Aww c'mon now, you know it's gonna be League of Rock N' Roll Racing. You'll have five character classes: Driver, pit crew, rocker (think Guitar Hero), announcer, and... Olaf!
Apple, when questioned about why they don't sell the PC-compatible version of their OS, has stated time and again that they are a hardware company, as opposed to a software company. This statement alone completely negates any position they may take for trying to take down Microsoft (a software company) as a competitor. It also flies in the face of their own marketing campaign.
If Apple ever wants to seriously compete in anything but the portable music player market, they need to stop being so wishy-washy. Are they selling a Mac bundled with a supported OS, or just the Mac OS bundled with supported hardware?
I personally haven't had any major issues that I'd attribute to Vista itself. Here is the short laundry list of problems I have run into:
--Driver unavailability from Creative Labs (audio) and HP (scanner). These have been resolved by the manufacturers. I don't hold any OS manufacturer responsible for writing a hardware manufacturer's code for them, especially when the hardware company is as big as Creative Labs or HP. MS is off the hook for that one.
--Slow startup. XP is a hard act to follow for cold-boot startup times, but I really expected more (less?) from Vista. Round-trip times for reboots were agonizingly slow, as shutdowns could take up to a full minute. MS takes the full blame for this one, as even a clean install is simply slow as hell during reboots. ReadyBoost didn't make a noticeable difference.
--Transcode360 doesn't work well with Vista. This is practically a showstopper for me, as it kept me from having to dedicate a system for HTPC usage. I could just use my Xbox 360 to stream any video regardless of codec. Again, I don't blame MS for this, especially since T360 is a closed-source beta.
--System instability after installing recent ATI Vista drivers. This was the final straw that sent me back to XP, simply because I don't think everyone else is ready for Vista yet, not the other way around.
--AVG antivirus became horribly broken after a system restore.
My system was rock-solid until that ATI driver install, which started an endless BSOD-on-startup cycle. After trying System Restore, AVG would neither run nor allow reinstall so I decided to nuke the site from orbit. It was the only way to be sure. I've gone back to XP MCE for now to let the Vista software world mature a little more. Still, I think Vista is a good OS, even if it's a bit slow, and doesn't deserve all this hate. The author's statement of "unfit for any user" is way off the mark. In my experience, it's perfect for most users, and only seems to run into problems when you start using untested software.
I just tested it on my PS3. Blu-ray output fell back to 480p when I disabled 1080i and 1080p on my TV, leaving only 480p and 720p. Apparently they haven't fixed it yet.
Don't you mean million and million? The population of New Mexico is only about 1.9 million. I'm not sure what percentage of that census count included (or excluded) people who are eligible to vote.
How about we just change the homework system to match the overtime systems found in the real world?
Homework in its current state teaches kids that your work outside of your normal schedule is encouraged and will be rewarded somehow. Overtime in its current state teaches adults that you'd better get everything done in your normal work day or you will have to ask for special approval, and then get paid extra (not necessarily a higher wage, but you DO get paid) for the time you put in beyond your normal work day.
You say that homework teaches strong work ethic? Maybe so, but I think most companies tear that to shreds with their policies once students hit the real world.
Actually, you have some files and directories that Google is still caching. While I'm sure you may not mind, it does show that the META tag method isn't infallible. News articles should be easy enough to tag for the engine that serves them up, but raw text files, which can still be copyrighted, aren't so easily dealt with.
Well, I suppose I should have used "free service" in my analogy in addition to "a professional-looking shop," since that's what most people get suckered into on the internet. It's not that people need to do background checks on the websites per se. They need to watch out for suspicious offers from people who don't have an established good reputation.
Free music? Free porn? Free versions of commercially-available games or even productivity software? That's like going to a shop offering "free brake job" out of the kindness of their hearts.
Yeah, the mechanic analogy wasn't complete. I'll admit that.
Your scenario is a little off, since your oven can't walk out of the house and burn someone else's house down. Let's try a more realistic scenario.
You buy a new drive-by-wire car. Then either of the following happens: You forego the option to park your car in a readily-available garage and a terrorist quietly breaks into it, or you simply take the car to a garage that you thought was reputable because of its professional-looking store front but was in fact a terrorist-run shop. Either way, they had their way with your car, installing hidden remote controls on the drive-by-wire system. Then they install a bomb using any available space, such as the empty body panels, inside the seats, etc. They can now damage or destroy any bridge they like, but you never knew what they did to your car, so you went on with life as usual. Then they did it to other owners' cars around town that were similarly vulnerable to compromise or social engineering.
Now for the best-case-scenario version of the outcome. We'll assume that the bridge is unoccupied, so there is no human life lost when they take your car and all the other zombie cars on their final joy ride, but the bridge is damaged and has to be closed while its structural integrity is assessed. Meanwhile, traffic has to be rerouted or stopped altogether. People can't get to work. Goods can't be delivered. The general population is afraid that there will be another attack, possibly trapping them in their neighborhood.
Now imagine that the cars were your computer and all the other zombie machines out there, the home garage was a simple NAT router or decent software firewall or the repair shop was a software package that contained malware, and the bridge was any major server or router that a decent-sized portion of the internet population relies on for day-to-day electronic transactions.
Do you really think it was the car manufacturer's fault that you left the car unprotected, or worse, you handed the keys to an untrustworthy mechanic because he had a professional-looking shop? While I don't think the car's owner should be held criminally responsible, I think they unknowingly forfeited the car when they ignored their responsibility to keep it reasonably secure. Don't be surprised if the government starts fragging driverless cars once they've identified them.
I'm not sure what went wrong with your tablet PC but the PowerShot SD450 (Ixus 55) only needs drivers for Windows 2000 or earlier versions, and only for direct capture, not for image transfer. It might have been because you were using Windows XP Tablet PC Edition--I don't know much about that version since the only piece of hardware I've ever used that runs on a Tablet PC version of Windows is an Acterna TestPad.
My PowerShot S400, an similar but older camera that uses CF cards instead of SD, has never, ever needed drivers for Windows XP. It doesn't even have problems with the infamous nothing-has-third-party-drivers-yet Windows Vista.
...damaging the freedoms that the internet was based on
Interesting. All this time I was under the impression that the internet was based upon the military's need for a robust network that could survive nuclear attack, and that said network was later expanded to include research, development, and education. Who'd have known it was actually based upon music and video file sharing!
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That function is already included in the "Restore iPod" feature in iTunes.
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I have to agree with you here. Vista had been in Beta since mid-2005. If iTunes and its related services still have problems like these, why haven't they already been addressed?
Are we going to blame Microsoft for Creative Labs' lack of decent drivers, too?
In marketing language, a gimmick is a unique or quirky special feature that makes something "stand out" from its contemporaries. However, the special feature is typically thought to be of little relevance or use. Thus, a gimmick is a special feature for the sake of having a special feature.
The paintbrush concept used in Okami was exactly what the definition above describes: a quirky special feature that makes Okami stand out from all the other 3D adventure games. Your response suggests that you have no clue what the word normally refers to.
Heh, they certainly don't want to admit that the new Mac is a PC now do they? Apple insists they're a hardware manufacturer and not a software vendor, when in fact, the only difference between the two, aside from proprietary hardware interface, is the OS.
When you call someone a liar you need to provide evidence to that effect.
OK, how about the ad that claims that the PC needs special drivers for the camera, but the Mac doesn't? Name a consumer-level camera that natively interfaces with a Mac that won't do so with a PC. They blatantly lie in this ad, claiming that the PC doesn't understand the new camera. If they wanted to take a shot at Windows' driver issues with cameras, they'd have to find an old non-standards-compliant camera, not the "new camera from Japan."
Okami is hardly original in that they added a paintbrush gimmick to a Zelda-style adventure game. Same thing goes for Viewtiful Joe with its side-scrolling brawler style, except that the Bullet Time gimmick had already been played-out with Max Payne.
Actually, he has a WRK-54G, which isn't the same thing as a WRT-54G despite having such a similar model number. The WRK-54G has a different chipset and there's no open source firmware out there for it.
I am SO sorry you got caught up with that POS. I have a WRK-54G also (got it bundled with a PCMCIA 54G NIC) only to run into the same problems as you. From what I've read, Linksys dumped it off their product list after only 3 months on the market.
But yes, you get what you pay for. What really hurts though is when you don't get what you pay for.
You mean WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) check, right, and not WMA (Windows Media Audio)?
There needs to be a legal way to bypass the WGA check because even though you're installing a browser, it may not necessarily be for use on an Internet-connected network. You might only be installing it for use as an interface. In this case, a WGA check with microsoft.com isn't possible. I don't recall if a custom build via IE Administration Kit allows for this, but I'm fairly certain that Microsoft has covered this angle.
The product is only as secure as its users. If the mainstream Windows userbase switched to Linux, they'd take their bad habits (neglecting security hole patches, installing supposedly-required software to view web pages, logging in as root by default, etc.) with them. Linux would be the new hot target for malware. The same goes for OSX or any other operating system. Sure, there would be fewer holes, assuming that people made sure to apply the appropriate security patches, but we're assuming again that they wouldn't take their bad habits with them again, aren't we?
These are the people who click OK just to get the box to go away. No operating system is going to save them from themselves without removing the luxury of convenience they insist on keeping.
If you stash one of these phones behind the dash with a constant 12V supply to the charger, you can track your unwitting spouse. Combine that with your internet connected smart phone and you've got a portable homing device system without having to bother Q.
All she has to do is drive the car to the store to get picked up for a rendezvous. Unlike kids, there's not much you can do about that. Double points if the pick-up opint is at the hardware store!
You could use one of these phones as a low-cost "Lo-jack" device if you liked though. If you were so inclined, you could probably rig it up to a car alarm system to have it call you in an emergency.
Kids are clever these days. They'll soon realize they can turn their phones off to go places parents shouldn't know about. Or let the battery drain, so they don't get blamed when they get home ("oops, I forgot to recharge it! sorry...").
Yep, and then you ground them for a week. Problem solved. Either they're grounded for turning their cell phone off, or they're grounded for letting the battery die. They can choose.
Put up internet sanctions. Isolate the countries that flout the laws of "civilized" nations (meaning those who don't allow scammers, spammers, crackers, etc. to run un-checked). When the money dries up, they'll come around. If they can't "play nice" in our sandbox, they can't come over to play. Will this cripple the internet? To some extent, yes. But it'll force other governments into action.
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Ahh, compact discs... They're like tractor-feed paper in a paperless world!
I only buy them if I can get a whole album cheaper that way than a whole album (or partial selection thereof) by electronic means.
Aww c'mon now, you know it's gonna be League of Rock N' Roll Racing. You'll have five character classes: Driver, pit crew, rocker (think Guitar Hero), announcer, and... Olaf!
Apple, when questioned about why they don't sell the PC-compatible version of their OS, has stated time and again that they are a hardware company, as opposed to a software company. This statement alone completely negates any position they may take for trying to take down Microsoft (a software company) as a competitor. It also flies in the face of their own marketing campaign.
If Apple ever wants to seriously compete in anything but the portable music player market, they need to stop being so wishy-washy. Are they selling a Mac bundled with a supported OS, or just the Mac OS bundled with supported hardware?
I personally haven't had any major issues that I'd attribute to Vista itself. Here is the short laundry list of problems I have run into:
--Driver unavailability from Creative Labs (audio) and HP (scanner). These have been resolved by the manufacturers. I don't hold any OS manufacturer responsible for writing a hardware manufacturer's code for them, especially when the hardware company is as big as Creative Labs or HP. MS is off the hook for that one.
--Slow startup. XP is a hard act to follow for cold-boot startup times, but I really expected more (less?) from Vista. Round-trip times for reboots were agonizingly slow, as shutdowns could take up to a full minute. MS takes the full blame for this one, as even a clean install is simply slow as hell during reboots. ReadyBoost didn't make a noticeable difference.
--Transcode360 doesn't work well with Vista. This is practically a showstopper for me, as it kept me from having to dedicate a system for HTPC usage. I could just use my Xbox 360 to stream any video regardless of codec. Again, I don't blame MS for this, especially since T360 is a closed-source beta.
--System instability after installing recent ATI Vista drivers. This was the final straw that sent me back to XP, simply because I don't think everyone else is ready for Vista yet, not the other way around.
--AVG antivirus became horribly broken after a system restore.
My system was rock-solid until that ATI driver install, which started an endless BSOD-on-startup cycle. After trying System Restore, AVG would neither run nor allow reinstall so I decided to nuke the site from orbit. It was the only way to be sure. I've gone back to XP MCE for now to let the Vista software world mature a little more. Still, I think Vista is a good OS, even if it's a bit slow, and doesn't deserve all this hate. The author's statement of "unfit for any user" is way off the mark. In my experience, it's perfect for most users, and only seems to run into problems when you start using untested software.
I just tested it on my PS3. Blu-ray output fell back to 480p when I disabled 1080i and 1080p on my TV, leaving only 480p and 720p. Apparently they haven't fixed it yet.
Don't you mean million and million? The population of New Mexico is only about 1.9 million. I'm not sure what percentage of that census count included (or excluded) people who are eligible to vote.
How about we just change the homework system to match the overtime systems found in the real world?
Homework in its current state teaches kids that your work outside of your normal schedule is encouraged and will be rewarded somehow. Overtime in its current state teaches adults that you'd better get everything done in your normal work day or you will have to ask for special approval, and then get paid extra (not necessarily a higher wage, but you DO get paid) for the time you put in beyond your normal work day.
You say that homework teaches strong work ethic? Maybe so, but I think most companies tear that to shreds with their policies once students hit the real world.
Actually, you have some files and directories that Google is still caching. While I'm sure you may not mind, it does show that the META tag method isn't infallible. News articles should be easy enough to tag for the engine that serves them up, but raw text files, which can still be copyrighted, aren't so easily dealt with.
Well, I suppose I should have used "free service" in my analogy in addition to "a professional-looking shop," since that's what most people get suckered into on the internet. It's not that people need to do background checks on the websites per se. They need to watch out for suspicious offers from people who don't have an established good reputation.
Free music? Free porn? Free versions of commercially-available games or even productivity software? That's like going to a shop offering "free brake job" out of the kindness of their hearts.
Yeah, the mechanic analogy wasn't complete. I'll admit that.
Your scenario is a little off, since your oven can't walk out of the house and burn someone else's house down. Let's try a more realistic scenario.
You buy a new drive-by-wire car. Then either of the following happens: You forego the option to park your car in a readily-available garage and a terrorist quietly breaks into it, or you simply take the car to a garage that you thought was reputable because of its professional-looking store front but was in fact a terrorist-run shop. Either way, they had their way with your car, installing hidden remote controls on the drive-by-wire system. Then they install a bomb using any available space, such as the empty body panels, inside the seats, etc. They can now damage or destroy any bridge they like, but you never knew what they did to your car, so you went on with life as usual. Then they did it to other owners' cars around town that were similarly vulnerable to compromise or social engineering.
Now for the best-case-scenario version of the outcome. We'll assume that the bridge is unoccupied, so there is no human life lost when they take your car and all the other zombie cars on their final joy ride, but the bridge is damaged and has to be closed while its structural integrity is assessed. Meanwhile, traffic has to be rerouted or stopped altogether. People can't get to work. Goods can't be delivered. The general population is afraid that there will be another attack, possibly trapping them in their neighborhood.
Now imagine that the cars were your computer and all the other zombie machines out there, the home garage was a simple NAT router or decent software firewall or the repair shop was a software package that contained malware, and the bridge was any major server or router that a decent-sized portion of the internet population relies on for day-to-day electronic transactions.
Do you really think it was the car manufacturer's fault that you left the car unprotected, or worse, you handed the keys to an untrustworthy mechanic because he had a professional-looking shop? While I don't think the car's owner should be held criminally responsible, I think they unknowingly forfeited the car when they ignored their responsibility to keep it reasonably secure. Don't be surprised if the government starts fragging driverless cars once they've identified them.
I'm not sure what went wrong with your tablet PC but the PowerShot SD450 (Ixus 55) only needs drivers for Windows 2000 or earlier versions, and only for direct capture, not for image transfer. It might have been because you were using Windows XP Tablet PC Edition--I don't know much about that version since the only piece of hardware I've ever used that runs on a Tablet PC version of Windows is an Acterna TestPad. My PowerShot S400, an similar but older camera that uses CF cards instead of SD, has never, ever needed drivers for Windows XP. It doesn't even have problems with the infamous nothing-has-third-party-drivers-yet Windows Vista.
Interesting. All this time I was under the impression that the internet was based upon the military's need for a robust network that could survive nuclear attack, and that said network was later expanded to include research, development, and education. Who'd have known it was actually based upon music and video file sharing!
That function is already included in the "Restore iPod" feature in iTunes.
I have to agree with you here. Vista had been in Beta since mid-2005. If iTunes and its related services still have problems like these, why haven't they already been addressed?
Are we going to blame Microsoft for Creative Labs' lack of decent drivers, too?
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The paintbrush concept used in Okami was exactly what the definition above describes: a quirky special feature that makes Okami stand out from all the other 3D adventure games. Your response suggests that you have no clue what the word normally refers to.
Heh, they certainly don't want to admit that the new Mac is a PC now do they? Apple insists they're a hardware manufacturer and not a software vendor, when in fact, the only difference between the two, aside from proprietary hardware interface, is the OS.
When you call someone a liar you need to provide evidence to that effect.
OK, how about the ad that claims that the PC needs special drivers for the camera, but the Mac doesn't? Name a consumer-level camera that natively interfaces with a Mac that won't do so with a PC. They blatantly lie in this ad, claiming that the PC doesn't understand the new camera. If they wanted to take a shot at Windows' driver issues with cameras, they'd have to find an old non-standards-compliant camera, not the "new camera from Japan."
Okami is hardly original in that they added a paintbrush gimmick to a Zelda-style adventure game. Same thing goes for Viewtiful Joe with its side-scrolling brawler style, except that the Bullet Time gimmick had already been played-out with Max Payne.
Actually, he has a WRK-54G, which isn't the same thing as a WRT-54G despite having such a similar model number. The WRK-54G has a different chipset and there's no open source firmware out there for it.
I am SO sorry you got caught up with that POS. I have a WRK-54G also (got it bundled with a PCMCIA 54G NIC) only to run into the same problems as you. From what I've read, Linksys dumped it off their product list after only 3 months on the market. But yes, you get what you pay for. What really hurts though is when you don't get what you pay for.
You mean WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) check, right, and not WMA (Windows Media Audio)?
There needs to be a legal way to bypass the WGA check because even though you're installing a browser, it may not necessarily be for use on an Internet-connected network. You might only be installing it for use as an interface. In this case, a WGA check with microsoft.com isn't possible. I don't recall if a custom build via IE Administration Kit allows for this, but I'm fairly certain that Microsoft has covered this angle.
The product is only as secure as its users. If the mainstream Windows userbase switched to Linux, they'd take their bad habits (neglecting security hole patches, installing supposedly-required software to view web pages, logging in as root by default, etc.) with them. Linux would be the new hot target for malware. The same goes for OSX or any other operating system. Sure, there would be fewer holes, assuming that people made sure to apply the appropriate security patches, but we're assuming again that they wouldn't take their bad habits with them again, aren't we?
These are the people who click OK just to get the box to go away. No operating system is going to save them from themselves without removing the luxury of convenience they insist on keeping.
All she has to do is drive the car to the store to get picked up for a rendezvous. Unlike kids, there's not much you can do about that. Double points if the pick-up opint is at the hardware store!
You could use one of these phones as a low-cost "Lo-jack" device if you liked though. If you were so inclined, you could probably rig it up to a car alarm system to have it call you in an emergency.
Yep, and then you ground them for a week. Problem solved. Either they're grounded for turning their cell phone off, or they're grounded for letting the battery die. They can choose.
Put up internet sanctions. Isolate the countries that flout the laws of "civilized" nations (meaning those who don't allow scammers, spammers, crackers, etc. to run un-checked). When the money dries up, they'll come around. If they can't "play nice" in our sandbox, they can't come over to play. Will this cripple the internet? To some extent, yes. But it'll force other governments into action.