computer before and have them install something on a linux box... or a mac box, I sure know the first time I was going to intstall firefox it never occured to me they meant for to literally drop a program into a folder.
I don't think he just went soft like that, you don't go from black hat to employee in only a few months flat (or if you did you pish poor example of a black hat.) I think they payed him out the tail to promote their own agenda
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After all was said and done we then fired up halo 2 (for great lolz) and found the network to be shoddy as hell, and we found graphics bugs opening up like soar thumbs. (not that halo 2 is any comparison in terms of games, I mean it sucks). But Gears of War gave us no trouble on our test box yesterday.
Back on topic I am sure MS was trying to bribe Vista, but I would be willing to bet the Laptops that it was sitting on could have been an actual gift, I know MS immoral as hell, but... I think they would support their heavy hitting bloggers with some nice "prizes"
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heh, captcha says repeater, we sure these things are like adsence and detect message content?
They have yet to convince me just how they are going to make the table obsolete, every time you turn a corner you are hearing from CSS users (including myself) the end of the table is near, don't use the table, I think the real question ought to be why not use the table, besides the lag, the complications with non css table layouts actually tend to go down in my experience. Yes I could spend 2 days figuring out why the div layout is being difficult and use CSS hacks to make it cross browser, but in the long run the div/css layout has a lot to work on before you see it being adopted as anything more than a side note for those who want to show off their skills. Right now CSS because of its major lack of vertical control is far less stable than the table structure, yes we are told you should burn in hell for even thinking of using tables, but on the end note it works, and quite frankly If I am going to get more stable results at the the price of not promoting the great CSS, than I can get over it. I am glad CSS has had 10 years and a congratulations are in order for them, but please if you are going to promise the end of an era or style try to make sure you can back it up with proof like the decline of nearly every major dynamic web software relying on tables to ensure stability (with CMS's trying to move to the div, the BBS stuck in a rut because css/divs just don't seem to help do them well
for an anonymous coward you sure do have the sence of humor of a rock
The fact is the booger is huge, there is no excusing this fact. Add this to the whole who the hell has that much space to store a blimp factor and the next who the hell will police the skies (as tickets get much harder to hand over when being able to pull over becomes a non option. The entire article is filled with it issues (namely size and practicality) that would make a helicopter although more expensive millions of times more practical. This is something like why drive your car to work when you can use this perfectly awesome toy wagon with new wheel design.
(X) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Even then what are you going to do, we are always taught to never trust our users, so I think the thing with this cookie business is just on the same level, cookies are just another method of attack, if you rely solely on them, as an experienced web app we should know if you are going to have cookies you are going to need another form of verification than just the cookie. So pointing a finger at any one single source is ridiculous, distrust the user all the way through
Server Error in '/' Application.
Along with other details as I went on to the site, just another sign to add to the growing list that the idea that google would actually make such a site is insane. Yes google does do the occasional server failure, but nothing quite like this, bad coding just isn't on google's list of things to release to the public, best look into it a bit more before jumping the boat.
As it references XSS attacks and then jumps to cookie abuse like it is something newer than XSS, I mean you know the whole web 2.0, almost everything being session and cookie based, yes turn those boogers off their dangerous, and return to the safe land of 1998 where static web pages reigned supreme. The fact is that we can't just dismiss the cookie, yes we can play safely in the field with it, but past that it is a integral part of today's web infrastructure and there is no short term replacement for it, between JS, ASP, and PHP all nearly relying on the whole concept of the cookie to validate session etc. You can't just say they are dangerous and to stop accepting them in general, and you can't just tell the web designer to stop using them, for the primary reason that it isn't practical.
Yes but google and Youtube's video audiance are fundementally different. By taking out one of Youtubes key factors (the fact you can find copyrighted movies, etc there) makes its audiance, if google takes over they will have to drop that, and then they loose their audiance and hence the reason for buying.
Yes Mr. Stevens, in fact it is going to become tubes, however, this will not effect your gmail, that fails to load all on its own
One thing about this that gets me is why. I mean in principle google video and youtube are a bit different, enough so that a fusion of the two will force one company principal over another, google has a very subsidiary view to the RIAA, and the other orginizations out there, Youtube you still see that subsidiary feel, but not nearly as much. I think that we are either going to see a loss of the youtube spirit simply because of the google standards, I mean I go to youtube to catch episodes of Star Trek (if you search well) google, I will never find them because of their "alliance" with paramount on the matter.
Someone took the time to actually learn vml?
I thought for sure that non W3 sactioned were part of the forbidden scripts
But on a more serious note, the user that understands JS being off, is usually also not running online with IE, and there are even fewer users who have JS off, and run IE. I would say not to much of a threat.
because you can't use the protect the children trump card every time you don't get your way. Why do they need the data so badly? You're looking for what a select group right? and you get all the search engine data? yeah that seems really sneeky to me, while you at it, why don't we start going past just the children and include anyone else we feel is "evil"
I can't believe I'm about to say this, but we can not enforce a cultural value (for instance child pornagraphy which with all do respect is a judio christian moral theory) as a law.
I guess It must be nice to have the burden of only your OS and all your own software being the target lifted off your shoulders, now you can blame your third party developers too. I guess that hack for MMORPG Tycoon isn't just M$ fault anymore
that apple hasn't quite picked up on that whole oh I don't know compatible cooperate software thing yet. Where are all those developers again? oh thats right working for M$. Seriously you can make hateful claims about the UI and features, but as of yet... apple still has yet to really gain a good share of the software, why is that you ask, becuase unlike windows their OS isn't meant to bend over backwards to make something work. Its great that apple has a secure product, I just wish they had a developmental market to match. You can call it industry standard but in truth industry standard is what gets used, and innovation is just a cute side note.
no I think you are thinking of Aliens 3, dog finds alien, alien eats/fuses with/uses dog, alien/dog hybrid goes on killing spree
Man those kids are lucky, I would just love to have a free porn image in my inbox every day... but alas I get medical advertisements... silly kids, fwd thine porn spam to me.
On a more serious note, why only target porn spam, why not just prosecute spammers period?
Yes and if you had read TFA you would know the key he used has been floating around sence 2004 ;)
This is news?
Linux doesn't have software compatability issues? ;) So atleast I can install Photoshop on a windows or mac based OS for right now... can't say that about linux
You can't be serious... commercial software is the software that counts
Yes what you fail to mention is that you have limited to no third part support with those, Mac and OSX but hardly Free or Open BSD. people rag on windows all the time, and I'll admit I would rather run a Linux box any day, but there is no need to call the system primative. While Linux, BSD, and OSX are playing the lets advance technology game you have to remember they have major compatability issues with most third party software, in windows you can just about jerry rig anything to work without some form of windows viturlization (what you have to do with most other OS's) their high level tech may not be the best, but I would bet if we actually saw the source to lets say Vista or the others we would not be so downing of MS.
I understand they are the evil empire, but they have made a computer system that for the average user works, where others are focused on security windows went back and made sure that either things were compatible or could be made compatible, I don't know to many apps in OS 9.0 that work in OS 10, but I sure as hell know that with some minor jerry rigging, the windows coding can step back and work off even 3.1 version things.
Yes Windows is pure evil, and yes we may think that for the above average user it is "teh sux" but they designed a system that was intutive enough for the average user to pick up and understand within a matter of a few days. Throw someone who has never used a computer before and have them install something on a linux box... or a mac box, I sure know the first time I was going to intstall firefox it never occured to me they meant for to literally drop a program into a folder.
I'm not saying there bad people, just that I thought part of the hacker credo was never help the enemy
I don't think he just went soft like that, you don't go from black hat to employee in only a few months flat (or if you did you pish poor example of a black hat.) I think they payed him out the tail to promote their own agenda
not sure if that was supposed to be funny :P
but it may not be such a bad idea, what about the iconians, the start of the borg etc.