So they ripped him off, on a feature that was requested by thousands upon thousands of people the moment the -original- iPhone landed. Maybe everyone who bought a first gen iPhone and complained that it -didn't- do OTA sync should complain that he ripped off their idea?
Some people need to take their money and be thankful they got to play in that game at all for whatever time it lasted.
Use a password management system, that is -not- on your computer. For instance 1Password is available on iOS devices. I'm sure Android has similar apps.
Osx is locked using drm to prevent it running in a virtual enviroment (Which really sucks for developers)
It is? You mean the single file "/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Library/CoreServices/ServerVersion.plist" that has to exist before Parallels or VMWare will consent to installing MacOS X in a VM? The file that VirtualBox last I checked didn't care about at all? While Apple actively declares in their EULA that MacOS X (The client version, the server version EULA contains no such specific requirement) can not be installed in a VM, the actual prevention of it is being done purely on the VM side in my experience. Now mind you, they do require it to be on a VM on "Apple Branded Hardware", though again I've seen nothing specific that forces that beyond a expectation of honesty from their users.
Now in my personal experience, while working on kernel extensions as a developer, I've had on and off again luck installing OSX in VM's. As Apple's motherboards aren't exactly stock off the shelf boards. So at points the VM software hasn't exactly provided a bug free experience, but that's not really Apple's fault, they write their OS for hardware they control, it's purely up to the VM authors to provide an environment that emulates the hardware appropriately. This is true of Windows as well, I would -love- to see Microsoft provide a update to DirectX that allows it to be easily virtualized by the VM makers. But at the end of the day, Microsoft writes their own OS to existing hardware, not tailored to the VM makers virtualized hardware. I'm assuming the investment isn't worth the cost for either OS vendor.
Does this further erode the argument that Fukushima was just an isolated incident in the 'modern' nuclear power age?
No, because neither Fukushima, nor this plant are part of the 'modern' nuclear power age... all existing commercial reactors afaik are positively ancient as far as tech years go.
I can count the number of games that were worth $60 on one hand... heck, even at $40 they were pushing it on the vast majority of published titles. Whereas a $1 game needs to be approximately as entertaining as a cup of coffee to be worth it...
Yeah that's it exactly. Your bank transactions are probably fine with SMS, it -is- a great way of handling security for a lot of transactions. Not perfect either, but what ever is? But for the greater future when discussing a replacement to SSL, now, during the design, is when to try and push it towards something that can be as secure as possible, not just for simple bank transactions but for any communications that may be happening across the network. Now as we all know there will of course be limits to what is possible, but we should be pushing those limits out as far as possible.
I realize the comment was posted as a joke of sorts, but on the sense of taking it seriously... say you've got someone with AT&T based Internet access and AT&T cell access. Then you're trusting the phone provider to not intercept and replace the one time pad with their own in a MITM attack. While texted messages is probably a fair amount of security for say, your WoW account, I wouldn't consider it secure for the communications that really matter. As the article says, when SSL was developed a lot of the ideas behind secure Internet communications were still being figured out on a basic level. Without the knowledge of just how sophisticated attacks were going to become. Anything designed today needs to consider just how sophisticated attacks are likely to be in 10 years. The backbone providers themselves have frequently in recent years proven highly untrustworthy. In the future communications will need to be at least verifiable, if not safely encrypted, even despite governments and major corporations controlling the wire.
And yet another study trying to drop all behavioral problems on video games. Lets not mention all the other things that kids are exposed to on a daily basis that could also cause kids to not be overly empathetic. Like movies, tv shows, news stories (As a parent I'm well aware that even if -I- were not to allow my kids access to the news, they will certainly hear about it at school, parents need to sit down and -talk- with their kids!), not to mention at least in the US two wars that have been plagued with problems that one could relate to "lack of empathy for the outcome" that have been going on for most of these children's lives. I've sat around and watched multiple politicians straight up say violence is a great answer to problems, and then they expect kids to not pick up on that general attitude of society?
In thousands of years of human history, what's the one single thing we've actually been able to prove makes a huge difference on how kids turn out? Parenting, and if they have any. Maybe with that record we should start giving parenting classes to parents with troubled children, rather than worry to much about video games, or books, or whathaveyou so specifically...
And that is probably half the problem right there. Perhaps instead all members of congress/senate/president should be forced to have -no- salary and live in taxpayer provided dorm housing w/ meals. With all upgrades to housing and/or meal plans must be voted on on the national level by the registered voting public -not- by the members of congress themselves.
Perhaps if it was a actual sacrifice to serve your country in that particular capacity again we might get some people who are half decent running.
And for the Yanks who will complain they live in the suburbs, maybe lobby your local government for better public transport? And stop complaining, this is an article from Europe.
While I agree with this, it's not always that easy. In the 10 years I've lived where I'm at I can remember 3 times where we the people have voted to have a light rail system built. Each time whoever was the governor at the time has managed to quietly redirect the money to other things while dropping the whole issue. Sadly the ability for the local area who's paying for and asking for it isn't enough population to change the governor. Us yanks would frequently love better public transportation, but in a huge number of cases it's actually corruption keeping it from being built.
I also watched this happen in Denver once with RTD too, when they were first supposed to build the light rail out from Denver. The vote passed, RTD was given their money, and... they built a new HQ building instead. On an up point at the time Denver's population noticed and actually made them build the light rail too. Though it took years extra to get started.
Yes you can. All that information is exported -automatically- by iTunes into a XML file. As far as iTunes and lock in go, it is specifically in relation to the hardware devices Apple produces such as iPod's and iPhone's that Apple keeps locked down (Which while I agree may be obnoxious is a different battle and has nothing to do with this). But Apple's music store has for years now provided DRM free tracks and playing such files with iTunes does export all the metadata in a readable fashion (Yes, I -have- written apps actually that use that information.)
Why would they bother to sue, iTunes -audio- files have not been DRM protected in years. The record companies might sue Google, because, well they sue everyone they don't make money from, but Apple has nothing to do with the equation as far as Google goes.
I don't see why everyone keeps comparing the two. A laptop and tablets like the iPad are simply not in the same market. Yes there is some overlap in use, but there's overlap between a laptop and my cell phone these days. If you want to get pedantic about it there's overlap between my laptop and the dvd player sitting on the shelf across the room. It doesn't put them into the same market at all. Why is it that everyone is still trying to make it as if it's exclusive, you can have one, or the other?
Admittedly, this just shows that whoever was handling the interview process and hiring was hiring poorly. It shows nothing about the actual quality of US vs. European vs. Indian graduates.
I've seen many a company in my years where the interview for IT positions was conducted by someone who could barely turn on a computer let alone conduct an appropriate interview for a position involving day to day work on computers of any kind. But when they end up with a "college graduate" who couldn't keep up with normal work? Well perhaps they should have had a professional conduct the interview.
I pay taxes because if I -don't- then I get thrown in jail. i.e. this is a gun to the head situation. I buy gas because if I can't get around I and my family will starve. i.e. this is a gun to the head situation.
On the other hand I buy chips because I like the taste, and I don't buy chips from companies whom I disagree with. I buy salsa because I enjoy it on my chips, but I don't buy salsa from companies whom I disagree with.
No one -is- forcing you to purchase music or movies. There's more than one movie I would -like- to have on DVD or Blu-ray, but I simply don't have. Why? Because the company doesn't sell it for the price, or region, or whatever I want. That's their lost sale, not my issue I have plenty of other things to entertain myself with.
I have a better solution to this exact problem. My wife and I just stopped buying dvd's and such. If the studios and artists involved don't -want- me to see their work, then I don't go out of my way to see it. If they wanted us to see it they would make it available to see in a useful fashion.
We're avid movie goers... or at least used to be. But we went from buying a number of dvd's/blu-ray's every month, as well as going to movies to not doing either. We're not pirating the content, we simply decided it was becoming too much hassle and -replaced- that entertainment with other things.
Now we're not straight up boycotting hollywood as a family, but unless something is available how we want it, where we want it, when -we- want it, for an affordable price, we just pass it up. There's nothing hollywood or the record companies produce that I truly feel like I'm missing out by not having access to it. It's entertainment, that's all. Now on the flip side, the studios -SHOULD- want to make it available to us, the consumer, however we decide we want to have access, because while it's just simply entertainment to us, it is THEIR jobs and the food on THEIR plates as an industry that fails if they decide to stop providing content in a fashion that allows them to even have customers.
So next time you think about pirating something, remember, no one is forcing you to pirate anything. On the contrary, no one is forcing you to give a shit about the studios content at all.
I always figure that the more "Big Brother" decides that your cell phone is absolute proof of your location, then the more easily it becomes for criminals to prove they weren't someplace by simply leaving their cell phone somewhere else.
But what does the amount of background radiation people experience every day have to do with this anyway... because people experience that every day, so am I wrong in thinking that any additional ionizing radiation is on -top- of the background radiation?
The difference is, that EA accepted his money apparently.
You can refuse to do business with a potential customer, but you can't take their money, then refuse to do business with them. By accepting their money you've already then agreed to do at least that particular exchange.
Despite the studies, and as a tech guy and a lifetime insomniac I can say from experience that the -reasons- for the use can make a huge difference. This is true of books and older "tech" too. A exciting story on the written page that gets you thinking isn't going to put you to sleep near as well as something that's quiet and calming. I find surfing the web doesn't bother what sleep pattern I have much. On the other hand I avoid news sites like the plague for the 3-4 hours before bed as I know there's bound to be something that will just irritate me and keep me awake.
Honestly folks. According to their store rules, any app that hits the open unfiltered internet gets slapped with a 17+. This even includes Wikipedia browsers and such. This is just like the ESRB putting a "Online experience may change" sticker. As others have pointed out, Safari isn't hit by this because Safari can be disabled in the parental controls section on both MacOS X accounts and iOS devices.
Now beyond that, lets be honest. If a parent knows what Opera is and wants it installed, then they'll install it. And if the kid has access to install things themselves then they'll click OK and go on with their lives. The age rating is there for certain individuals who want that information and control over their devices, everyone else can quite happily ignore it and move on. It's not law. They don't check your ID before each launch. It's not some giant conspiracy.
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So they ripped him off, on a feature that was requested by thousands upon thousands of people the moment the -original- iPhone landed. Maybe everyone who bought a first gen iPhone and complained that it -didn't- do OTA sync should complain that he ripped off their idea?
Some people need to take their money and be thankful they got to play in that game at all for whatever time it lasted.
Use a password management system, that is -not- on your computer. For instance 1Password is available on iOS devices. I'm sure Android has similar apps.
Osx is locked using drm to prevent it running in a virtual enviroment (Which really sucks for developers)
It is? You mean the single file "/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Library/CoreServices/ServerVersion.plist" that has to exist before Parallels or VMWare will consent to installing MacOS X in a VM? The file that VirtualBox last I checked didn't care about at all? While Apple actively declares in their EULA that MacOS X (The client version, the server version EULA contains no such specific requirement) can not be installed in a VM, the actual prevention of it is being done purely on the VM side in my experience. Now mind you, they do require it to be on a VM on "Apple Branded Hardware", though again I've seen nothing specific that forces that beyond a expectation of honesty from their users.
Now in my personal experience, while working on kernel extensions as a developer, I've had on and off again luck installing OSX in VM's. As Apple's motherboards aren't exactly stock off the shelf boards. So at points the VM software hasn't exactly provided a bug free experience, but that's not really Apple's fault, they write their OS for hardware they control, it's purely up to the VM authors to provide an environment that emulates the hardware appropriately. This is true of Windows as well, I would -love- to see Microsoft provide a update to DirectX that allows it to be easily virtualized by the VM makers. But at the end of the day, Microsoft writes their own OS to existing hardware, not tailored to the VM makers virtualized hardware. I'm assuming the investment isn't worth the cost for either OS vendor.
Does this further erode the argument that Fukushima was just an isolated incident in the 'modern' nuclear power age?
No, because neither Fukushima, nor this plant are part of the 'modern' nuclear power age... all existing commercial reactors afaik are positively ancient as far as tech years go.
I can count the number of games that were worth $60 on one hand... heck, even at $40 they were pushing it on the vast majority of published titles.
Whereas a $1 game needs to be approximately as entertaining as a cup of coffee to be worth it...
Apple actually licenses the trademark iOS from Cisco. There's no evil theft going on.
Yeah that's it exactly. Your bank transactions are probably fine with SMS, it -is- a great way of handling security for a lot of transactions. Not perfect either, but what ever is? But for the greater future when discussing a replacement to SSL, now, during the design, is when to try and push it towards something that can be as secure as possible, not just for simple bank transactions but for any communications that may be happening across the network. Now as we all know there will of course be limits to what is possible, but we should be pushing those limits out as far as possible.
I realize the comment was posted as a joke of sorts, but on the sense of taking it seriously... say you've got someone with AT&T based Internet access and AT&T cell access. Then you're trusting the phone provider to not intercept and replace the one time pad with their own in a MITM attack. While texted messages is probably a fair amount of security for say, your WoW account, I wouldn't consider it secure for the communications that really matter. As the article says, when SSL was developed a lot of the ideas behind secure Internet communications were still being figured out on a basic level. Without the knowledge of just how sophisticated attacks were going to become. Anything designed today needs to consider just how sophisticated attacks are likely to be in 10 years. The backbone providers themselves have frequently in recent years proven highly untrustworthy. In the future communications will need to be at least verifiable, if not safely encrypted, even despite governments and major corporations controlling the wire.
And yet another study trying to drop all behavioral problems on video games. Lets not mention all the other things that kids are exposed to on a daily basis that could also cause kids to not be overly empathetic. Like movies, tv shows, news stories (As a parent I'm well aware that even if -I- were not to allow my kids access to the news, they will certainly hear about it at school, parents need to sit down and -talk- with their kids!), not to mention at least in the US two wars that have been plagued with problems that one could relate to "lack of empathy for the outcome" that have been going on for most of these children's lives. I've sat around and watched multiple politicians straight up say violence is a great answer to problems, and then they expect kids to not pick up on that general attitude of society?
In thousands of years of human history, what's the one single thing we've actually been able to prove makes a huge difference on how kids turn out? Parenting, and if they have any. Maybe with that record we should start giving parenting classes to parents with troubled children, rather than worry to much about video games, or books, or whathaveyou so specifically...
And that is probably half the problem right there. Perhaps instead all members of congress/senate/president should be forced to have -no- salary and live in taxpayer provided dorm housing w/ meals. With all upgrades to housing and/or meal plans must be voted on on the national level by the registered voting public -not- by the members of congress themselves.
Perhaps if it was a actual sacrifice to serve your country in that particular capacity again we might get some people who are half decent running.
Ahh so much for wishful thinking...
And for the Yanks who will complain they live in the suburbs, maybe lobby your local government for better public transport? And stop complaining, this is an article from Europe.
While I agree with this, it's not always that easy. In the 10 years I've lived where I'm at I can remember 3 times where we the people have voted to have a light rail system built. Each time whoever was the governor at the time has managed to quietly redirect the money to other things while dropping the whole issue. Sadly the ability for the local area who's paying for and asking for it isn't enough population to change the governor. Us yanks would frequently love better public transportation, but in a huge number of cases it's actually corruption keeping it from being built.
I also watched this happen in Denver once with RTD too, when they were first supposed to build the light rail out from Denver. The vote passed, RTD was given their money, and... they built a new HQ building instead. On an up point at the time Denver's population noticed and actually made them build the light rail too. Though it took years extra to get started.
Yes you can. All that information is exported -automatically- by iTunes into a XML file. As far as iTunes and lock in go, it is specifically in relation to the hardware devices Apple produces such as iPod's and iPhone's that Apple keeps locked down (Which while I agree may be obnoxious is a different battle and has nothing to do with this). But Apple's music store has for years now provided DRM free tracks and playing such files with iTunes does export all the metadata in a readable fashion (Yes, I -have- written apps actually that use that information.)
Why would they bother to sue, iTunes -audio- files have not been DRM protected in years. The record companies might sue Google, because, well they sue everyone they don't make money from, but Apple has nothing to do with the equation as far as Google goes.
I don't see why everyone keeps comparing the two. A laptop and tablets like the iPad are simply not in the same market. Yes there is some overlap in use, but there's overlap between a laptop and my cell phone these days. If you want to get pedantic about it there's overlap between my laptop and the dvd player sitting on the shelf across the room. It doesn't put them into the same market at all. Why is it that everyone is still trying to make it as if it's exclusive, you can have one, or the other?
Admittedly, this just shows that whoever was handling the interview process and hiring was hiring poorly. It shows nothing about the actual quality of US vs. European vs. Indian graduates.
I've seen many a company in my years where the interview for IT positions was conducted by someone who could barely turn on a computer let alone conduct an appropriate interview for a position involving day to day work on computers of any kind. But when they end up with a "college graduate" who couldn't keep up with normal work? Well perhaps they should have had a professional conduct the interview.
Cheers to that!
I pay taxes because if I -don't- then I get thrown in jail. i.e. this is a gun to the head situation.
I buy gas because if I can't get around I and my family will starve. i.e. this is a gun to the head situation.
On the other hand I buy chips because I like the taste, and I don't buy chips from companies whom I disagree with.
I buy salsa because I enjoy it on my chips, but I don't buy salsa from companies whom I disagree with.
No one -is- forcing you to purchase music or movies. There's more than one movie I would -like- to have on DVD or Blu-ray, but I simply don't have. Why? Because the company doesn't sell it for the price, or region, or whatever I want. That's their lost sale, not my issue I have plenty of other things to entertain myself with.
Oddly enough, I've found this thing called "Self control" has solved that problem for me throughout my lifetime.
I have a better solution to this exact problem. My wife and I just stopped buying dvd's and such. If the studios and artists involved don't -want- me to see their work, then I don't go out of my way to see it. If they wanted us to see it they would make it available to see in a useful fashion.
We're avid movie goers... or at least used to be. But we went from buying a number of dvd's/blu-ray's every month, as well as going to movies to not doing either.
We're not pirating the content, we simply decided it was becoming too much hassle and -replaced- that entertainment with other things.
Now we're not straight up boycotting hollywood as a family, but unless something is available how we want it, where we want it, when -we- want it, for an affordable price, we just pass it up. There's nothing hollywood or the record companies produce that I truly feel like I'm missing out by not having access to it. It's entertainment, that's all. Now on the flip side, the studios -SHOULD- want to make it available to us, the consumer, however we decide we want to have access, because while it's just simply entertainment to us, it is THEIR jobs and the food on THEIR plates as an industry that fails if they decide to stop providing content in a fashion that allows them to even have customers.
So next time you think about pirating something, remember, no one is forcing you to pirate anything. On the contrary, no one is forcing you to give a shit about the studios content at all.
I always figure that the more "Big Brother" decides that your cell phone is absolute proof of your location, then the more easily it becomes for criminals to prove they weren't someplace by simply leaving their cell phone somewhere else.
But what does the amount of background radiation people experience every day have to do with this anyway... because people experience that every day, so am I wrong in thinking that any additional ionizing radiation is on -top- of the background radiation?
Isn't this an additive thing?
The difference is, that EA accepted his money apparently.
You can refuse to do business with a potential customer, but you can't take their money, then refuse to do business with them. By accepting their money you've already then agreed to do at least that particular exchange.
Despite the studies, and as a tech guy and a lifetime insomniac I can say from experience that the -reasons- for the use can make a huge difference. This is true of books and older "tech" too. A exciting story on the written page that gets you thinking isn't going to put you to sleep near as well as something that's quiet and calming. I find surfing the web doesn't bother what sleep pattern I have much. On the other hand I avoid news sites like the plague for the 3-4 hours before bed as I know there's bound to be something that will just irritate me and keep me awake.
Honestly folks. According to their store rules, any app that hits the open unfiltered internet gets slapped with a 17+. This even includes Wikipedia browsers and such. This is just like the ESRB putting a "Online experience may change" sticker. As others have pointed out, Safari isn't hit by this because Safari can be disabled in the parental controls section on both MacOS X accounts and iOS devices.
Now beyond that, lets be honest. If a parent knows what Opera is and wants it installed, then they'll install it. And if the kid has access to install things themselves then they'll click OK and go on with their lives. The age rating is there for certain individuals who want that information and control over their devices, everyone else can quite happily ignore it and move on. It's not law. They don't check your ID before each launch. It's not some giant conspiracy.
Just a note on a couple of these:
Fool's Errand has a sequel that's been in the making for awhile, but supposedly is getting close to release: http://www.fools-errand.com/
and Dark Castle: http://www.superhappyfunfun.com/games/gam_returntodc.html
And I agree, I would LOVE to see Ancient Art of War resurrected.