according to the GGP that makes you a pirate. also, according to TFA doing that in the future might mean you wouldn't be able to access your save game.
I like the idea of my save game on a server somewhere and my being able to access it anywhere. Sony's update processes sucks though, I've never had a game or system update that took less than a half hour, god forbid it be an older game as it will take 2 to 3 times longer than that. More often then not I opt to just skip the update process because I don't feel like waiting. This is even more annoying when you consider that somehow my Xbox manages to perform similar system and game updates in about 10-20 seconds including restart time which makes it a minor annoyance at worst.
Unless sony improves their update speed I don't see myself using this feature as I wouldn't want to be locked out of my save game or forced to sit through a painfully lengthy update.
The problem with the schulze method is that it is too difficult for the average voter to wrap their head around. People have a difficult time understanding how votes are counted with the systems in place today. At least with approval voting the method of tabulation is still clear cut and easy to understand. Nevermind the the fact that the Schulze method has a lot room for human error when it comes time to actually apply it.
I agree that the schulze method is preferential to approval voting, however I prefer approval voting over our current process in any election.
Except if you understand how the cheat detection works you'd know that it's mostly automated... GameSaves can't be transferred between accounts, not unless you move them to your PC and modify them. There are a group of people know as "GameSavers" who will share saves that are near completion, then people download them on their PC and modify them to look like it was there own account that the save belongs to. then put the save on their console and then earn nearly all the achievements for only a few seconds of play.
MS can detect if these have been used by running a check sum on the save game to determine that it's been modified. Similarly people cheat by modifying their console to play pirated games, and the the game code itself can be modified to give people large amounts of health, extra powerful weapons or see/shoot through walls, etc. They can detect this in the same way they can detect gamesavers.
It's my understanding that they don't just going around checking everyone's file but rather check if the account has been reported by another user, or they usually check top players of new games (IE: people leading the Halo leaderboards a month after release)
I have no idea if there are additional manual checks in place but detecting this stuff is pretty cut and dry with very little room for false positives.
I think it's reached a point where if the MAFIAA actually got their way their own archaic business model would collapse in on itself. No one owns a radio anymore, MTV doesn't play music, and the RIAA doesn't want anyone else to play it publicly... I guess they assume people are just going to walk into Walmart unprovoked and buy music blind (deaf?) based on the cover art... or am I missing something here?
Not even politics but a holier than thou attitude... I own and operate collectorsedition.org it's basically a database of collector's edition video games. A vast majority of the games in the database I bought new, and have taken detailed photographs of the contents and details. then the relevant data is added to the database along with the photos and accompanying descriptions.
Looking though Wikipedia I'd notice some descriptions of the CEs for certain games would be wrong, and/or not sourced, I probably made a dozen small edits one day correcting minor errors and adding my database as a source. All of the edits were denied because my site was deemed an "unreliable source".
I don't know, when a description on Wikipedia is unsourced and says "included a soudtrack CD with 5 tracks" and I change it to read "12" tracks and site a source that has a detailed description as well as a photograph of the liner notes showing 12 tracks... I'm not quite sure how much more reliable they're looking to get.
Another instance is they had some incorrect technical specs listed for the Nissan 240sx, I own two of these cars and know quite a bit about them. I changed the uncited text and and cited a digital copy of the original Nissan Sales brochure that Nissan themselves were hosting online... again my edits were denied with no reason given.
I'd happy contribute time, knowledge, and money on a regular basis, but they've made it pretty clear that they don't want my help, and based on what I've seen on the topics I am already knowledgeable about, I've since stopped using them as a source of information altogether.
I started using a "weak" password but prefixed with a string of 4 characters based on the URL of the site it's for... that way I only have to remember 1 password but it's still unique on every site I visit.
The prefix is something I can figure out in 2 or 3 seconds but would not be apparent looking at the password... you would probably need passwords from 3 or more sites to reverse engineer the pattern.
My primary email, bank account, other important logins all get unique passwords though.
I don't wield any kind of budget at all, but my company has a few dozen divisions internationally and uses Lenovo exclusively for the few hundred notebook users we have... as an end user I'm pretty damn happy with my W500. I've had a ThinkPad series device for the last 11 years and have come to like them enough that I bought one for my personal machine at home.
It's only a DE FACTO 2-party system... I still don't understand how any person can be a cheerleader for either major party with the BS that has gone down over the last CENTURY.
I vote straight ticket 3rd party every election just out of the hope that a 3rd party candidate gets enough votes that the next time around they might get equal footing in a debate, or news coverage and maybe some other people might wake up and realize that there are more than 2 choices.
I think you're understanding the word "forum" too net-speak literal... replace the word "forum" with "platform" or "website" and that seems to be more the intent of what the ACLU is promoting.
The point isn't that Slashot is a freespeach forum for users, it's that the net is a freespeach forum for sites like Slashdot.
"How dare Google compare our products based on factors that make theirs look superior! We think that they should compare our products only on factors that we think make ours look superior!"
I tend to believe him. Most good "money making" ideas didn't start out as such, Typically anything built with nothing but monetary aspirations tend to be incredibly generic and uninspired. That's not to say you can't capitalize on something you love doing but the real big hit ideas have a lot of love for the process and the results beyond just money.
Whether he did it just because he wanted to build something, or he was looking for social notoriety (or both) I can't say but I don't really see his initial intentions being based on money. It seems to me that it wasn't until the thing blew up that he decided to capitalize on it.
check out Borderlands... seriously one of the more interesting games I've played in a long time... Imagine Fallout 3 but with a jump-in/jump-out co-op system and characters/storyline with the kind of humor you'd expect from Portal or Team Fortress. Gearbox just released a "Game of the Year" edition that includes all 4 expansion packs... and it also includes the Duke Nukem Forever demo from PAX.
"group-think" aside, I remember signing up here because it seemed to me that slashdot would get the tech news before it really showed up anywhere else, and would cover a lot of the smaller stories that other outlets would let fall through.
These days I'll hear about tech news through co-workers, radio news, and gawker blogs not just earlier but usually by days or even a week or two. 9 times out of 10 when I see new stories pop up on the Slashdot RSS my reaction is "oh, they're just NOW reporting that?".
The coverage has dropped down dramatically too, news used to pop up on Slashdot so frequently that I wouldn't have time to read it all and I could pick and choose the articles that interest me the most. The articles on the first page of a given section would only contain news from the last few hours, now those same sections you can see a weeks worth of news on the first page. No longer do I find any hidden gems in terms of news, but instead I only get the stories that have been beaten to death by all the other major outlets. This is the kind of stuff I'd expect to see by a no-name blog with a couple editors working on the break time of their day job... not the supposed king of "news for nerds".
I don't think the problem is submissions either, but the review and approval process. since the more open firehose/peer voted system it seems the only stories that get through are those that have already become popular elsewhere. it's good in theory but it's clear that in-practice, the system is broken. I'll weed through the poor editing and group-think comments, but goddamn, at least give me some fresh news, as opposed to CNN's sloppy seconds.
good luck collecting those fines... people who have survived a home fire always have tons of money right? especially those who are so cheap/poor they burn their trash to avoid dump fees and refuse to pay dirt cheap fees for fire protective services.
If the fire department was guaranteed that money it would work, sadly they'd probably end up spending twice the fine fighting to collect, then the home owner would just file for bankruptcy and go kick dirt for a few years while the fire-department gets more broke.
I also used this, 2 home computers and 2 work computers all will synced bookmarks worked great... I could bookmark a site at home that might be useful for work and have it waiting for me when I fired up that machine...
Why doesn't he just sue the new "owner" as a John Doe just like the RIAA does... the Chip company knows who they are (just like the ISP knows the name and location of alleged illegal down-loaders), and it would leave it up to the courts to determine if the information needs to be released or if the dog can be returned to it's owner.
I'd be willing to bet if the new owner gets served, they'd just hand the dog over willingly to avoid having to go to court.
This is why if I were to ever come into a windfall of money I wouldn't tell anyone, not even family or close friends. Just pay off my debts, fix up the house, and then invest a chunk in starting my own business... something that I enjoy and something that will keep me occupied.
Have you ever been to DC? It's pretty much impossible to miss... you get off the Metro (the same stop for all of the famous memorials) walk toward the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial is staring you in the face from the other side of the reflecting pool.
There are maps showing the location of all the memorials and monuments on just about every street corner. Not to mention there's hardly any parking so you'll probably be arriving by Metro, bus, or taxi, all of which will take you do the right place if you ask them properly.
I think I enjoy programming in assembly on embedded controllers more-so than your typical PC app... when programming at the lowest level there is a clear and distinct correlation to the methods you use to accomplish a task and the speed of the output. programming at the higher level just feels so disconnected by comparison. When I program in C or Java I feel like I'm just drawing up plans to a house and letting someone else build it, when I program in assembly I feel like I'm pounding the nails myself... and it's much more rewarding.
Funspot has become progressively worse over the years, they dump money into expanding their bowling, virtual golf, and bingo halls while the classic arcade area gets smaller year after year.
the halfmoon/penny arcades on the Weirs Beach boardwalk just a few miles away isn't nearly as big but they do still have a lot of classic gems, as well as a lot of good pinball machines. I'm bias though because I used to work there repairing them.
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according to the GGP that makes you a pirate. also, according to TFA doing that in the future might mean you wouldn't be able to access your save game.
I like the idea of my save game on a server somewhere and my being able to access it anywhere. Sony's update processes sucks though, I've never had a game or system update that took less than a half hour, god forbid it be an older game as it will take 2 to 3 times longer than that. More often then not I opt to just skip the update process because I don't feel like waiting. This is even more annoying when you consider that somehow my Xbox manages to perform similar system and game updates in about 10-20 seconds including restart time which makes it a minor annoyance at worst.
Unless sony improves their update speed I don't see myself using this feature as I wouldn't want to be locked out of my save game or forced to sit through a painfully lengthy update.
The problem with the schulze method is that it is too difficult for the average voter to wrap their head around. People have a difficult time understanding how votes are counted with the systems in place today. At least with approval voting the method of tabulation is still clear cut and easy to understand. Nevermind the the fact that the Schulze method has a lot room for human error when it comes time to actually apply it.
I agree that the schulze method is preferential to approval voting, however I prefer approval voting over our current process in any election.
Except if you understand how the cheat detection works you'd know that it's mostly automated... GameSaves can't be transferred between accounts, not unless you move them to your PC and modify them. There are a group of people know as "GameSavers" who will share saves that are near completion, then people download them on their PC and modify them to look like it was there own account that the save belongs to. then put the save on their console and then earn nearly all the achievements for only a few seconds of play.
MS can detect if these have been used by running a check sum on the save game to determine that it's been modified. Similarly people cheat by modifying their console to play pirated games, and the the game code itself can be modified to give people large amounts of health, extra powerful weapons or see/shoot through walls, etc. They can detect this in the same way they can detect gamesavers.
It's my understanding that they don't just going around checking everyone's file but rather check if the account has been reported by another user, or they usually check top players of new games (IE: people leading the Halo leaderboards a month after release)
I have no idea if there are additional manual checks in place but detecting this stuff is pretty cut and dry with very little room for false positives.
I think it's reached a point where if the MAFIAA actually got their way their own archaic business model would collapse in on itself. No one owns a radio anymore, MTV doesn't play music, and the RIAA doesn't want anyone else to play it publicly... I guess they assume people are just going to walk into Walmart unprovoked and buy music blind (deaf?) based on the cover art... or am I missing something here?
Not even politics but a holier than thou attitude... I own and operate collectorsedition.org it's basically a database of collector's edition video games. A vast majority of the games in the database I bought new, and have taken detailed photographs of the contents and details. then the relevant data is added to the database along with the photos and accompanying descriptions.
Looking though Wikipedia I'd notice some descriptions of the CEs for certain games would be wrong, and/or not sourced, I probably made a dozen small edits one day correcting minor errors and adding my database as a source. All of the edits were denied because my site was deemed an "unreliable source".
I don't know, when a description on Wikipedia is unsourced and says "included a soudtrack CD with 5 tracks" and I change it to read "12" tracks and site a source that has a detailed description as well as a photograph of the liner notes showing 12 tracks... I'm not quite sure how much more reliable they're looking to get.
Another instance is they had some incorrect technical specs listed for the Nissan 240sx, I own two of these cars and know quite a bit about them. I changed the uncited text and and cited a digital copy of the original Nissan Sales brochure that Nissan themselves were hosting online... again my edits were denied with no reason given.
I'd happy contribute time, knowledge, and money on a regular basis, but they've made it pretty clear that they don't want my help, and based on what I've seen on the topics I am already knowledgeable about, I've since stopped using them as a source of information altogether.
I started using a "weak" password but prefixed with a string of 4 characters based on the URL of the site it's for... that way I only have to remember 1 password but it's still unique on every site I visit.
The prefix is something I can figure out in 2 or 3 seconds but would not be apparent looking at the password... you would probably need passwords from 3 or more sites to reverse engineer the pattern.
My primary email, bank account, other important logins all get unique passwords though.
The Xbox 360 has had iPod support available since nearly the beginning, released just days after the console's launch: http://games.gearlive.com/playfeed/article/xbox-360-ipod-connectivity-11280321/
It's not installed nativity, but it's a free download provided by Microsoft themselves.
I don't wield any kind of budget at all, but my company has a few dozen divisions internationally and uses Lenovo exclusively for the few hundred notebook users we have... as an end user I'm pretty damn happy with my W500. I've had a ThinkPad series device for the last 11 years and have come to like them enough that I bought one for my personal machine at home.
It's only a DE FACTO 2-party system... I still don't understand how any person can be a cheerleader for either major party with the BS that has gone down over the last CENTURY.
I vote straight ticket 3rd party every election just out of the hope that a 3rd party candidate gets enough votes that the next time around they might get equal footing in a debate, or news coverage and maybe some other people might wake up and realize that there are more than 2 choices.
obligatory: http://xkcd.com/779/
I think you're understanding the word "forum" too net-speak literal... replace the word "forum" with "platform" or "website" and that seems to be more the intent of what the ACLU is promoting.
The point isn't that Slashot is a freespeach forum for users, it's that the net is a freespeach forum for sites like Slashdot.
"How dare Google compare our products based on factors that make theirs look superior! We think that they should compare our products only on factors that we think make ours look superior!"
I tend to believe him. Most good "money making" ideas didn't start out as such, Typically anything built with nothing but monetary aspirations tend to be incredibly generic and uninspired. That's not to say you can't capitalize on something you love doing but the real big hit ideas have a lot of love for the process and the results beyond just money.
Whether he did it just because he wanted to build something, or he was looking for social notoriety (or both) I can't say but I don't really see his initial intentions being based on money. It seems to me that it wasn't until the thing blew up that he decided to capitalize on it.
check out Borderlands... seriously one of the more interesting games I've played in a long time... Imagine Fallout 3 but with a jump-in/jump-out co-op system and characters/storyline with the kind of humor you'd expect from Portal or Team Fortress. Gearbox just released a "Game of the Year" edition that includes all 4 expansion packs... and it also includes the Duke Nukem Forever demo from PAX.
"group-think" aside, I remember signing up here because it seemed to me that slashdot would get the tech news before it really showed up anywhere else, and would cover a lot of the smaller stories that other outlets would let fall through.
These days I'll hear about tech news through co-workers, radio news, and gawker blogs not just earlier but usually by days or even a week or two. 9 times out of 10 when I see new stories pop up on the Slashdot RSS my reaction is "oh, they're just NOW reporting that?".
The coverage has dropped down dramatically too, news used to pop up on Slashdot so frequently that I wouldn't have time to read it all and I could pick and choose the articles that interest me the most. The articles on the first page of a given section would only contain news from the last few hours, now those same sections you can see a weeks worth of news on the first page. No longer do I find any hidden gems in terms of news, but instead I only get the stories that have been beaten to death by all the other major outlets. This is the kind of stuff I'd expect to see by a no-name blog with a couple editors working on the break time of their day job... not the supposed king of "news for nerds".
I don't think the problem is submissions either, but the review and approval process. since the more open firehose/peer voted system it seems the only stories that get through are those that have already become popular elsewhere. it's good in theory but it's clear that in-practice, the system is broken. I'll weed through the poor editing and group-think comments, but goddamn, at least give me some fresh news, as opposed to CNN's sloppy seconds.
If I could see through things I'd probably just go to Vegas ...
good luck collecting those fines... people who have survived a home fire always have tons of money right? especially those who are so cheap/poor they burn their trash to avoid dump fees and refuse to pay dirt cheap fees for fire protective services.
If the fire department was guaranteed that money it would work, sadly they'd probably end up spending twice the fine fighting to collect, then the home owner would just file for bankruptcy and go kick dirt for a few years while the fire-department gets more broke.
I also used this, 2 home computers and 2 work computers all will synced bookmarks worked great... I could bookmark a site at home that might be useful for work and have it waiting for me when I fired up that machine...
really sad to see this go...
Why doesn't he just sue the new "owner" as a John Doe just like the RIAA does... the Chip company knows who they are (just like the ISP knows the name and location of alleged illegal down-loaders), and it would leave it up to the courts to determine if the information needs to be released or if the dog can be returned to it's owner.
I'd be willing to bet if the new owner gets served, they'd just hand the dog over willingly to avoid having to go to court.
This is why if I were to ever come into a windfall of money I wouldn't tell anyone, not even family or close friends. Just pay off my debts, fix up the house, and then invest a chunk in starting my own business... something that I enjoy and something that will keep me occupied.
"... at least that's what my wife told me to say"
These guys are environmentalists... they're trying to counteract global warming by making hell freeze over.
Have you ever been to DC? It's pretty much impossible to miss... you get off the Metro (the same stop for all of the famous memorials) walk toward the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial is staring you in the face from the other side of the reflecting pool.
There are maps showing the location of all the memorials and monuments on just about every street corner. Not to mention there's hardly any parking so you'll probably be arriving by Metro, bus, or taxi, all of which will take you do the right place if you ask them properly.
I think I enjoy programming in assembly on embedded controllers more-so than your typical PC app... when programming at the lowest level there is a clear and distinct correlation to the methods you use to accomplish a task and the speed of the output. programming at the higher level just feels so disconnected by comparison. When I program in C or Java I feel like I'm just drawing up plans to a house and letting someone else build it, when I program in assembly I feel like I'm pounding the nails myself... and it's much more rewarding.
Funspot has become progressively worse over the years, they dump money into expanding their bowling, virtual golf, and bingo halls while the classic arcade area gets smaller year after year.
the halfmoon/penny arcades on the Weirs Beach boardwalk just a few miles away isn't nearly as big but they do still have a lot of classic gems, as well as a lot of good pinball machines. I'm bias though because I used to work there repairing them.