The original NYT article has the following quote (emphasis mine):
"The idea of full downloadable games is so far in the future that it's almost incomprehensible as an opportunity," Mr. Kotick said. But he added that there were more immediately plausible revenue opportunities from selling downloads of supplemental game levels or "characters, new weapons, new missions, or auctioning off places" in a virtual world.
So, as you can see, his words were taken a bit out of context. His opinion is that small downloadable content like expansions will sell, but not an entire 5GB game. Still a bit misguided, considering the success of Steam, but not as bad as the article makes it out to be.
The city of Tucson is actually sinking. If California starts using more desalinization instead of leeching off the Colorado, it might make room for cities without ocean access to start using more river water. Or people might just keep bitching about how treated water tastes so bad.
Most of the southwest United States has been in a drought for the past 20 years or so. And the city of Tucson is actually sinking. If California starts using more (cheap) desalinization plants instead of leeching off the Colorado, it might make room for cities without ocean access to start using more river water instead of pumping it out of the overtaxed water tables. Or people might just keep bitching about how treated water tastes so bad.
Why do people try to do physical things to "destroy" magnetic media?
Ideally one should do both. If the data is really that important, write ones and zeroes over it, take the drive out, and physically mutilate it (with a sledgehammer, industrial shredder, slag-pool-at-the-end-of-Terminator-2, et cetera). With the right forensic tools, those with a lot of resources could still theoretically recover some data from a magnetically wiped or improperly degaussed drive. Same with one that's been broken into 20 small pieces with a sledgehammer. But probably not both.
I was going to post the full text of the article, but there's no real point. Most of the "pages" just have three or four photos of parts of the case. The meat of the article is on page 26 for those who are actually interested. Ignore the last 2 pages, they're basically ads for "input devices that light up". Two entire PAGES with no relevance to the article topic at all. Man, what the hell happened to Tom's Hardware? You guys used to be good.
But assuming the cores go out of sync because of an error (not an outright lockup), how would you know which core is wrong? For true failsafe reliability you'd need a 3rd core as well as some extra logic. If 1 core disagrees with the other 2 it gets shut down and the system keeps working. But if the cores are on the same chip, you can't exactly hotswap one of the cores out like you could hotswap a failed RAID 1 drive. I don't see how this would be useful.
No no no, it's so that when thieves break into your car and steal your stereo, they can't go and steal your car too! See the logic? Of course we haven't yet figured out what to do if they steal the car and THEN remove the stereo in a chop shop. Give us a few more months and we'll have it worked out.
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The original NYT article has the following quote (emphasis mine):
So, as you can see, his words were taken a bit out of context. His opinion is that small downloadable content like expansions will sell, but not an entire 5GB game. Still a bit misguided, considering the success of Steam, but not as bad as the article makes it out to be.
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The city of Tucson is actually sinking. If California starts using more desalinization instead of leeching off the Colorado, it might make room for cities without ocean access to start using more river water. Or people might just keep bitching about how treated water tastes so bad.
Most of the southwest United States has been in a drought for the past 20 years or so. And the city of Tucson is actually sinking. If California starts using more (cheap) desalinization plants instead of leeching off the Colorado, it might make room for cities without ocean access to start using more river water instead of pumping it out of the overtaxed water tables. Or people might just keep bitching about how treated water tastes so bad.
Think Deus Ex, if you've ever played it? Nevermind, I guess it's a bad joke if I have to explain it.
You didn't happen to work for a company called "UNATCO", did you? I know a lot of their passwords were like that.
Heh, true enough. But sledgehammers are fun when the drive is crashed out. Or not.
DAMN... HARD... DRIVE... I'll teach you to crash!
Great stress relief in any case.
Why do people try to do physical things to "destroy" magnetic media?
Ideally one should do both. If the data is really that important, write ones and zeroes over it, take the drive out, and physically mutilate it (with a sledgehammer, industrial shredder, slag-pool-at-the-end-of-Terminator-2, et cetera). With the right forensic tools, those with a lot of resources could still theoretically recover some data from a magnetically wiped or improperly degaussed drive. Same with one that's been broken into 20 small pieces with a sledgehammer. But probably not both.
I was going to post the full text of the article, but there's no real point. Most of the "pages" just have three or four photos of parts of the case. The meat of the article is on page 26 for those who are actually interested. Ignore the last 2 pages, they're basically ads for "input devices that light up". Two entire PAGES with no relevance to the article topic at all. Man, what the hell happened to Tom's Hardware? You guys used to be good.
I'm not a Libratarian
A "Libratarian"? What's that? Is it a cross between a librarian and a Libertarian? Maybe someone who eats nothing but books?
Might it also be used in windows, so that unwanted light could be blocked at times, then the lens would be adjusted to let more light through?
But if you blocked all unwanted light from Windows, you'd get a black screen. How is that useful?
You've beaten me to point number 3, and said it better than I could. Well done.
802.11 assault rifles.
How is 11/100ths of a rifle useful at all?
Yes, please. Read it to me.
Yet more proof that the Internet can be a real bastard.
Suddenly throwing in a new, repetitive movement that you like enough to perform for hours on end might just be interesting.
Are you suggesting it has implications for the adult gaming industry as well?
Hey, I live in Sendai, you insensitive clod! (Really.)
But assuming the cores go out of sync because of an error (not an outright lockup), how would you know which core is wrong? For true failsafe reliability you'd need a 3rd core as well as some extra logic. If 1 core disagrees with the other 2 it gets shut down and the system keeps working. But if the cores are on the same chip, you can't exactly hotswap one of the cores out like you could hotswap a failed RAID 1 drive. I don't see how this would be useful.
Ask slashdot: Which is better, open source or [government entity]?
Wow, talk about a loaded question.
Someone mod parent informative, please. Nails it right on the head.
You misspelled "misspelled".
Mod parent up.
The physics of radio waves aren't going to change anytime soon. Plus, a camera on a phone in Asia isn't an optional feature.
No no no, it's so that when thieves break into your car and steal your stereo, they can't go and steal your car too! See the logic? Of course we haven't yet figured out what to do if they steal the car and THEN remove the stereo in a chop shop. Give us a few more months and we'll have it worked out.
The original link is to the images and captions. Here's a link to the actual article.
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/mar20 06/id20060317_074043.htm
The Tour de France in one day?
It's called a motorcycle. But they don't allow those in the official Tour, and I doubt they'll allow synthetic muscles either.