Yet another kid who read a list of fallacies on Wikipedia and thinks he's mister Spock. Maybe you should read a little more, you might learn something. Like the fact that it would only apply to the argument if it were Dell making the accusations. Another harder subject to master is rhetoric, in which you learn that logical invalidity doesn't negate every argument.
Hey, at least it's not ad hominem. Well, actually it is, but at least it's a new term.
A 550 watt PSU won't even adequately power a SLI/Crossfire setup. They're selling kilowatt PSU's these days. Hell, I see one outfit selling a 1.6KW PSU. Now that might be overkill.
You're probably right. I still maintain that a stick beats WASD, and there are some kids freakishly good with the sticks, but the majority of people are better with the mouse. But really, if it's fun, it's fun, and the incoherent screaming of hypercompetitive Greater Internet Fuckwads (not accusing you, you're actually quite civil about it) about their control scheme serves only to amuse in a Jerry Springer kind of way.
Still, while I do find both console and PC shooters to be fun on their own merits, I am finding myself getting tired of the whole genre of "drive your character like a car through almost entirely flat terrain, with your gun as your interface to the world, pointing and clicking a path of destruction". I'd like to see more games where you can focus on tactics, and less on clicking the same things with a more detailed texture year after year. Sort of like the old Rainbow Six games, before they turned those into FPS's.
hopefully it will make hardware and software vendors question their strategy of only supporting Windows. If the future dominance of Windows is called into question, the developers may look to support other platforms instead.
I think you meant a different punctuation. Something more like:
"it will make hardware and software vendors question their strategy of only supporting Windows if the future dominance of Windows is called into question."
Microsoft is not NEARLY at that point yet, and there are few indicators that they will be. Hardware manufacturers are certainly not giving up driver development for XP, but that doesn't translate into them launching new development for OSX or Linux, because they still don't necessarily see a return on investment. The typical alternative for the vast majority of disillusioned Vista users is XP.
I think you'll be surprised. There's a generation of kids out there who pull off headshots every time using just the analog stick on high sensitivity. And analog sticks beat WASD for movement every time. Obviously some kind of hybrid controller is the answer (and there is one for the PS3, though the name escapes me)
Granted, it's hard to get multiple sourcing on this, but Bruce Blair and the CDI are hardly a bunch of sensationalist muck-rackers. I suspect the audits to which you refer were partly a response to SAC's little maneuver.
> He is currently the ranking chair of the house finance committee
I'd be very surprised to see a Republican chairing any committee in the current congress. And a quick look shows that the current chair is Rep. Barney Frank, (D) MA.
It won't feel like you're shoving policy down their throats if you don't have a default password at all, but make it so that it won't function until you complete the setup, which involves setting a password.
Considering that you get folks like SAC who set the PAL codes for all their nukes to 00000, yeah there will always be people that bypass it. But at least won't be because nobody touched it at all -- someone had to run the setup. And when users get cranky and bypass it, then it's now 100% their problem. Especially when the SOX auditors come knocking.
Didn't watch much TV after the VA Tech shootings, did you? He was all over the airwaves. FNC already has sputtering reactionary jowl-waggers on staff, and doesn't need Thompson as much I guess.
> Nobody has to participate in the tech market or any market for that matter.
Short of being Amish, we all buy things from the outside. Heck, even they do. Some of us simply wish to strongly state a preference for the state of markets we choose to participate in. And given the vocal expression of SOME people in the market, not naming any names here, with respect to their product preferences, I think it's perfectly fair for them to get a little of it back.
I don't have an iPhone, don't want one, and don't want my carrier getting any ideas from Apple.
It's a novel legal theory, but the value is mostly in the comedy of its assumption that your HTTP headers are a creative work. Are you preparing to sue Cisco because their routers modify the IP packets that you originate?
CSS is a blunt hack that can only reformat the existing data, largely by hiding it. It cannot break it up into smaller pages, select different scripts to run, or negotiate different content altogether unless you have them download all the content for all media types then display only the types you want.
Plus, it's usually handhelds that have the poorest CSS support around.
Anyway, why would developers be annoyed? If a browser breaks your site, and you're following standards, the blame is on the browser, not on the developer.
Because Vodaphone customers may not know that Vodaphone is screwing up their browser, they just know that your site doesn't work with their phone. Then they go elsewhere, like a competitor that happens to be on Vodaphone's "white list". The whitelist is a good part of what they're "hopping mad" about.
> Well, if you don't have one and don't plan on ever getting one, why do you care?
Because he has to participate in the same market driven by people who reward the abusive behaviors of suppliers, thus creating an incentive for other suppliers to behave the same way, and lowering the supply for his demand. Simple economics.
> You seriously consider unlocking/hacking an iPhone, which you legally bought and own,
You seriously think you actually own anything anymore, in this society, in this century? Perhaps you own the lump of plastic and silicon. Certainly not its actual ability to function though. Welcome to the modern world.
Why is it that when a company like Microsoft or Oracle does some sort of lock-in or stunt like this, they're "so evil" and it's just such a demonstration of how evil they are, but when Apple does it they're just "doing what a business has to do"?
It's called "special pleading", and it's been the standard defense of Apple from day 1. Apple is the company that invented the Look and Feel lawsuit. This is the company that sued Microsoft over MS Media player changing file associations... back to what they were before QuickTime changed them without asking. It just goes on and on, but just like the leather scene here on Folsom st, there's plenty of people willing to be whipped as long as it's done with style.
> Or just do the right thing and execute the criminals with the only exceptions being the ones whose cases are iffy.
Yeah, because there's never any iffy cases, especially when it's the state that's angling to put people to death as a matter of its own interest that decides whether a case was iffy or not. Independent judiciary? Don't make me laugh, the judges are usually elected, and even the ones that aren't are selected as idealogues by idealogues.
Sure I believe some people deserve to die. I just trust the government least of all to make that decision, and that's from actually observing how badly it has fucked it up again and again.
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Yet another kid who read a list of fallacies on Wikipedia and thinks he's mister Spock. Maybe you should read a little more, you might learn something. Like the fact that it would only apply to the argument if it were Dell making the accusations. Another harder subject to master is rhetoric, in which you learn that logical invalidity doesn't negate every argument.
Hey, at least it's not ad hominem. Well, actually it is, but at least it's a new term.
The explanation of that exploit is a good one, but it still requires root.
Isn't it just easier to remount the device?
News flash: root can break security. World ends at 10:00. Film at 11.
A 550 watt PSU won't even adequately power a SLI/Crossfire setup. They're selling kilowatt PSU's these days. Hell, I see one outfit selling a 1.6KW PSU. Now that might be overkill.
You're probably right. I still maintain that a stick beats WASD, and there are some kids freakishly good with the sticks, but the majority of people are better with the mouse. But really, if it's fun, it's fun, and the incoherent screaming of hypercompetitive Greater Internet Fuckwads (not accusing you, you're actually quite civil about it) about their control scheme serves only to amuse in a Jerry Springer kind of way.
Still, while I do find both console and PC shooters to be fun on their own merits, I am finding myself getting tired of the whole genre of "drive your character like a car through almost entirely flat terrain, with your gun as your interface to the world, pointing and clicking a path of destruction". I'd like to see more games where you can focus on tactics, and less on clicking the same things with a more detailed texture year after year. Sort of like the old Rainbow Six games, before they turned those into FPS's.
> me wonder why Apple isn't capitalizing on this and releasing the x86 version of X for generic x86 systems.
Because they'd like to keep selling hardware. And it's called OSX. X is a windowing system.
hopefully it will make hardware and software vendors question their strategy of only supporting Windows. If the future dominance of Windows is called into question, the developers may look to support other platforms instead.
I think you meant a different punctuation. Something more like:
"it will make hardware and software vendors question their strategy of only supporting Windows if the future dominance of Windows is called into question."
Microsoft is not NEARLY at that point yet, and there are few indicators that they will be. Hardware manufacturers are certainly not giving up driver development for XP, but that doesn't translate into them launching new development for OSX or Linux, because they still don't necessarily see a return on investment. The typical alternative for the vast majority of disillusioned Vista users is XP.
I think you'll be surprised. There's a generation of kids out there who pull off headshots every time using just the analog stick on high sensitivity. And analog sticks beat WASD for movement every time. Obviously some kind of hybrid controller is the answer (and there is one for the PS3, though the name escapes me)
Healthy skepticism is a good thing. http://www.cdi.org/blair/permissive-action-links.cfm
Granted, it's hard to get multiple sourcing on this, but Bruce Blair and the CDI are hardly a bunch of sensationalist muck-rackers. I suspect the audits to which you refer were partly a response to SAC's little maneuver.
> He is currently the ranking chair of the house finance committee
I'd be very surprised to see a Republican chairing any committee in the current congress. And a quick look shows that the current chair is Rep. Barney Frank, (D) MA.
It won't feel like you're shoving policy down their throats if you don't have a default password at all, but make it so that it won't function until you complete the setup, which involves setting a password.
Considering that you get folks like SAC who set the PAL codes for all their nukes to 00000, yeah there will always be people that bypass it. But at least won't be because nobody touched it at all -- someone had to run the setup. And when users get cranky and bypass it, then it's now 100% their problem. Especially when the SOX auditors come knocking.
IM IN YR DOCKET
FILING TEH BRIEFZ!
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Didn't watch much TV after the VA Tech shootings, did you? He was all over the airwaves. FNC already has sputtering reactionary jowl-waggers on staff, and doesn't need Thompson as much I guess.
Yep, hoard more stuff for more wealth. That's mercantilism in a nutshell.
> Everyone who has been keeping their money under their mattress
Is a god damned idiot. Inflation happens even in mercantile systems like the gold standard.
I want the minute of my life that it took to read that back.
> I've looked at ASP, from a code perspective, it doesn't seem exceptionally different from PHP.
That's because PHP is based on ASP model. Now try looking at ASP.NET, which is a completely different model, more like JSF or Tapestry.
> Nobody has to participate in the tech market or any market for that matter.
Short of being Amish, we all buy things from the outside. Heck, even they do. Some of us simply wish to strongly state a preference for the state of markets we choose to participate in. And given the vocal expression of SOME people in the market, not naming any names here, with respect to their product preferences, I think it's perfectly fair for them to get a little of it back.
I don't have an iPhone, don't want one, and don't want my carrier getting any ideas from Apple.
It's a novel legal theory, but the value is mostly in the comedy of its assumption that your HTTP headers are a creative work. Are you preparing to sue Cisco because their routers modify the IP packets that you originate?
CSS is a blunt hack that can only reformat the existing data, largely by hiding it. It cannot break it up into smaller pages, select different scripts to run, or negotiate different content altogether unless you have them download all the content for all media types then display only the types you want.
Plus, it's usually handhelds that have the poorest CSS support around.
Anyway, why would developers be annoyed? If a browser breaks your site, and you're following standards, the blame is on the browser, not on the developer.
Because Vodaphone customers may not know that Vodaphone is screwing up their browser, they just know that your site doesn't work with their phone. Then they go elsewhere, like a competitor that happens to be on Vodaphone's "white list". The whitelist is a good part of what they're "hopping mad" about.
> Well, if you don't have one and don't plan on ever getting one, why do you care?
Because he has to participate in the same market driven by people who reward the abusive behaviors of suppliers, thus creating an incentive for other suppliers to behave the same way, and lowering the supply for his demand. Simple economics.
> You seriously consider unlocking/hacking an iPhone, which you legally bought and own,
You seriously think you actually own anything anymore, in this society, in this century? Perhaps you own the lump of plastic and silicon. Certainly not its actual ability to function though. Welcome to the modern world.
Why is it that when a company like Microsoft or Oracle does some sort of lock-in or stunt like this, they're "so evil" and it's just such a demonstration of how evil they are, but when Apple does it they're just "doing what a business has to do"?
... back to what they were before QuickTime changed them without asking. It just goes on and on, but just like the leather scene here on Folsom st, there's plenty of people willing to be whipped as long as it's done with style.
It's called "special pleading", and it's been the standard defense of Apple from day 1. Apple is the company that invented the Look and Feel lawsuit. This is the company that sued Microsoft over MS Media player changing file associations
> Or just do the right thing and execute the criminals with the only exceptions being the ones whose cases are iffy.
Yeah, because there's never any iffy cases, especially when it's the state that's angling to put people to death as a matter of its own interest that decides whether a case was iffy or not. Independent judiciary? Don't make me laugh, the judges are usually elected, and even the ones that aren't are selected as idealogues by idealogues.
Sure I believe some people deserve to die. I just trust the government least of all to make that decision, and that's from actually observing how badly it has fucked it up again and again.
> I should have the right to veto what my child can see and do until he is 18.
You misspelled "your". That is, after all, what you meant, right?