And the biggest problem players are having is that the Leader Boards and all scores in general have been wiped. Even if the playerbase somehow convinced EA to use the old code, their playing histories have been wiped.
If I was playing it, it would be a perfect escape opportunity, since most Facebook games heavily leverage the whole Stockholm Syndrome thing with their player base.
Until very recently I was still getting spam from the Moveon.org organization, which is registered by the same IRS classification that the 'Tea Party' groups were seeking to obtain.
That classification can not be obtained by organizations specifically organized to advocate a specific candidate. If Moveon can be registered that what, so can just about any other group. But people like you will still make your ignorant claims. Was it a moveon mailing that you got your talking points from??
Apple implemented a kill function on my 2nd Gen iPod and recently my 3rd Gen iPod. It takes awhile for the news to trickle down to the app developers, but your apps slowly cease to update and go unsupported. Then you're supposed to buy a new iPod, or do what I did: buy a Virgin Mobile ($35/mo 'unlimited' data plan) Android phone to replace it.
It's be a lot more fun if someone tooled up an Android app that implemented an iPhone kill switch, though. I can flip a switch and brick it. Sounds fun!
So then Bruce Schneier has no place in security? [schneier.com]
Correct. Schneier wrote a book on crypto, at the time as a non-expert on crypto, because nobody else would write it. He used the fame that came from that book to build around himself the idea that he is a security expert. Really, he has a blog and a company. And a following, of course.
What you're really saying is that as our instrumentation has improved, our ability to measure smaller and smaller amounts of a substance has improved. So both contamination levels, and effects from said contamination levels can be measured far below a meaningful threshold.
That's the kind of thing that created the Arsenic-Poision-in-our-drinking-water hysteria that (spontaneously, *snort*) erupted shortly after Dubya became president. It was easier to measure smaller amounts of contamination, and we'd just switched from a D to an R president. Whoop! Whoop! Hysteria!
Zero-tolerance programs can't simply be ratcheted up 'just because.' The widespread use of leaded fuel in the past was atrocious. Narrow specialized usage? Not so bad.
There's arsenic doping in some semiconductors. Should we ban your computer because there might be parts-per-hundred-trillion of arsenic in a confined area where your computer is disposed of?
It's really impressive how much you know about NASCAR and the culture that surrounds it. It shows how sophisticated you are when you issue comments like the above.
How are you making $250 an hour if you're not capable of using a commodity PC running the mainstream OS? Are you in sales? Are there tassels on your shoes?
You built your Mac? Kudos! I wouldn't want a system that I just lifted out of the box and scanned over the giant quick-start sheet to set up, either. Computers are too hard!
Yep. That's what has all the sales-floor drones all jumping around. They make their money jacking up the final price with expensive add-ons.
"For the investment* you're making, I recommend you buy these $120 cables. It would be a mistake to scrimp on this great system you're getting.,"
(*not a real investment, of course. In two years there will be stuff in the App store you can't run, because Apple will have discontinued OS updates for this model)
China, to 'cash in a few billion dollars' has to get it from the US. Squeezing blood from a rock is what that makes me think of.
Admittedly the above keeps the peace right now. China becoming a hostile military force could cause the US to just nullify the debt. I don't think the Chinese bondholders want to be stiffed.
The thing is, everybody by definition in IT 'gets in the way.' Because you're just there to move and shove the information around. And since this is an IT centric site there is a preponderance of people who see the computer and IT tech as an end-all in and of itself.
Everybody else, including most of the other people in the businesses that you work in, find the data more important than the tools used to shuttle the data about.
IT people in a sense are the electronic equivalent of filing cabinet enthusiasts. Ranting about whether Steelcase makes the best filing cabinets, whether manilla is the best color for file folders, etc. It's easy to get in the way of the people designing, building, and shipping the real product of the company when you're preoccupied that way.
And guess what: you'll have a new job at Kinkos when the line gets stopped because a trivial update that could have been conducted online is missed because the vendor didn't send someone onsite.
Your job in IT is to support. Not run things. Now be a good IT worker and go change the toner in the LJ4 up on third floor east.
sooner or later apple is already getting fucked on the devices they can make because if they make another device with another pixel density then it adds up directly as manual work for every developer.
Apple just abandons the older versions of their hardware. They'e abandoned two of my iPod Touches now. The third one I bought about a year ago but it's due to be abandoned shortly.
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And the biggest problem players are having is that the Leader Boards and all scores in general have been wiped. Even if the playerbase somehow convinced EA to use the old code, their playing histories have been wiped.
If I was playing it, it would be a perfect escape opportunity, since most Facebook games heavily leverage the whole Stockholm Syndrome thing with their player base.
Until very recently I was still getting spam from the Moveon.org organization, which is registered by the same IRS classification that the 'Tea Party' groups were seeking to obtain.
That classification can not be obtained by organizations specifically organized to advocate a specific candidate. If Moveon can be registered that what, so can just about any other group. But people like you will still make your ignorant claims. Was it a moveon mailing that you got your talking points from??
Apple implemented a kill function on my 2nd Gen iPod and recently my 3rd Gen iPod. It takes awhile for the news to trickle down to the app developers, but your apps slowly cease to update and go unsupported. Then you're supposed to buy a new iPod, or do what I did: buy a Virgin Mobile ($35/mo 'unlimited' data plan) Android phone to replace it.
It's be a lot more fun if someone tooled up an Android app that implemented an iPhone kill switch, though. I can flip a switch and brick it. Sounds fun!
Babies in cars cause them all the time for example. Under that reasoning, babies should be banned from cars.
I could go for that. Instead of a mandatory car seat in the back, a mandatory Skinner Box in the trunk.
It already exists. It's called a Bus.
Thus, there's no excuse. If you're a social butterfly (moth?) who positively can't travel for a short while without 'social networking' take the bus.
Too bad I can't get a cap-touch stylus that doesn't feel like writing with a crayon on my small screen.
It's not a bipolar situation. Neither the NSC, CIA or the Chinese are on 'our' team.
And who the fuck is the ref, anyway? I wanna call a few fouls.
So then Bruce Schneier has no place in security? [schneier.com]
Correct. Schneier wrote a book on crypto, at the time as a non-expert on crypto, because nobody else would write it. He used the fame that came from that book to build around himself the idea that he is a security expert. Really, he has a blog and a company. And a following, of course.
What you're really saying is that as our instrumentation has improved, our ability to measure smaller and smaller amounts of a substance has improved. So both contamination levels, and effects from said contamination levels can be measured far below a meaningful threshold.
That's the kind of thing that created the Arsenic-Poision-in-our-drinking-water hysteria that (spontaneously, *snort*) erupted shortly after Dubya became president. It was easier to measure smaller amounts of contamination, and we'd just switched from a D to an R president. Whoop! Whoop! Hysteria!
So what you're saying is only the ultra-rich should be allowed to fly without standing in a strip-search line at the airport?
That's very egalitarian of you.
Zero-tolerance programs can't simply be ratcheted up 'just because.' The widespread use of leaded fuel in the past was atrocious. Narrow specialized usage? Not so bad.
There's arsenic doping in some semiconductors. Should we ban your computer because there might be parts-per-hundred-trillion of arsenic in a confined area where your computer is disposed of?
It's really impressive how much you know about NASCAR and the culture that surrounds it. It shows how sophisticated you are when you issue comments like the above.
Can't we run Tux Racer on OtherOS???
Maybe even PySol?
Macs have never been made for the Pro market.
They're marketed like the Maharishi markets a religion. Be honest, that's the deal here.
When I was a kid there was always one fucker on the street with a Schwinn bike. Nobody liked him. We rode around on cheap Huffys.
How are you making $250 an hour if you're not capable of using a commodity PC running the mainstream OS? Are you in sales? Are there tassels on your shoes?
You built your Mac? Kudos! I wouldn't want a system that I just lifted out of the box and scanned over the giant quick-start sheet to set up, either. Computers are too hard!
We don't care how much you make, BTW.
Yep. That's what has all the sales-floor drones all jumping around. They make their money jacking up the final price with expensive add-ons.
"For the investment* you're making, I recommend you buy these $120 cables. It would be a mistake to scrimp on this great system you're getting.,"
(*not a real investment, of course. In two years there will be stuff in the App store you can't run, because Apple will have discontinued OS updates for this model)
That's a tricky bit, though.
China, to 'cash in a few billion dollars' has to get it from the US. Squeezing blood from a rock is what that makes me think of.
Admittedly the above keeps the peace right now. China becoming a hostile military force could cause the US to just nullify the debt. I don't think the Chinese bondholders want to be stiffed.
The thing is, everybody by definition in IT 'gets in the way.' Because you're just there to move and shove the information around. And since this is an IT centric site there is a preponderance of people who see the computer and IT tech as an end-all in and of itself.
Everybody else, including most of the other people in the businesses that you work in, find the data more important than the tools used to shuttle the data about.
IT people in a sense are the electronic equivalent of filing cabinet enthusiasts. Ranting about whether Steelcase makes the best filing cabinets, whether manilla is the best color for file folders, etc. It's easy to get in the way of the people designing, building, and shipping the real product of the company when you're preoccupied that way.
And guess what: you'll have a new job at Kinkos when the line gets stopped because a trivial update that could have been conducted online is missed because the vendor didn't send someone onsite.
Your job in IT is to support. Not run things. Now be a good IT worker and go change the toner in the LJ4 up on third floor east.
There's already a release of Shufflepuck Cafe for Android. Why would you need MacOS Classic anywhere? (My SE/30 runs NetBSD.)
I'd like virtual iOS mode for Android. It should be easy, since there really isn't any iOS feature that isn't a subset of what's available on Android.
A lot of us have come to figure that out.
sooner or later apple is already getting fucked on the devices they can make because if they make another device with another pixel density then it adds up directly as manual work for every developer.
Apple just abandons the older versions of their hardware. They'e abandoned two of my iPod Touches now. The third one I bought about a year ago but it's due to be abandoned shortly.
That would cause iOS to lose it's Apple identity.