Power companies are reporting that PS3 usage accounts for only 0.1% of total power consumed, while usage of Wii's and XBox360's account for 5% of power consumed.
I am a civilian contractor for the US government, and I can guarantee that we are hit all the time with attempts to get into our networks on the secret and SCI sides.
However, I would like to know who these "onlookers" are... The defense measures (can't say specifically of course) that we take are plenty effective against all types of attacks we get. One of our top priorities is writing code that is solid and secure. We run scans (again, specifics are classified) nightly to test the security of our infrastructure and applications.
Whoever these "onlookers" are, I would love to hear about how THEY successfully hacked into our network instead of just criticizing with no actual knowledge.
I don't know about you guys, but I wouldn't want to play a lightsaber game on the Wii. The fact that there is no resistance would drive me nuts... You couldn't really have a great lightsaber battle because you'd swing right through your enemy parrying your attacks, even though your character's lightsaber on screen was blocked.
Corporate Linux Fanboy: "As you can see here Gentlemen, the Linux web server has far less tubes going everywhere, which means the information travels a shorter distance through these tubes." Board: "Oooohhh. Ahhhhh. Tubes..." *nod nod* Corporate Linux Fanboy: "Now as we look at the Microsoft version of the same exact thing, you can see that the tubes snake every which way with no sense of order. Chaos ensues, and the tubes are tangled every which way. Obviously, less tubes means better." Corporate Microsoft Fanboy: "Your Mom has more tubes!"
We're getting really close to finding those planets that the scientists are almost done theorizing about. In fact, the theories have resulted in hypothetical tests being done to possibly link the unproven cause of AIDS to the disassociated evolutionism ideas.
Imagine there is an auction that no one is interested in except for you, and you really really want this item. Say you're willing to pay $100 for the item. The opening bid of the item is at $50, so you bid $50 and are happy that you might have a chance at getting your item at half the price you anticipated paying. Now, the seller goes and uses a different account to shill bid his own auction up to $75. You're technically not competing with anyone for the item, and yet you have to pay $25 than you should. Even though you're still willing to pay the price for the item, the point is that you should not have to pay the higher price. In other words, if the seller wasn't a greedy bastard, you could get the item at a considerable bargain price, and there is no logical reason why you should have to pay more if no real buy is interested other than you.
Disclaimer: The above is a completely idealized version of a buyer being victimized by shill bids, and in reality is unlikely to happen.
From the summary:
"A lot of games recently it's cell phone, PC, DS, PSP, if you look at EA they blanket it -- it's everywhere. Did I miss something here? O.o
The whole suit -- which draws design inspiration from Star Wars, RoboCop, Batman and video games -- The only thing that comes to mind is Triumph the Insult Comic Dog:
I recently purchased an Xbox 360. Why? Well... the only *real* reason I bought it was to play Gears of War. And let me tell you, holy crap!
I have a high-defition projector with a 106" screen, and playing Gears of War when the lights are all off and the game is giving you every ambient noise from a 7.1 surround sound system... The first time I encountered wretches, I about wet my pants. I saw them coming at me on the ceiling, and then all of a sudden I heard the screeching noise they make, but it was from behind me. REALLY behind me- behind my couch from the back wall to be precise. *shudder*
Anyway, basically, that type of immersion would have never been possible (for me at least) on a system that didn't look or sound as absolutely stunning as Gears of War. I think that "next gen" can't really be defined without there being some form of 3D in the game. After all, after playing a game like Gears of War, plugging in an NES and playing Mario at 480i on the same projector would just look like ass.
I can tell you hundreds of incidents where I have been driving along a road at 2 AM where cars/trucks/SUV's come up RIGHT behind me and camp there. I am not in the left lane, there are two lanes available, and I am usually going ~7 MPH faster than the speed limit. What would cause those people to follow RIGHT behind me?
I'm sorry, but I am not a pious, self-righteous asshole who refuses to get out of the way.
Well that is very true, but I think you're overlooking the main intent here.
Say someone is monitoring who is using the license to your car. There may be different drivers in the car (users on the PC), or there may be different components added to the car (upgrading per se) but there can only be ONE person driving the car at any given time. In a computer, if the components of the car change between two installations, then either someone upgraded their PC, or that license is being pirated to multiple PCs. No matter how hard you try, no one could drive your car at the same time as you (ie- having 2 copies of vista installed on multiple PCs), so the components of a car don't matter; however, in a PC, components do matter (to some extent- barring legitimacy) in determining piracy.
I purchased one copy of Windows XP Professional a long time ago, and since then I have installed it on at least 5 machines of mine or family.
I did upgrade my computer at one point, and the activation failed, so I called Windows support. I was quickly connected to some outsourced support technician who asked me the CD key of my XP CD, as well as the serial number and release (I think?) number. After giving him this info, he gave me a new CD key, which I assumed to be one shot only, like the previous one I had.
I have since learned that this is apparently a get-out-of-jail-free CD key, because I am able to install the same CD onto any machine with any hardware configuration and always pass Windows activation. And if Vista will be more lenient than XP was, then heck, I'm more than happy!
There were no boobies until you applied a modification to the game downloaded off the internet.
If a tree falls in the woods when no one is around, does it make a sound?
If that parent or their child then goes and modifies the game such that it shows boobs, that is their fault, not Rockstar's or the ESRB.
So you're telling me that if your Sister is in a locked room that you can't get to, but she's having sex with your Father, if you break into the room, it's YOUR FAULT for seeing it?
You can't really call the hot coffee content a MOD per se. Users did not add the boobies, all the user added was the ability to access the boobies. In court, no one cares that you couldn't access that content on a vanilla version, but what the court will care about is the fact that Rockstar was the creator of the hot coffee content. Period.
I think the main problem is that people like Jack Thompson can manipulate this any way they see fit. I was originally posting under an idea that I was the prosecution. It is much easier for the prosecutor to weave any web he wants with the story, because technically, the content was available on the disc. Regardless that it was attainable by illegal and/or inordinately unusual means, the content was still accessible which is the whole problem.
Now, I honestly think that "families against bad videogames" type groups are just using this to aid their own ends and don't really care too much about this particular incident. Also, you can't really compare unused code/content to this code/content. This is by far not unfinished code; from what I understand, it's a fully functional minigame that quite possible could have made it into the final game, but was probably unlinked at a date close enough to release to make it a pain (read: it had been printed already).
The problem is NOT that Rockstar included sexually explicit content in their game. The problem is that they released it under a rating that did not include knowledge of the sexually explicit material. Saying something like: "if children seeing polyboobies is a problem then blah blah blah" is a completely misleading statement.
This has absolutely NOTHING to do with children seeing boobies. It's the fact that Rockstar didn't DECLARE there were boobies to the ESRB. If a parent doesn't care about their child seeing digital boobs, then let the parent make an informed decision about the product up front. But stop saying that there's a problem with society because children seeing digital boobs is causing such a commotion. It's not.
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Power companies are reporting that PS3 usage accounts for only 0.1% of total power consumed, while usage of Wii's and XBox360's account for 5% of power consumed.
Disclaimer: Figures are total baloney.
Hmm...
Oops.
I am a civilian contractor for the US government, and I can guarantee that we are hit all the time with attempts to get into our networks on the secret and SCI sides.
However, I would like to know who these "onlookers" are... The defense measures (can't say specifically of course) that we take are plenty effective against all types of attacks we get. One of our top priorities is writing code that is solid and secure. We run scans (again, specifics are classified) nightly to test the security of our infrastructure and applications.
Whoever these "onlookers" are, I would love to hear about how THEY successfully hacked into our network instead of just criticizing with no actual knowledge.
I don't know about you guys, but I wouldn't want to play a lightsaber game on the Wii. The fact that there is no resistance would drive me nuts... You couldn't really have a great lightsaber battle because you'd swing right through your enemy parrying your attacks, even though your character's lightsaber on screen was blocked.
Corporate Linux Fanboy: "As you can see here Gentlemen, the Linux web server has far less tubes going everywhere, which means the information travels a shorter distance through these tubes."
Board: "Oooohhh. Ahhhhh. Tubes..." *nod nod*
Corporate Linux Fanboy: "Now as we look at the Microsoft version of the same exact thing, you can see that the tubes snake every which way with no sense of order. Chaos ensues, and the tubes are tangled every which way. Obviously, less tubes means better."
Corporate Microsoft Fanboy: "Your Mom has more tubes!"
The previous post is not a troll... It's definitely Blatant mod abuse.
We're getting really close to finding those planets that the scientists are almost done theorizing about. In fact, the theories have resulted in hypothetical tests being done to possibly link the unproven cause of AIDS to the disassociated evolutionism ideas.
And the big bang...
And... and... Aliens exist!
Um... Kate Beckinsale did rip her clothes off on camera... didn't you see it?
Oh well, you missed out.
...to fund the development of the Playstation 4 and prepare for their next bout of battery explosions.
It's not about people being whiny children...
The main point here is this:
Imagine there is an auction that no one is interested in except for you, and you really really want this item. Say you're willing to pay $100 for the item. The opening bid of the item is at $50, so you bid $50 and are happy that you might have a chance at getting your item at half the price you anticipated paying. Now, the seller goes and uses a different account to shill bid his own auction up to $75. You're technically not competing with anyone for the item, and yet you have to pay $25 than you should. Even though you're still willing to pay the price for the item, the point is that you should not have to pay the higher price. In other words, if the seller wasn't a greedy bastard, you could get the item at a considerable bargain price, and there is no logical reason why you should have to pay more if no real buy is interested other than you.
Disclaimer: The above is a completely idealized version of a buyer being victimized by shill bids, and in reality is unlikely to happen.
I'm holding out for Starcraft 2.
Or World of Starcraft...
Or... Star...craffttt.....
Did I miss something here? O.o
The only thing that comes to mind is Triumph the Insult Comic Dog:
"You are a huge nerd!"
I recently purchased an Xbox 360. Why? Well... the only *real* reason I bought it was to play Gears of War. And let me tell you, holy crap!
I have a high-defition projector with a 106" screen, and playing Gears of War when the lights are all off and the game is giving you every ambient noise from a 7.1 surround sound system... The first time I encountered wretches, I about wet my pants. I saw them coming at me on the ceiling, and then all of a sudden I heard the screeching noise they make, but it was from behind me. REALLY behind me- behind my couch from the back wall to be precise. *shudder*
Anyway, basically, that type of immersion would have never been possible (for me at least) on a system that didn't look or sound as absolutely stunning as Gears of War. I think that "next gen" can't really be defined without there being some form of 3D in the game. After all, after playing a game like Gears of War, plugging in an NES and playing Mario at 480i on the same projector would just look like ass.
I can tell you hundreds of incidents where I have been driving along a road at 2 AM where cars/trucks/SUV's come up RIGHT behind me and camp there. I am not in the left lane, there are two lanes available, and I am usually going ~7 MPH faster than the speed limit. What would cause those people to follow RIGHT behind me?
I'm sorry, but I am not a pious, self-righteous asshole who refuses to get out of the way.
There IS SUCH A THING as a tailgater.
Not to be confused with Web 2.0.
Well that is very true, but I think you're overlooking the main intent here.
Say someone is monitoring who is using the license to your car. There may be different drivers in the car (users on the PC), or there may be different components added to the car (upgrading per se) but there can only be ONE person driving the car at any given time. In a computer, if the components of the car change between two installations, then either someone upgraded their PC, or that license is being pirated to multiple PCs. No matter how hard you try, no one could drive your car at the same time as you (ie- having 2 copies of vista installed on multiple PCs), so the components of a car don't matter; however, in a PC, components do matter (to some extent- barring legitimacy) in determining piracy.
Make sense?
Yeah go ahead and let your wife drive your car. Then at the same time, try to get in and take your car to work.
Let me know how that goes for you.
I purchased one copy of Windows XP Professional a long time ago, and since then I have installed it on at least 5 machines of mine or family.
I did upgrade my computer at one point, and the activation failed, so I called Windows support. I was quickly connected to some outsourced support technician who asked me the CD key of my XP CD, as well as the serial number and release (I think?) number. After giving him this info, he gave me a new CD key, which I assumed to be one shot only, like the previous one I had.
I have since learned that this is apparently a get-out-of-jail-free CD key, because I am able to install the same CD onto any machine with any hardware configuration and always pass Windows activation. And if Vista will be more lenient than XP was, then heck, I'm more than happy!
He told her he was on the male pill. She slapped him... That was the end of that.
If a tree falls in the woods when no one is around, does it make a sound?
So you're telling me that if your Sister is in a locked room that you can't get to, but she's having sex with your Father, if you break into the room, it's YOUR FAULT for seeing it?
You can't really call the hot coffee content a MOD per se. Users did not add the boobies, all the user added was the ability to access the boobies. In court, no one cares that you couldn't access that content on a vanilla version, but what the court will care about is the fact that Rockstar was the creator of the hot coffee content. Period.
I think the main problem is that people like Jack Thompson can manipulate this any way they see fit. I was originally posting under an idea that I was the prosecution. It is much easier for the prosecutor to weave any web he wants with the story, because technically, the content was available on the disc. Regardless that it was attainable by illegal and/or inordinately unusual means, the content was still accessible which is the whole problem.
Now, I honestly think that "families against bad videogames" type groups are just using this to aid their own ends and don't really care too much about this particular incident. Also, you can't really compare unused code/content to this code/content. This is by far not unfinished code; from what I understand, it's a fully functional minigame that quite possible could have made it into the final game, but was probably unlinked at a date close enough to release to make it a pain (read: it had been printed already).
Stop confusing the issue!!
The problem is NOT that Rockstar included sexually explicit content in their game. The problem is that they released it under a rating that did not include knowledge of the sexually explicit material. Saying something like: "if children seeing polyboobies is a problem then blah blah blah" is a completely misleading statement.
This has absolutely NOTHING to do with children seeing boobies. It's the fact that Rockstar didn't DECLARE there were boobies to the ESRB. If a parent doesn't care about their child seeing digital boobs, then let the parent make an informed decision about the product up front. But stop saying that there's a problem with society because children seeing digital boobs is causing such a commotion. It's not.