This is about a company like AT&T deciding that they want to offer a movie download service and everyone else's is going to take 1000x as long as theirs to download.
Cable TV, anyone? If unregulated, couldn't they block access to popular sites entirely unless you sign up for premium channels? And it's not just a monopoly over their own market either: AT&T could ofer downloadable movies and block access to Netflix.com
...and core animation. If it's as simple and well applied / documented as everything else in Cocoa, we'll have something seriously powerful on our hands.
Does Vista have anything like this? 'Cause XP sure didn't. The difference in native support between Windows and Mac has always been a major deal-maker for me, whether it's file formats or foreign alphabets. OSX has so far seemed to provide twice the useful gadgets and doo-dads in the same memory space. I'm curious to see how Leopard stacks up against Vista on the one-line-of-code-does-tons-of-stuff scale.
You're not supposed to play it long enough for the novelty to wear off. That's pretty much what bundled software is all about. The purpose is to show you something neat the controller can do, and get you wanting more games.
Now, the only one I really loved was tennis. I think Big N was aware that most players would only really love one or two of the sports. But for me, and I expect for most people, that's enough to make the control-shceme feel really exciting. Tennis is primarily timing and brute force, but it also knows an astonishing amount of information about where your hand is and how it's moving. The Wii Sports package isn't very well polished, nor is it a long-term game, but it shows the player what is to come.
Notice how the Nintendo Wii does two of those, and sits in such an Apple-like shell? Well, the big challenge with the Wii wasn't developing new technology, but rather doing it affordably. Imagine, then, Apple releasing a similar control scheme, using a Core (2) Duo as the processor with a MacBook derived mainboard and a tv/cable tuner built in. Throw in some basic DVR software, a really simple UI, and a big hard-drive...
When price isn't such a big factor in the design, how long would it really take? And your launch-titles would be rough-and-ready ports of all the games Mac users already enjoy. Until the fresh games start rolling down the line, it's still a really nice DVR.
I used to love this old ride called The Gravitron. There's a similar one out there called SpacShip 2000. It's a big flying-saucer looking thing with foam pads all around the insides nd no restraints or anything. Passangers stand with their backs against the pads and the ride spins them up to slightly above 1g for roughly three minutes.
I'm here to tell ya, even that isn't uncomfortable. It didn't require especially fit people to go on this ride. It didn't even have a height or age requirement. Sure it was short, but it always felt to me (twice a year until I was 12) that it could've gone on quite forever. It would've gotten rather boring, though.
I don't see how 0.15g could be a big deal when 1.1g is literally child's play.
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What about those of us who want it dirt-cheap and don't have an IR port? Sometimes it's cheaper to buy a ringtone or two than to buy an external IR.
Then again, I'm a weird piece of the market. I use contract free, so I think I spent $1.50 on my phone this month. Could be less.
Isn't that the part that redeems the social networking system? The sorts of dark, scary, emo thoughts that teenagers tend to have a lot are a problem when locked up without communication, but pepper them across a big, ugly group of userpages and they start to look like the absurd rubbish that they are.
Remember, a bad idea that seems logical simply hasn't been seen in the correct light. In this case, that light happens to be red text on a blue background.
That'd make the game behave noticeably differently on the two platforms.
You mean like Halo? You mean like every fps ever? Simply switching control formats alters the experience pretty drastically, so it seems logical for the game itself to be a bit different too.
It should be good for Apple regardless, in that major holes are id'd and can be fixed, or their security reputation is improved.
Just in time to incorporate new procedures into Leopard to boot.
Consumers: We're hearing about bugs in Mac now! wtf can we get viruses?!?!?! Apple: Very probably not, but if you upgrade to Leopard we can guarantee no viruses!
It's because of the domain-name lawsuit. Now, sure, this happens all the time. On that face, it wouldn't be news. But the fact that MGM does this to the geek community with one hand while making a geek/hacker movie with the other is what we might call "dropping the gauntlet." It's not the foul that makes it news-worthy, it's the flagrancy.
Also, IMHO, the reason why big companies can step on people this way is because they know that the worst this community can do is blog about it. More front-end organizations with legal clout might be the sollution, but between the EFF and the ACLU, it seems that slinging legal bullshit back at the legal bullshitters has been more or less useless. Frankly, it's impressive that such an old-school system of broken laws and financially repressive legal systems has managed to stymy the collective creativity of our entire community.
on one side, you should care because the market wants it enough to whip it into existence, and someday there may be those of us that must support it, or be compatible with it, or whatever happens to be necessary to keep a clap-trap M$ desktop-server running. Think about what this thing does and what it's used for, and then decide if it's a problem we should be worrying about. This especially applies with those on the ground handling networks and working with desktop software.
Heaven forbid they should perhaps consider the regulations as silly as everyone else.
How do you protest a bad regulation? Don't enforce it! Feel free to diguise your efforts as sloppiness, if you think it might increase your chances of keeping your job. Or be genuinely sloppy, and just "meh" your way to bliss. Doublethink can work both ways.
If one pays attention, they stand a superb chance of correctly identifying an object by sight when they're hearing fails them. The chance of correctly finding an object by sound when sight fails is much slimmer. Also, audio cues are far more easily swamped and rendered deffective, not to mention their short range. This is all pretty quantifiable.
We're members of a species that has comparably lousy hearing and pretty solid eyesight. It's no surprise that losing sight is a much more signifcant handicap than losing hearing, and that one loses access to more activities.
Besides, come on, this is hunting we're talking about. Nobody hunts their way to work. Nobody reputable, anyway.
But is it their responsibility if their waitress (a helpful service bundled with Red Lobster) misunderstands what you meant by "crabs"? Are they liable for compromising your systems and causing an infection?
How about Vs. GMail? Ever heard of plus-addressing? I've been using it lately with great results.
myemail+anythingelse@gmail.com always goes straight to myemail@gmail.com, BUT with a distinct TO address. That way you know which service sold you to spammers, and you can prop up a filter to faithfully dispose of them.
Of course, like any of these services, it only works until the big baddies find out...
Of course the real question is how many PS3 where bought by people that are going to play them? [...] Sony is selling only 1.2 games per PS3 sold while Nintendo is around 3 games per Wii.
That's the question to us, yes, but the question to Sony is "What does this mean to our net profit?" That 1.2 versus 3.0 value looks clear to us, but it isn't. Who's to say what the final profit margin is? The PS3 costs a metric fuckton more than the Wii, but we still can't guess the net.
You'll also notice how many people don't care about the average, as long as there are good games. Well, people of different mindsets buy different games and consoles. Maybe your average PS3 buyer is more content to play the snot outta the best launch title before buying the next game? If I bought any of these "next-gen" timesinks, the PS3 would be my pony of choice, and I've always been an obsess-over-one-game-until-its-played-out person.
I'm still in High School myself, and you're quite right. Now, I've been blessed with a few particularly marvelous teachers. The fact remains, though, that the very processed feeling everyone gets is what tears us down. And a lot of it is the number of arbitrary rules we follow that we haven't a prayer of changing. Example:
Our network is very heavily censored. If you use our network to browse to google.cn and view their results (with strict safesearch on), half of them will be blocked by content filters on our side of the link. We cannot download any executables or media files other than.jpg,.gif, and.png. We cannot access any sites that allow contact with the outside world, including blogs, forums, and email. Until recently, even Slashdot was blocked. They think Boing Boing is porn. Same thing with Google Image Search.
The weird thing is, the only times they've ever changed policy for the better is when we've intentionally brought down their email servers. And it just makes us geeks want to cry... the firewall serves http, and it's disgustingly vulnerable to sql injection.
We are living in one of the most liberal cities in the entirety of Northern California, and we have to deal with this level of shit every day. I shudder to think how awful admin must be in other parts of the country.
Where do we draw that line as to what validates biometrics? Does possession of a physical key qualify, as in the Super Smart Card? What if your chair had a load-cell in it, so you had to be within five pounds of the correct body weight?
Maybe we should quit agonizing over this question so much. Here's a thought: use a small highly-secure server for every x workstations. If you need something, have the local server get it from the farm and keep it there. Keep the workstations under Deep Freeze and require that those resources be access remotely, via something nice and secure like good-old password validation. Therefor, low-security tasks can be managed from the workstations using fast and easy biometric login, medium-security tasks can be done using the local server as a network drive with a text password, and high-security tasks are done via the local server, either through something like SSH or even keyed physical access.
I would kiss you, but my holographic display is on the fritz.
I'm just about to head into a combined Computer Science and Computer Engineering degree, and lemme tell you, I think you'd like the look of the course set-up. The very first programming course you take as lower division is basic assembly, and then you move up through C. They teach you right when you take CSE.
I taught myself some C++, and I'm learning Cocoa and ObjC as well. Next stop is CSS, PHP, and SQL. I've got a book on PThreading that I can't wait to get to, and two different *nix shells to learn. And I intend to take some extra electives regarding assembly and lots of kernel-level code.
My father taught me some rudimentary assembly when I was 10. When I was 12, I programmed my first PIC microcontroller. I've been programming in C for the FIRST Robotics competition and my local RoboFest. When I took a programming course last year I was offered to learn either some more advanced C++ or JAVA, and I chose the C++ because I know it's the root of all the other languages. Just because I'm majoring in a (mostly) CS path doesn't mean I have to neglect learning to sling code.
What I hope to end up with is an MS in CSE and a lot of self-taught code-monkey jitsu. I'm a coder at heart, but I also like to have a say in where a project is going. At heart I'm weeping for you guys, I swear. If I ever get to where I'm doing the hiring, I promise to put as much stock in experience as you do.
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This thing seals blisters to your face? It's possible that the "clamshell" isn't the most dangerous thing this company manufactures...
This is about a company like AT&T deciding that they want to offer a movie download service and everyone else's is going to take 1000x as long as theirs to download.
Cable TV, anyone? If unregulated, couldn't they block access to popular sites entirely unless you sign up for premium channels? And it's not just a monopoly over their own market either: AT&T could ofer downloadable movies and block access to Netflix.com
or the upcoming spaces and time machine.
...and core animation. If it's as simple and well applied / documented as everything else in Cocoa, we'll have something seriously powerful on our hands.
Does Vista have anything like this? 'Cause XP sure didn't. The difference in native support between Windows and Mac has always been a major deal-maker for me, whether it's file formats or foreign alphabets. OSX has so far seemed to provide twice the useful gadgets and doo-dads in the same memory space. I'm curious to see how Leopard stacks up against Vista on the one-line-of-code-does-tons-of-stuff scale.
3rd) Wii Sports
You're not supposed to play it long enough for the novelty to wear off. That's pretty much what bundled software is all about. The purpose is to show you something neat the controller can do, and get you wanting more games.
Now, the only one I really loved was tennis. I think Big N was aware that most players would only really love one or two of the sports. But for me, and I expect for most people, that's enough to make the control-shceme feel really exciting. Tennis is primarily timing and brute force, but it also knows an astonishing amount of information about where your hand is and how it's moving. The Wii Sports package isn't very well polished, nor is it a long-term game, but it shows the player what is to come.
integrating gaming, cable, and internet browsing.
Notice how the Nintendo Wii does two of those, and sits in such an Apple-like shell? Well, the big challenge with the Wii wasn't developing new technology, but rather doing it affordably. Imagine, then, Apple releasing a similar control scheme, using a Core (2) Duo as the processor with a MacBook derived mainboard and a tv/cable tuner built in. Throw in some basic DVR software, a really simple UI, and a big hard-drive...
When price isn't such a big factor in the design, how long would it really take? And your launch-titles would be rough-and-ready ports of all the games Mac users already enjoy. Until the fresh games start rolling down the line, it's still a really nice DVR.
I used to love this old ride called The Gravitron. There's a similar one out there called SpacShip 2000. It's a big flying-saucer looking thing with foam pads all around the insides nd no restraints or anything. Passangers stand with their backs against the pads and the ride spins them up to slightly above 1g for roughly three minutes. I'm here to tell ya, even that isn't uncomfortable. It didn't require especially fit people to go on this ride. It didn't even have a height or age requirement. Sure it was short, but it always felt to me (twice a year until I was 12) that it could've gone on quite forever. It would've gotten rather boring, though. I don't see how 0.15g could be a big deal when 1.1g is literally child's play.
What about those of us who want it dirt-cheap and don't have an IR port? Sometimes it's cheaper to buy a ringtone or two than to buy an external IR.
Then again, I'm a weird piece of the market. I use contract free, so I think I spent $1.50 on my phone this month. Could be less.
Isn't that the part that redeems the social networking system? The sorts of dark, scary, emo thoughts that teenagers tend to have a lot are a problem when locked up without communication, but pepper them across a big, ugly group of userpages and they start to look like the absurd rubbish that they are.
Remember, a bad idea that seems logical simply hasn't been seen in the correct light. In this case, that light happens to be red text on a blue background.
"Four legs good, two legs bad. And FP!"
Ok, in my experience, FP means "Furry Porn." Couldja help me out here?
That'd make the game behave noticeably differently on the two platforms.
You mean like Halo? You mean like every fps ever? Simply switching control formats alters the experience pretty drastically, so it seems logical for the game itself to be a bit different too.
It should be good for Apple regardless, in that major holes are id'd and can be fixed, or their security reputation is improved.
Just in time to incorporate new procedures into Leopard to boot.
Consumers: We're hearing about bugs in Mac now! wtf can we get viruses?!?!?!
Apple: Very probably not, but if you upgrade to Leopard we can guarantee no viruses!
Done and done.
It's because of the domain-name lawsuit. Now, sure, this happens all the time. On that face, it wouldn't be news. But the fact that MGM does this to the geek community with one hand while making a geek/hacker movie with the other is what we might call "dropping the gauntlet." It's not the foul that makes it news-worthy, it's the flagrancy.
Also, IMHO, the reason why big companies can step on people this way is because they know that the worst this community can do is blog about it. More front-end organizations with legal clout might be the sollution, but between the EFF and the ACLU, it seems that slinging legal bullshit back at the legal bullshitters has been more or less useless. Frankly, it's impressive that such an old-school system of broken laws and financially repressive legal systems has managed to stymy the collective creativity of our entire community.
You're always so mean to me :{
on one side, you should care because the market wants it enough to whip it into existence, and someday there may be those of us that must support it, or be compatible with it, or whatever happens to be necessary to keep a clap-trap M$ desktop-server running. Think about what this thing does and what it's used for, and then decide if it's a problem we should be worrying about. This especially applies with those on the ground handling networks and working with desktop software.
*goes back to his hardware*
So who wants to lead the charge? ...Bueller?
Heaven forbid they should perhaps consider the regulations as silly as everyone else.
How do you protest a bad regulation? Don't enforce it! Feel free to diguise your efforts as sloppiness, if you think it might increase your chances of keeping your job. Or be genuinely sloppy, and just "meh" your way to bliss. Doublethink can work both ways.
Yet another way for people to get into car accidents, fall down stairs, and walk into poles!
...other than me clubbing them over the head with copies of Norton, XP Home, and Duke Nukem Forever. >:}
If one pays attention, they stand a superb chance of correctly identifying an object by sight when they're hearing fails them. The chance of correctly finding an object by sound when sight fails is much slimmer. Also, audio cues are far more easily swamped and rendered deffective, not to mention their short range. This is all pretty quantifiable.
We're members of a species that has comparably lousy hearing and pretty solid eyesight. It's no surprise that losing sight is a much more signifcant handicap than losing hearing, and that one loses access to more activities.
Besides, come on, this is hunting we're talking about. Nobody hunts their way to work. Nobody reputable, anyway.
But is it their responsibility if their waitress (a helpful service bundled with Red Lobster) misunderstands what you meant by "crabs"? Are they liable for compromising your systems and causing an infection?
D:
Dude, they have sex duplicate?! Man, I never thought I'd say this, but...
I want a government job!
How about Vs. GMail? Ever heard of plus-addressing? I've been using it lately with great results.
myemail+anythingelse@gmail.com always goes straight to myemail@gmail.com, BUT with a distinct TO address. That way you know which service sold you to spammers, and you can prop up a filter to faithfully dispose of them.
Of course, like any of these services, it only works until the big baddies find out...
That's the question to us, yes, but the question to Sony is "What does this mean to our net profit?" That 1.2 versus 3.0 value looks clear to us, but it isn't. Who's to say what the final profit margin is? The PS3 costs a metric fuckton more than the Wii, but we still can't guess the net.
You'll also notice how many people don't care about the average, as long as there are good games. Well, people of different mindsets buy different games and consoles. Maybe your average PS3 buyer is more content to play the snot outta the best launch title before buying the next game? If I bought any of these "next-gen" timesinks, the PS3 would be my pony of choice, and I've always been an obsess-over-one-game-until-its-played-out person.
I'm still in High School myself, and you're quite right. Now, I've been blessed with a few particularly marvelous teachers. The fact remains, though, that the very processed feeling everyone gets is what tears us down. And a lot of it is the number of arbitrary rules we follow that we haven't a prayer of changing. Example:
.jpg, .gif, and .png. We cannot access any sites that allow contact with the outside world, including blogs, forums, and email. Until recently, even Slashdot was blocked. They think Boing Boing is porn. Same thing with Google Image Search.
Our network is very heavily censored. If you use our network to browse to google.cn and view their results (with strict safesearch on), half of them will be blocked by content filters on our side of the link. We cannot download any executables or media files other than
The weird thing is, the only times they've ever changed policy for the better is when we've intentionally brought down their email servers. And it just makes us geeks want to cry... the firewall serves http, and it's disgustingly vulnerable to sql injection.
We are living in one of the most liberal cities in the entirety of Northern California, and we have to deal with this level of shit every day. I shudder to think how awful admin must be in other parts of the country.
Where do we draw that line as to what validates biometrics? Does possession of a physical key qualify, as in the Super Smart Card? What if your chair had a load-cell in it, so you had to be within five pounds of the correct body weight?
Memorizing a password is not perfect either, ya know. Security is always best-effort.
Maybe we should quit agonizing over this question so much. Here's a thought: use a small highly-secure server for every x workstations. If you need something, have the local server get it from the farm and keep it there. Keep the workstations under Deep Freeze and require that those resources be access remotely, via something nice and secure like good-old password validation. Therefor, low-security tasks can be managed from the workstations using fast and easy biometric login, medium-security tasks can be done using the local server as a network drive with a text password, and high-security tasks are done via the local server, either through something like SSH or even keyed physical access.
Anybody like that idea?
I would kiss you, but my holographic display is on the fritz.
I'm just about to head into a combined Computer Science and Computer Engineering degree, and lemme tell you, I think you'd like the look of the course set-up. The very first programming course you take as lower division is basic assembly, and then you move up through C. They teach you right when you take CSE.
I taught myself some C++, and I'm learning Cocoa and ObjC as well. Next stop is CSS, PHP, and SQL. I've got a book on PThreading that I can't wait to get to, and two different *nix shells to learn. And I intend to take some extra electives regarding assembly and lots of kernel-level code.
My father taught me some rudimentary assembly when I was 10. When I was 12, I programmed my first PIC microcontroller. I've been programming in C for the FIRST Robotics competition and my local RoboFest. When I took a programming course last year I was offered to learn either some more advanced C++ or JAVA, and I chose the C++ because I know it's the root of all the other languages. Just because I'm majoring in a (mostly) CS path doesn't mean I have to neglect learning to sling code.
What I hope to end up with is an MS in CSE and a lot of self-taught code-monkey jitsu. I'm a coder at heart, but I also like to have a say in where a project is going. At heart I'm weeping for you guys, I swear. If I ever get to where I'm doing the hiring, I promise to put as much stock in experience as you do.