We should take a lesson from this... get rid of the damn patents. We'd have to spend millions of dollars to prove that we didn't rip off someone else's design.
My wife uses it in her daily Wii Fit and Wii Sports routine & my grandmother uses it at her nursing home 1x a week... there is a sign up sheet and a line.
I have used it for Wii Sports and Zelda's crossbow training, but otherwise, for the games that allow a controller, I use the controller.
Heck, my mother touched Wii and hates anything that isn't a typewriter.
This is brilliant marketing by LucasArts... and they are going to make a crap load of cash off it.
By using Steam &/or XBL, they don't have to "go gold", market deals with big box distributors, remaking packaging, etc. And we as the players don't have to screw around with DOSBox or SCUMVM.
While these essays are probably available in some form or another on the web, I'll be in for one of these books. Thank you for the review.
As an Information Security professional, I look for books and other easy to read documentation that I can recommend to management and others who indicate an interest in (or need a push in the right direction) info security. Most of the time, if I e-mail them a link or story, it gets blown off. If I can put a document (screw paper saving) in their hands or a book with a chapter as "homework" I seem to get a better response.
Anti-trust is based on the altruist idea that the more successful you are - (aka "selfish") - the more evil you are, and the evil successful need to be brought down to favor the less successful, or failures. This also happens to be the moral underpinning for bailouts, welfare, "soak the rich", government healthcare, and many more.
Oh yeah, it's also a Christian ideal.
Being a so called "liberal Christian" I'm very curious about how Anti-trust is a Christian ideal. Doesn't the "Good Book" say to go and do things to the best of our abilities?
I'm a salaried sucker who works with information security (obviously I enjoy life less - according to research)... I haven't seen an dollar of overtime since I got this job!
Yet, I also believe that I am paid fairly for what I do and the part of the country where I live. I make more than 66% of the people living in my county... given the medium salary for a family of 4 is $29,000 year.
This products locks down damn near everything. You can customize almost everything, and its a bitch to bypass. Time restrictions are firm, co-ordinated to the bsafeonline clock, so changing the local time on the machine doesn't do anything.
As a service, if disabled it will force a reboot.
My mom (meaning I set it up) has it set up to e-mail her (my dad) anytime a rule is triggered.
And the fact that it has a reputation as being something only computer geeks "can" use.
Which is really sad. Case and point... my mother is 57 years old. She hates computers. Up to two years ago, she would pull out her typewriter and type up a letter before touching "one of those damn machines". But, a year ago, she found that she could see and interact with her grandchildren who live 6+ hours away over a webcam. That changed everything. So, in her kitchen, but put together a small box, and installed Ubuntu. She has never worked with Microsoft, and probably never will, but for her, Linux is the greatest thing ever.
It all comes down to what the novice user has used before. I'm proud of my mom - and she tells her friends that she uses the Penguin with a funny name.
Well, we researched the product, and while Office 2007 isn't a bad thing, its way too damn expensive. When we are looking to upgrade 125+ licenses, its going to cost us way more than any of us can justify, no matter how cool the options are.
We are currently running Office 2000 and our next "upgrade" is, Open Office.
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We should take a lesson from this... get rid of the damn patents. We'd have to spend millions of dollars to prove that we didn't rip off someone else's design.
...continue to welcome my soveriegn overlords... Google.
They have pwned my soul for the past 6 years!!!
My wife uses it in her daily Wii Fit and Wii Sports routine & my grandmother uses it at her nursing home 1x a week... there is a sign up sheet and a line. I have used it for Wii Sports and Zelda's crossbow training, but otherwise, for the games that allow a controller, I use the controller. Heck, my mother touched Wii and hates anything that isn't a typewriter.
I also learned that playing D&D makes you sarcastic and bitter.
Really? No shit.
This is brilliant marketing by LucasArts... and they are going to make a crap load of cash off it.
By using Steam &/or XBL, they don't have to "go gold", market deals with big box distributors, remaking packaging, etc. And we as the players don't have to screw around with DOSBox or SCUMVM.
I'm excited and ready to buy some classics!
So what proc will they use for this? There current choice is highly suspect (imo)...
Mark Cuban is an ass.
He is a DRM proponent, and can't stand the idea of true innovation whether its a "free" model or not.
Sure, if you live by "free" you will die by "free"... but won't you die happy knowing that you were "free"?
While these essays are probably available in some form or another on the web, I'll be in for one of these books. Thank you for the review.
As an Information Security professional, I look for books and other easy to read documentation that I can recommend to management and others who indicate an interest in (or need a push in the right direction) info security. Most of the time, if I e-mail them a link or story, it gets blown off. If I can put a document (screw paper saving) in their hands or a book with a chapter as "homework" I seem to get a better response.
Anti-trust is based on the altruist idea that the more successful you are - (aka "selfish") - the more evil you are, and the evil successful need to be brought down to favor the less successful, or failures. This also happens to be the moral underpinning for bailouts, welfare, "soak the rich", government healthcare, and many more.
Oh yeah, it's also a Christian ideal.
Being a so called "liberal Christian" I'm very curious about how Anti-trust is a Christian ideal. Doesn't the "Good Book" say to go and do things to the best of our abilities?
So I tell my boss that I'm testing a Linux desktop... by playing games in my browser?! Sweet action, I'm in. Happy Friday!
They didn't prove that she had a plan, they only showed that she tampered with an account. Thankfully our legal system requires the burden of PROOF.
Uhm, not sure where you work, but its more of NSFW!
I'm a salaried sucker who works with information security (obviously I enjoy life less - according to research)... I haven't seen an dollar of overtime since I got this job! Yet, I also believe that I am paid fairly for what I do and the part of the country where I live. I make more than 66% of the people living in my county... given the medium salary for a family of 4 is $29,000 year.
Is this thread then owned (or Pwned) by the Ford Motor Company?
The much more surprising stat isn't about FireFox... its the 3% that Google has from their _desktop_ software.
sorry, bad link.
http://bsafehome.com/
My mother is a full time baby sitter. She has some kids (ages 7 - 10) who want to use the computer.
To make matters worse, she hates the "damn machines" and doesn't know anything about them.
In comes bsafeonline http://http//bsafehome.com/
This products locks down damn near everything. You can customize almost everything, and its a bitch to bypass. Time restrictions are firm, co-ordinated to the bsafeonline clock, so changing the local time on the machine doesn't do anything.
As a service, if disabled it will force a reboot.
My mom (meaning I set it up) has it set up to e-mail her (my dad) anytime a rule is triggered.
Its a good product and very effective.
Oooooo, look! Shiny!
Even if its not cut and dry, this is EXCELLENT for the CPU industry. We need to see competition between the manufacturers.
Don't let that get lost in the arguments between which is better or what have you. Continued improvements and development benefits everyone.
Fermi Paradox isn't even applicable! All those alien UFOs out there that people keep ignoring! At least thats what my grandfather told me.
Actually it was their components which were supposed to be able to be used in missile systems... not the game system as a weapon.
Which is really sad. Case and point... my mother is 57 years old. She hates computers. Up to two years ago, she would pull out her typewriter and type up a letter before touching "one of those damn machines". But, a year ago, she found that she could see and interact with her grandchildren who live 6+ hours away over a webcam. That changed everything. So, in her kitchen, but put together a small box, and installed Ubuntu. She has never worked with Microsoft, and probably never will, but for her, Linux is the greatest thing ever.
It all comes down to what the novice user has used before. I'm proud of my mom - and she tells her friends that she uses the Penguin with a funny name.
I'm going to have to disagree. This tactic is not what got us into Iraq - it is part of what is keeping us there. That and the oil.
Hmm.... I thought that was actually near frame 10237... are you sure?
Well, we researched the product, and while Office 2007 isn't a bad thing, its way too damn expensive. When we are looking to upgrade 125+ licenses, its going to cost us way more than any of us can justify, no matter how cool the options are. We are currently running Office 2000 and our next "upgrade" is, Open Office.