Funny, I was thinking the same thing. If there's a species out there we can't wipe out of existence, we haven't found it and wiped it out of existence yet.
Actually, it does. If you're replenishing the oil using food sources from above ground, there'd be a minimal impact on global warming. The carbon would come from the atmosphere and go back.
While we're not running out of room, at least in most parts of the world, we are running the risk of running out of food and clean water. Space doesn't do you a damned bit of good if you haven't got food and water.
Adobe reader is kind of a challenge. With Java that's easy. If I really want to be safe, I go down to the local Starbucks with a thermometer and measure the temperature before I move it. I have yet to get burned by hot coffee when doing it like that.
That's not the same thing. You should be able to run the programs both at low integrity level and in a sandbox. The point of the sandbox is to keep the program segregated from the rest of the programs in case somebody manages to find an exploit to elevate privileges. They'd have root, but they'd have root in the sandbox and would have to then break out of the sandbox to do much.
What's fucked up about the US is that "austerity measures" is just a code word for we're going to cut funding to things which even out the income distribution and welfare. So, that we can send the money to the rich who apparently are capable of printing money. Also that people are more concerned with the welfare of parasitic billionaires that the folks that actually produce the wealth.
I'm really curious as to where the wealth in the US comes from, because it apparently doesn't actually involve anybody having to work for it.
The problem is that with the banks the collateral damage from allowing them to fail was more or less catastrophic, at least as bad as what we'd seen in the depression of the 1890s and the equally horrific Great Depression. Taking steps ahead of time would've eliminated the necessity to step in like that at the last moment.
It's not like it wasn't common knowledge that those corporations had grown to the point where they weren't competing.
As opposed to the current business practice of bolting on a tin can solution to a gold plated problem? I mean seriously, corporations rarely if ever spend enough on cyber security. A lot of the massive exploits were only accomplished because the corporation that got ripped off wasn't even implementing the most basic policies.
Having the government threaten to take over their network if they aren't properly secure it would likely go a long ways towards them actually behaving responsibly, even if the government never does it.
That's invariable, if you could put in a new graphics card or RAM it wouldn't really be a console anymore. The XBox 360 in particular is really testing the limits of what can reasonably be called a console, as it's more or less a standard computer with a custom OS. At least the PS3 has a non-standard processor.
Was it a gimmick? If you've got a 360, the odds are fairly good that you're not the core demographic driving the wii sales. The biggest problem that the Wii has is the space requirement, and I think Sony is the only one of the three that's apparently dealt with that. MS seeming to think that we all have living rooms the size of a high school gym.
Actually, a bad dev kit can just about kill a platform in the absence of any other problems with the console. If you're not mindful about what registers to include and how well the dev kit works, you can easily stall yourself out of the critical period around launch.
Indeed, I'm guessing that what's probably happening is that they're taking advantage of the Wii to delay the successor as long as they can. Presumably they're going to use the extra time to improve it to the point where it's even better.
The iPhone was basically just an iPod except as a cell phone and the App store is basically just the ITMS for apps. There wasn't anywhere near as much innovation there as people seem to think. Sure they took the buttons away, but Steve Jobs would take away the buttons on a TV if he could get away with it, the man hates buttons with a passion.
It's easy to call the iPhone revolutionary if you ignore the ideas and technology they took from elsewhere. It doesn't magically become revolutionary simply because you apply already accessible techniques to a different area.
I don't think that the games are necessarily easier, I think it's more that the design process is better now than it used to be. I think people expect that the computer will do less cheating and that there'll be a reasonable fight.
I also think that if games were easier now, that the OP would be complaining about that rather than people finishing to few of them. People don't generally quit games in the middle if they're too easy unless they're also too boring.
I remember playing through that GBA King Kong game. That one was either too easy or too short, not sure which, but I definitely played through it.
Fallout New Vegas is easily that sort of time suck. My first run through to just about the end took a full work week. I was just about at the end, when I got to a point where I was going to have to drop hardcore to finish so I started over.
Also Assassin's Creed II, Prototype and probably Batman Arkham Asylum are serious time sucks.
I've been wondering that myself. Personally, I've finished more games in the last year, than I did during the entire 90s. It seems like the games don't cheat the way that they used to. Sure there's still cheating that goes on, but for the most part the games I'm playing don't come with the temptation that they used to in terms of looking up strategy guides.
Fallout NV isn't quite as good as 3 when it comes to roaming around the wasteland, but it is fun to do, and after ending the game enough times, I just ~tgm and player.additem $x to try all the weapons in different scenarios. It is kinda nice to have a silenced, scoped sniper rifle at level 2, just to go postal on some bad guys. Obviously, this is what the creators intended as they made it very easy to do.
If by that you mean eliminated the tedium and annoyance of walking 30 minutes to the next interesting point and doing combat with mole rats for no particular reason, then I completely agree with you. The wasteland in FO3 wasn't particularly interested. Sure you'd run into raiders, but they weren't particularly compelling, and rarely dropped any good loot. At least in New Vegas when you run into Fiends you at least get a sense that they're not just something out of a Clockwork Orange. That there's some point beyond just ultra violence and a bit of in and out going on.
That was my first reaction. Rather than fix the problem, AT&T realized that they can charge you a fee to use somebody else's bandwidth as a work around to their incompetence and/or greed.
That's somewhat reasonable if your in say a bunker or on the back side of an apartment building, but it's really not legitimate when you're talking about a typical single family residence. There just isn't enough material to block the signal and the carrier has some responsibility to place the cell towers in appropriate places. AT&T deciding to put all their towers north and south of Seattle pretty clearly fails to understand how RF transmission works.
Going through hills makes transmission tough unless you bounce the signal off the ionosphere. Ultimately they'd provide better service with a larger number of lower power towers arranged through the city.
But when you get down to it, you shouldn't get significant changes in reception by walking a few feet further away from the tower, further into the building I might add.
Good luck with Sprint, the voice reception is better with Sprint than AT&T, but their support sucks, and I don't think that CDMA does as well with data. Not sure about that, but it does mean that you can't take the phone to the other carriers. Even if it's the same model, Sprint won't let it be activated unless it has their branding on it. Which is why I canceled my account. I shouldn't have to buy a phone that's been silk screened with their logo just so that they'll activate it.
I find it deeply concerning that he got away with rape. The original account which he was allowed to plead down from wasn't a simple matter of statutory rape, it was definitely what everybody agrees is rape. He was allowed to plead down to lesser charges then flee the country and likely won't ever serve whatever the meager sentence would have been because the countries involved apparently thinks that it's OK to rape children if you're a prominent celebrity.
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Funny, I was thinking the same thing. If there's a species out there we can't wipe out of existence, we haven't found it and wiped it out of existence yet.
Actually, it does. If you're replenishing the oil using food sources from above ground, there'd be a minimal impact on global warming. The carbon would come from the atmosphere and go back.
While we're not running out of room, at least in most parts of the world, we are running the risk of running out of food and clean water. Space doesn't do you a damned bit of good if you haven't got food and water.
Adobe reader is kind of a challenge. With Java that's easy. If I really want to be safe, I go down to the local Starbucks with a thermometer and measure the temperature before I move it. I have yet to get burned by hot coffee when doing it like that.
That's not the same thing. You should be able to run the programs both at low integrity level and in a sandbox. The point of the sandbox is to keep the program segregated from the rest of the programs in case somebody manages to find an exploit to elevate privileges. They'd have root, but they'd have root in the sandbox and would have to then break out of the sandbox to do much.
You can just use Sandboxie it'll do that for pretty much any program you wish.
What's fucked up about the US is that "austerity measures" is just a code word for we're going to cut funding to things which even out the income distribution and welfare. So, that we can send the money to the rich who apparently are capable of printing money. Also that people are more concerned with the welfare of parasitic billionaires that the folks that actually produce the wealth.
I'm really curious as to where the wealth in the US comes from, because it apparently doesn't actually involve anybody having to work for it.
The problem is that with the banks the collateral damage from allowing them to fail was more or less catastrophic, at least as bad as what we'd seen in the depression of the 1890s and the equally horrific Great Depression. Taking steps ahead of time would've eliminated the necessity to step in like that at the last moment.
It's not like it wasn't common knowledge that those corporations had grown to the point where they weren't competing.
As opposed to the current business practice of bolting on a tin can solution to a gold plated problem? I mean seriously, corporations rarely if ever spend enough on cyber security. A lot of the massive exploits were only accomplished because the corporation that got ripped off wasn't even implementing the most basic policies.
Having the government threaten to take over their network if they aren't properly secure it would likely go a long ways towards them actually behaving responsibly, even if the government never does it.
That's invariable, if you could put in a new graphics card or RAM it wouldn't really be a console anymore. The XBox 360 in particular is really testing the limits of what can reasonably be called a console, as it's more or less a standard computer with a custom OS. At least the PS3 has a non-standard processor.
Of course it won't be Wii 2, it'll be Super Wii.
Was it a gimmick? If you've got a 360, the odds are fairly good that you're not the core demographic driving the wii sales. The biggest problem that the Wii has is the space requirement, and I think Sony is the only one of the three that's apparently dealt with that. MS seeming to think that we all have living rooms the size of a high school gym.
Actually, a bad dev kit can just about kill a platform in the absence of any other problems with the console. If you're not mindful about what registers to include and how well the dev kit works, you can easily stall yourself out of the critical period around launch.
Ah, yes the gameboy model.
Indeed, I'm guessing that what's probably happening is that they're taking advantage of the Wii to delay the successor as long as they can. Presumably they're going to use the extra time to improve it to the point where it's even better.
The iPhone was basically just an iPod except as a cell phone and the App store is basically just the ITMS for apps. There wasn't anywhere near as much innovation there as people seem to think. Sure they took the buttons away, but Steve Jobs would take away the buttons on a TV if he could get away with it, the man hates buttons with a passion.
It's easy to call the iPhone revolutionary if you ignore the ideas and technology they took from elsewhere. It doesn't magically become revolutionary simply because you apply already accessible techniques to a different area.
FWIW the GOTY edition on PS3 crashed significantly less often than my PC version. Not sure why, but I didn't have much trouble with that copy.
I don't think that the games are necessarily easier, I think it's more that the design process is better now than it used to be. I think people expect that the computer will do less cheating and that there'll be a reasonable fight.
I also think that if games were easier now, that the OP would be complaining about that rather than people finishing to few of them. People don't generally quit games in the middle if they're too easy unless they're also too boring.
I remember playing through that GBA King Kong game. That one was either too easy or too short, not sure which, but I definitely played through it.
Fallout New Vegas is easily that sort of time suck. My first run through to just about the end took a full work week. I was just about at the end, when I got to a point where I was going to have to drop hardcore to finish so I started over.
Also Assassin's Creed II, Prototype and probably Batman Arkham Asylum are serious time sucks.
I've been wondering that myself. Personally, I've finished more games in the last year, than I did during the entire 90s. It seems like the games don't cheat the way that they used to. Sure there's still cheating that goes on, but for the most part the games I'm playing don't come with the temptation that they used to in terms of looking up strategy guides.
Fallout NV isn't quite as good as 3 when it comes to roaming around the wasteland, but it is fun to do, and after ending the game enough times, I just ~tgm and player.additem $x to try all the weapons in different scenarios. It is kinda nice to have a silenced, scoped sniper rifle at level 2, just to go postal on some bad guys. Obviously, this is what the creators intended as they made it very easy to do.
If by that you mean eliminated the tedium and annoyance of walking 30 minutes to the next interesting point and doing combat with mole rats for no particular reason, then I completely agree with you. The wasteland in FO3 wasn't particularly interested. Sure you'd run into raiders, but they weren't particularly compelling, and rarely dropped any good loot. At least in New Vegas when you run into Fiends you at least get a sense that they're not just something out of a Clockwork Orange. That there's some point beyond just ultra violence and a bit of in and out going on.
That was my first reaction. Rather than fix the problem, AT&T realized that they can charge you a fee to use somebody else's bandwidth as a work around to their incompetence and/or greed.
That's somewhat reasonable if your in say a bunker or on the back side of an apartment building, but it's really not legitimate when you're talking about a typical single family residence. There just isn't enough material to block the signal and the carrier has some responsibility to place the cell towers in appropriate places. AT&T deciding to put all their towers north and south of Seattle pretty clearly fails to understand how RF transmission works.
Going through hills makes transmission tough unless you bounce the signal off the ionosphere. Ultimately they'd provide better service with a larger number of lower power towers arranged through the city.
But when you get down to it, you shouldn't get significant changes in reception by walking a few feet further away from the tower, further into the building I might add.
Good luck with Sprint, the voice reception is better with Sprint than AT&T, but their support sucks, and I don't think that CDMA does as well with data. Not sure about that, but it does mean that you can't take the phone to the other carriers. Even if it's the same model, Sprint won't let it be activated unless it has their branding on it. Which is why I canceled my account. I shouldn't have to buy a phone that's been silk screened with their logo just so that they'll activate it.
I find it deeply concerning that he got away with rape. The original account which he was allowed to plead down from wasn't a simple matter of statutory rape, it was definitely what everybody agrees is rape. He was allowed to plead down to lesser charges then flee the country and likely won't ever serve whatever the meager sentence would have been because the countries involved apparently thinks that it's OK to rape children if you're a prominent celebrity.