why batman is the biggest geek movie for now ?
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really, whats the reason for it ? isnt wall-e, for example, a major geek title in itself ? robots, full animation ? hello ? or hellboy 2 ? what separates batman from others ?
I am assuming you mean WinTel when refering to PCs. Windows is not dominant. Remember, Google's server farms might run on X86, but they use a custom Linux rollout with databasing software that is far removed from the limitations of MySQL.
i already said so myself. we are comparing pc with mac. not windows with mac os.
I gave you two examples of LARGE scale Mac farms. Virginia Tech and COLSA are both thousand plus node supercomputers built with XServes. That is about the scale of a Google server farm. One farm tends to be between 2000 and 5000 processors. If you want web services, look no farther than Apple's website, store and.mac/mobileme service. Oh, and iTunes seems to be a fairly hefty service, requiring a LARGE backend.
for the love of god. you know that if you dig deep enough, you can still find huge business networks running as400. being a large network doesnt mean anything with only 2 examples. i doubt that noone can ever dare compare any network to google or other company farms.
and coming to think of it, macs have been recently implanted with intel chips, am i wrong ? so they are basically what ? something like bastardized pcs running mac osx ?
Let's take CATIA, for example (not KATIA please). It isn't just a Windows program, and is a bad example for you to use if you want to claim that WinTel, or even X86 is dominant. It happens to run on MANY Unix platforms, including IBM RS/6000 with a Power PC 604 chip. You know, that happens to be the exact same chip Apple used in their high end workstations for quite a while. However, lets move to the present. CATIA also runs on Power 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 hardware, all the same PPC architecture Apple implemented for a decade, and quite successfully. If we move over to X86 hardware, CATIA runs on HP-UX. It also runs on a variety of RISC chips from SGI, and even UltraSPARC machines under SOLARIS
you very well know that 'also runs' doesnt hold any value. many software are made to run on many platforms, but designed with one platform at mind.
Windows ports are often done for the convenience of the customer,
thats a bold claim to make, considering that market reach is one of the most important factors for any software house. 'hey, just for the convenience' is not something realistic.
By "serious", if you mean word, excel, some financial software, and some standard business productivity suites, then yes, windows dominates.
that even goes without saying. despite we were comparing pcs with macs, not windows with macoses.
i bet many of those who were p2ping for the last 5-10 years have thought that. its SO evident that you'd be stupid not to see. the popularity of a game gives out how well it is doing for example. direct correlation. release a game one day, and if you monitor how widely game is pirated you'll know that how well your game is going to sell. and this happens half a day after release, even before, and doesnt cost a dime. to get such sales forecast reports in real life you have to spend huge money. with piracy, its free.
you can see how well a game/software/movie/series is doing long time after release, and therefore understand that what kind of product approach is being successful on the market too.
i dont think i need to give any long list (even that would be totally incomplete) of where pcs are used and which organizations/corporations/agencies use them. pc basically IS the computer for all of the world, and there are people around the world who use computers but dont know what does 'mac' mean.
The myth that 'serious applications' only run on PCs is FAR from accurate. For financials, there is MYOB and Quicken. For graphics there is Vectorworks and BRL-CAD. The list goes on. When you start to talk about "serious functionality" and programs that require proficiency beyond the OS, you need to realize that the platform should aid in that functionality of that software, not hinder it. In my experience, and in that of many power users, Windows hinders, OS X helps, and Linux can go either way.
actually it is accurate. the number, variety and scale of serious applications that run on the pc platform are incomparable with anything mac has. you have given some examples, but then again those examples are of common kind of 'serious' examples that pc platform runs. if you have an example that is on the scale of google's server farm being constructed with hordes of pcs running mysql, or a out-of-this-world design program like Katia (it is used to design space shuttle and components), then give them. for these are the scale and seriousness of pc platform software.
hich should bring more players to the certification market, stimulate competition and bring certification prices down.
bullshit. thats just wishful talking.
you cant go merrily break something and harm thousands of businesses and individuals because you hope/expect that things will work out eventually. there is no guarantee of it.
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Needless to say we do not support or condone copy protection circumvention methods like this and this particular incident is in direct conflict with Ubisoft's policies.
get a load of that ! they do not condone copy protection circumvention or, hell, god forbid support it, but their programmers are using cracks to fix their games' issues.
now the irony and hypocrisy doesnt end there. this company, now the infamous ubisoft, would merrily sue any hacker group if they got the chance. thats the real sh@t here.
Ubisoft should possibly have coded the exe file them selves, but I guess theres a good reason why they did not (as in no coders available at the time)
there are ALWAYS idiots like this who rationalize and stomachs even the shittiest, dirtiest stuff - a company which was banning people for even referring to no cd cracks, STEALS (i stressed it out, its a direcet STEAL, since no credit was given) a CRACK/HACK group's code, and then passes it as their fix. see the hypocrisy, see the filthiness and shittiness. yet this guy is able to justify it within his poor mind with just a sentence.
these morons constitute the biggest voter base for corrupt politicians. thanks to their idiocy of accepting anything and smoothing it up in their minds to stomach it, we are not living in a better world.
i dont see the point here. your president, secretary of state, commission members in senate all HAVE to do such trips, and they do it. its necessary to do that kind of travel when you are at the helm of anything important.
barack obama, is a very high chance, your next president. EVEN if he is not, he is practically the top democrat in the nation, and therefore can probably replace any other democrat in their duties, being the leader of the party that holds the majority in the congress.
you better be funding his trips with taxpayer money. you didnt do it with the last president, and he has made a fool of himself with his ignorance, and a mess of the world.
You obviously know nothing of the types of attacks certficates are there to protect, such as dns hijacking.
there are thousands of possible attack methods on the internet.
so we are going to hand over the authentication and identification of entities on the web to big buck companies, and then force anyone to pay them big cash just to prevent those attacks ?
the logic should be trying to prevent dns poisoning, or man in the middle via technical methods. not try to circumvent the issue by making some central authority(ies) decide whats genuine and what is not, and forcing all people to pay them for it.
what this ff3 cert thing is akin to government passing out a law to mandate everyone to get a zipper sewn into their back pocket in order to prevent a small percentage of population who cant hold on to their wallets.
since the idiot developers of star wars : force unleashed think that forcing people to play one side of the saga (evil until the end, only switching to good optional) is something attractive to all gamers (probably because they themselves are badass wannabees), i can just skip force unleashed and get to a better balanced game instead.
to all you game developers there - when you do a career optional game, forcing the player to continue with a career until the end and allow any other path only at the end is NOT A CAREER OPTIONAL GAME.
im surprised that there were no one with enough balls on the force unleashed team to point that out, so we ended up with a game that caters to badass wannabe bambino vaders.
you can justify anything regardless of its impacts elsewhere.
- if someone does not attentively type in a domain,
- if someone is still naive enough to click links on any email arriving and give out personal info whereas they never give their wallet or id to anyone in the street if asked to
then that someone has no business being on the internet.
excuse me, but thats not discrimination or anything else. its just the way it is. you dont let such people go around the town with a credit card and a wallet and an id in real life, and try to secure back pocket of their trousers. you shouldnt break more things than you try to fix in that fashion on the internet too.
but the recipient is having problems getting phished or easily deceived into believing some other site is in place of what she has specifically asked for, there are not much you can do.
once eu fines intel for monopoly, and then starts fining them a few hundred thousand bucks a day if they dont follow up on what eu ordered, intel will shape up its act.
they are straightening up microsoft as such in europe. they've been fined a few million for media player lawsuits, they dragged foot and delayed complying, and eu started fining them daily for latency. whoopss - thats the way to whack a bully.
None of that matters when you can't run the company, which is what happened to AMD. Of course the 'victim' is being blamed, they did it to themselves.
there is no 'when you cant run the company' in a situation that your only competitor does malpractice. intel is charged with other stuff than monopoly practices in korea, where their high level people have engaged in dirty tricks to outmaneuver amd.
just like microsoft.
well, you are what your friends, are, as the saying goes.
the foremost aim of an SSL cert is to encrypt the communication so 3rd parties cant eavesdrop.
it doesnt make a ZIT of difference if the site you are shopping from has a Verisign signed 256 bit certificate or a self signed certificate. almost all certs are encrypted with similar technologies encryption wise. if you are concerned with 'authenticity', you dont know a website or dont trust them or suspect them, you should NOT be shopping there in the first place.
yes, this move of firefox 3 is a VERY bad thing. it really pushes people to the arms of verisign, geotrust (which is verisign) and so on.
not only that, it will also force control panel companies like cpanel, which serve millions of website users through web hosts to have to force users of their services to pay for SSL certs for each server they use or let their users connect to their site control panels through unencrypted connections. that will eventually drive up prices in the high to mid end hosting market. which is BAD, since majority of people host their websites in such small business hosts with $3-4 bucks a month. the overall effect that will have is yet to be seen.
yes, this was a stupid move by mozilla team, unfortunately.
one has been reported just in the last 1.5 months span. many more issues with updates had been reported in the last 2 years. which slashdot you were reading, i wonder. its certainly not the one i read.
thousands of web hosting companies use RH to serve millions of websites. you are clueless about the market pal. rh one of the most popular web host platform choices.
the thing youre forgetting is that microsoft REGULARLY does that, and even with irrelevant minor updates. thats why people are too worked up because of microsoft. they will gonna let this red hat incident slip by, because red hat doesnt have a track record of messing it up.
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really, whats the reason for it ? isnt wall-e, for example, a major geek title in itself ? robots, full animation ? hello ? or hellboy 2 ? what separates batman from others ?
in this context, word piracy means more like distribution, and promotion and statistics through distribution.
I am assuming you mean WinTel when refering to PCs. Windows is not dominant. Remember, Google's server farms might run on X86, but they use a custom Linux rollout with databasing software that is far removed from the limitations of MySQL.
i already said so myself. we are comparing pc with mac. not windows with mac os.
I gave you two examples of LARGE scale Mac farms. Virginia Tech and COLSA are both thousand plus node supercomputers built with XServes. That is about the scale of a Google server farm. One farm tends to be between 2000 and 5000 processors. If you want web services, look no farther than Apple's website, store and .mac/mobileme service. Oh, and iTunes seems to be a fairly hefty service, requiring a LARGE backend.
for the love of god. you know that if you dig deep enough, you can still find huge business networks running as400. being a large network doesnt mean anything with only 2 examples. i doubt that noone can ever dare compare any network to google or other company farms.
and coming to think of it, macs have been recently implanted with intel chips, am i wrong ? so they are basically what ? something like bastardized pcs running mac osx ?
Let's take CATIA, for example (not KATIA please). It isn't just a Windows program, and is a bad example for you to use if you want to claim that WinTel, or even X86 is dominant. It happens to run on MANY Unix platforms, including IBM RS/6000 with a Power PC 604 chip. You know, that happens to be the exact same chip Apple used in their high end workstations for quite a while. However, lets move to the present. CATIA also runs on Power 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 hardware, all the same PPC architecture Apple implemented for a decade, and quite successfully. If we move over to X86 hardware, CATIA runs on HP-UX. It also runs on a variety of RISC chips from SGI, and even UltraSPARC machines under SOLARIS
you very well know that 'also runs' doesnt hold any value. many software are made to run on many platforms, but designed with one platform at mind.
Windows ports are often done for the convenience of the customer,
thats a bold claim to make, considering that market reach is one of the most important factors for any software house. 'hey, just for the convenience' is not something realistic.
By "serious", if you mean word, excel, some financial software, and some standard business productivity suites, then yes, windows dominates.
that even goes without saying. despite we were comparing pcs with macs, not windows with macoses.
and right content column with a top header bar on a website, go sue facebook. for, they are piggybacking on your success.
i bet many of those who were p2ping for the last 5-10 years have thought that. its SO evident that you'd be stupid not to see. the popularity of a game gives out how well it is doing for example. direct correlation. release a game one day, and if you monitor how widely game is pirated you'll know that how well your game is going to sell. and this happens half a day after release, even before, and doesnt cost a dime. to get such sales forecast reports in real life you have to spend huge money. with piracy, its free.
you can see how well a game/software/movie/series is doing long time after release, and therefore understand that what kind of product approach is being successful on the market too.
yea. surely they do not need that 5 people.
The myth that 'serious applications' only run on PCs is FAR from accurate. For financials, there is MYOB and Quicken. For graphics there is Vectorworks and BRL-CAD. The list goes on. When you start to talk about "serious functionality" and programs that require proficiency beyond the OS, you need to realize that the platform should aid in that functionality of that software, not hinder it. In my experience, and in that of many power users, Windows hinders, OS X helps, and Linux can go either way.
actually it is accurate. the number, variety and scale of serious applications that run on the pc platform are incomparable with anything mac has. you have given some examples, but then again those examples are of common kind of 'serious' examples that pc platform runs. if you have an example that is on the scale of google's server farm being constructed with hordes of pcs running mysql, or a out-of-this-world design program like Katia (it is used to design space shuttle and components), then give them. for these are the scale and seriousness of pc platform software.
hich should bring more players to the certification market, stimulate competition and bring certification prices down.
bullshit. thats just wishful talking.
you cant go merrily break something and harm thousands of businesses and individuals because you hope/expect that things will work out eventually. there is no guarantee of it.
i do not propose anything. if i had anything to propose, i would propose it.
wait, actually i am proposing something. im proposing that we do not break other things, while trying to fix something.
what the hell are you talking about
Needless to say we do not support or condone copy protection circumvention methods like this and this particular incident is in direct conflict with Ubisoft's policies.
get a load of that ! they do not condone copy protection circumvention or, hell, god forbid support it, but their programmers are using cracks to fix their games' issues.
now the irony and hypocrisy doesnt end there. this company, now the infamous ubisoft, would merrily sue any hacker group if they got the chance. thats the real sh@t here.
Ubisoft should possibly have coded the exe file them selves, but I guess theres a good reason why they did not (as in no coders available at the time)
there are ALWAYS idiots like this who rationalize and stomachs even the shittiest, dirtiest stuff - a company which was banning people for even referring to no cd cracks, STEALS (i stressed it out, its a direcet STEAL, since no credit was given) a CRACK/HACK group's code, and then passes it as their fix. see the hypocrisy, see the filthiness and shittiness. yet this guy is able to justify it within his poor mind with just a sentence.
these morons constitute the biggest voter base for corrupt politicians. thanks to their idiocy of accepting anything and smoothing it up in their minds to stomach it, we are not living in a better world.
i dont see the point here. your president, secretary of state, commission members in senate all HAVE to do such trips, and they do it. its necessary to do that kind of travel when you are at the helm of anything important.
barack obama, is a very high chance, your next president. EVEN if he is not, he is practically the top democrat in the nation, and therefore can probably replace any other democrat in their duties, being the leader of the party that holds the majority in the congress.
you better be funding his trips with taxpayer money. you didnt do it with the last president, and he has made a fool of himself with his ignorance, and a mess of the world.
you, as citizens, are going to take up arms as per your constitution states, and make them obey by congress/senate's will.
You obviously know nothing of the types of attacks certficates are there to protect, such as dns hijacking.
there are thousands of possible attack methods on the internet.
so we are going to hand over the authentication and identification of entities on the web to big buck companies, and then force anyone to pay them big cash just to prevent those attacks ?
the logic should be trying to prevent dns poisoning, or man in the middle via technical methods. not try to circumvent the issue by making some central authority(ies) decide whats genuine and what is not, and forcing all people to pay them for it.
what this ff3 cert thing is akin to government passing out a law to mandate everyone to get a zipper sewn into their back pocket in order to prevent a small percentage of population who cant hold on to their wallets.
for rp genre of course, and mmo too.
since the idiot developers of star wars : force unleashed think that forcing people to play one side of the saga (evil until the end, only switching to good optional) is something attractive to all gamers (probably because they themselves are badass wannabees), i can just skip force unleashed and get to a better balanced game instead.
to all you game developers there - when you do a career optional game, forcing the player to continue with a career until the end and allow any other path only at the end is NOT A CAREER OPTIONAL GAME.
im surprised that there were no one with enough balls on the force unleashed team to point that out, so we ended up with a game that caters to badass wannabe bambino vaders.
you can justify anything regardless of its impacts elsewhere.
- if someone does not attentively type in a domain,
- if someone is still naive enough to click links on any email arriving and give out personal info whereas they never give their wallet or id to anyone in the street if asked to
then that someone has no business being on the internet.
excuse me, but thats not discrimination or anything else. its just the way it is. you dont let such people go around the town with a credit card and a wallet and an id in real life, and try to secure back pocket of their trousers. you shouldnt break more things than you try to fix in that fashion on the internet too.
but the recipient is having problems getting phished or easily deceived into believing some other site is in place of what she has specifically asked for, there are not much you can do.
once eu fines intel for monopoly, and then starts fining them a few hundred thousand bucks a day if they dont follow up on what eu ordered, intel will shape up its act.
they are straightening up microsoft as such in europe. they've been fined a few million for media player lawsuits, they dragged foot and delayed complying, and eu started fining them daily for latency. whoopss - thats the way to whack a bully.
None of that matters when you can't run the company, which is what happened to AMD. Of course the 'victim' is being blamed, they did it to themselves.
there is no 'when you cant run the company' in a situation that your only competitor does malpractice. intel is charged with other stuff than monopoly practices in korea, where their high level people have engaged in dirty tricks to outmaneuver amd.
just like microsoft.
well, you are what your friends, are, as the saying goes.
the foremost aim of an SSL cert is to encrypt the communication so 3rd parties cant eavesdrop.
it doesnt make a ZIT of difference if the site you are shopping from has a Verisign signed 256 bit certificate or a self signed certificate. almost all certs are encrypted with similar technologies encryption wise. if you are concerned with 'authenticity', you dont know a website or dont trust them or suspect them, you should NOT be shopping there in the first place.
yes, this move of firefox 3 is a VERY bad thing. it really pushes people to the arms of verisign, geotrust (which is verisign) and so on.
not only that, it will also force control panel companies like cpanel, which serve millions of website users through web hosts to have to force users of their services to pay for SSL certs for each server they use or let their users connect to their site control panels through unencrypted connections. that will eventually drive up prices in the high to mid end hosting market. which is BAD, since majority of people host their websites in such small business hosts with $3-4 bucks a month. the overall effect that will have is yet to be seen.
yes, this was a stupid move by mozilla team, unfortunately.
one has been reported just in the last 1.5 months span. many more issues with updates had been reported in the last 2 years. which slashdot you were reading, i wonder. its certainly not the one i read.
it should have been at +5, but as you can see there are many apple zealots amongst us.
thousands of web hosting companies use RH to serve millions of websites. you are clueless about the market pal. rh one of the most popular web host platform choices.
the thing youre forgetting is that microsoft REGULARLY does that, and even with irrelevant minor updates. thats why people are too worked up because of microsoft. they will gonna let this red hat incident slip by, because red hat doesnt have a track record of messing it up.