Agreed. After reading through basically a transcript by Engadget, it was weird how defensive Apple is about the whole thing. You don't come out and hold a highly anticipated and hyped press conference, claim that this isn't a problem, then give away free cases to everybody (which you previously were charging $30+ for). If it's not a problem, why even bother giving out cases? Why bother showing your test facilities and talk about how many engineers worked on the phone? This is like Microsoft coming out and saying "Well, we had 300 Computer Science Engineers working on Vista, and 50 testers constantly testing Vista, so there isn't a problem."
This whole press conference was weird, including the errors in the slides he was showing...
I've never heard of anyone trying to get through an RPG as quickly as possible and enjoying it. If you're just trying to "beat" it, you miss out on so much. (BTW, if you play Mass Effect 2, I'd argue that the main mission is not the point of the game. The side missions are the "main" game, and the Main story is just the structure for an ending.)
If Bioware decides to make it multiplayer, this game would be a mMORPG (minorly-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game). The reason why Dragon Age combat was competent was because it was MMO Mechanics where you control each of the other players.
The public first became aware of terminator technology in patents jointly owned by the USDA and Delta and Pine Land Company. That engenered massive protests worldwide, and Monsanto, which acquired the Delta nad Pine Land patent rights, backed down from developing the terminator crops described in that particular patent. However, as Ho and Cummins were to learn, there are many ways to engineer sterility, each the subject of a separate patent.
emphasis in the original.
This is from "GMO free: eposing the hazard of biotechology and ensure the integrity of our food supply" by Mae-Wan Ho and Lim Li Ching and the Independent Science Panel on GM. There are 203 studies referenced in this book, and it looks fairly objective.
So it looks like Monstanto uses the "we don't use a 'terminator gene'* in our crops" (*but we do find ways to keep a plant from producing viable seeds) verbiage.
Comcast here in Utah, when I signed up for internet a couple years ago, it was the same price (!) to have a basic television package added. Now, they bug me to upgrade to a $30+ a month television plan on top every month, but I have no need for it, thanks to Hulu and Netflix.
Of course, its very basic television, no Set top box, and only History channel, Discovery and Cspan and some other garbage are the only additional channels I get outside of broadcast channels, but its free, so hey, who could complain.
Comparing the Fairness Doctrine to the government blocking access to blasphemous websites shows me how much the Fairness Doctrine has become a catch-all boogeyman term for "censorship".
Intimidation/threats are against the law. Prosecute that. Whenever someone argues that we should ban/stop something because possibly one day it might be used to commit a crime, you've lost. Same goes for Torrents, Guns, books, video games, etc.
At least in my state, to be a valid signature, An address is required along with your name. "Padding" can be fairly easy found out by invalid addresses, or doing a random sample and contacting some of the people who signed the petition to verify they did sign the petition. Making signatures public information is good because more of the public can be utilized for verification of signatures.
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And it will be a bigger deal for apple, since they would have to approve the app first directly, and then reverse their approval.
Curious: Would it ever be ok for Google to disable a malicious app remotely? (Aside, I'm sure that google would not have done this if they "had no legal standing" to do so, check the TOS.)
Let's restate it in the opposite way: IF apple were keeping out only apps that were security risks and allowing through everything else, some random people on/. would complain about "It's my phone!", but the overall outrage over censorship, unfair app approvals and a questionable approval process would be, to most people, not an issue.
This is the biggest failing of MS's implementation of HDD installs. Disc 1 from any Multi-Disc game should authorize the console to read any disc off of the HDD. I mean, Mass Effect 2, You had to get up and swap the disc, it would spin it to read that it was the disc, and never access it again. I don't understand why MS doesn't make this change.
Also, these developers have now mastered the current gen systems, much like they did with Xbox1 and PS2. In the 1-2 years of the last generation before the new generation came out, we got the most artistic and stylistic games, due to the limits of the system AND because the developers knew the system well enough that they didn't need to focus on learning the system anymore, they could spend more time on gameplay tweaks and art style.
You can probably expect more "tricks" to keep games from now on looking really good, but I keep seeing new games that continue to impress me graphically, especially if you go back and look at some of the launch titles. Devs are still cracking this hardware open to do new things. I'd personally like to see a smaller jump in increased resolution and instead have a huge leap in load times and reduction in things like screen tearing, increasing anti-aliaising, and graphics Quality.
Obama requested to cancel it after his special task force said that it was over cost and that either Obama needed to start paying for space travel, or not doing it at all, and the half measure that was in place wasn't working. However, before that, congress passed a law saying that Constellation could only be cancelled by congress (nice, eh?). On top of that, Obama only gets to sign the budget, congress still gets to write the budget, and they get to put in whatever they want.
If a drug kingpin is using cell phones exclusively to do his dealings, never touching product or dirty work, and tossing phones fast enough to render warrants useless... then what? What could the courts do for you exactly?
At least an ID can be flagged in the system that the court can say "when a person with this ID buys a disposable phone, your Warrant that the court has approved can be used to tap that disposable phone..."
Well, I'm not going to do the work finding the links for you, but Michael Brown, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News Hosts and guests all claimed at one point that this was allowed to happen by the administration to sabotage the Energy Bill going through congress.
Character resolution is ALL the finale gave us, without extending beyond the Island. The story began with Jack on the island and ended with his death on the island. You can suss out that Kate and Sawyer and Claire all lived off the island, but never were as happy as they were on the island, Hurley and Ben watched the island for some undetermined amount of time. The island is still there, and it's still strange and mysterious. Maybe the island is made of midichloreans, would that have been a better ending?
"Given that Battlestar was the last finale I watched, it handled similar material in a much better way."
I mean to say that LOST handled the spirituality and God question better/more coherently than BSG's Deus Ex Machina ending.
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Agreed. After reading through basically a transcript by Engadget, it was weird how defensive Apple is about the whole thing. You don't come out and hold a highly anticipated and hyped press conference, claim that this isn't a problem, then give away free cases to everybody (which you previously were charging $30+ for). If it's not a problem, why even bother giving out cases? Why bother showing your test facilities and talk about how many engineers worked on the phone? This is like Microsoft coming out and saying "Well, we had 300 Computer Science Engineers working on Vista, and 50 testers constantly testing Vista, so there isn't a problem."
This whole press conference was weird, including the errors in the slides he was showing...
I've never heard of anyone trying to get through an RPG as quickly as possible and enjoying it. If you're just trying to "beat" it, you miss out on so much. (BTW, if you play Mass Effect 2, I'd argue that the main mission is not the point of the game. The side missions are the "main" game, and the Main story is just the structure for an ending.)
If Bioware decides to make it multiplayer, this game would be a mMORPG (minorly-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game). The reason why Dragon Age combat was competent was because it was MMO Mechanics where you control each of the other players.
emphasis in the original.
This is from "GMO free: eposing the hazard of biotechology and ensure the integrity of our food supply" by Mae-Wan Ho and Lim Li Ching and the Independent Science Panel on GM. There are 203 studies referenced in this book, and it looks fairly objective.
So it looks like Monstanto uses the "we don't use a 'terminator gene'* in our crops" (*but we do find ways to keep a plant from producing viable seeds) verbiage.
Comcast here in Utah, when I signed up for internet a couple years ago, it was the same price (!) to have a basic television package added. Now, they bug me to upgrade to a $30+ a month television plan on top every month, but I have no need for it, thanks to Hulu and Netflix.
Of course, its very basic television, no Set top box, and only History channel, Discovery and Cspan and some other garbage are the only additional channels I get outside of broadcast channels, but its free, so hey, who could complain.
In this case it was Lies, Damned Lies, and "stuff we made up".
Comparing the Fairness Doctrine to the government blocking access to blasphemous websites shows me how much the Fairness Doctrine has become a catch-all boogeyman term for "censorship".
lawd that's a lot of movies in a month. Watching 3 a week is stretching it for me.
Intimidation/threats are against the law. Prosecute that. Whenever someone argues that we should ban/stop something because possibly one day it might be used to commit a crime, you've lost. Same goes for Torrents, Guns, books, video games, etc.
At least in my state, to be a valid signature, An address is required along with your name. "Padding" can be fairly easy found out by invalid addresses, or doing a random sample and contacting some of the people who signed the petition to verify they did sign the petition. Making signatures public information is good because more of the public can be utilized for verification of signatures.
And it will be a bigger deal for apple, since they would have to approve the app first directly, and then reverse their approval.
Curious: Would it ever be ok for Google to disable a malicious app remotely? (Aside, I'm sure that google would not have done this if they "had no legal standing" to do so, check the TOS.)
Let's restate it in the opposite way: IF apple were keeping out only apps that were security risks and allowing through everything else, some random people on /. would complain about "It's my phone!", but the overall outrage over censorship, unfair app approvals and a questionable approval process would be, to most people, not an issue.
...Or The Jungle Book, or The Little Mermaid, or The Hunchback of Notre Dame, or Beauty and the Beast, or...
This is the biggest failing of MS's implementation of HDD installs. Disc 1 from any Multi-Disc game should authorize the console to read any disc off of the HDD. I mean, Mass Effect 2, You had to get up and swap the disc, it would spin it to read that it was the disc, and never access it again. I don't understand why MS doesn't make this change.
Also, these developers have now mastered the current gen systems, much like they did with Xbox1 and PS2. In the 1-2 years of the last generation before the new generation came out, we got the most artistic and stylistic games, due to the limits of the system AND because the developers knew the system well enough that they didn't need to focus on learning the system anymore, they could spend more time on gameplay tweaks and art style.
You can probably expect more "tricks" to keep games from now on looking really good, but I keep seeing new games that continue to impress me graphically, especially if you go back and look at some of the launch titles. Devs are still cracking this hardware open to do new things. I'd personally like to see a smaller jump in increased resolution and instead have a huge leap in load times and reduction in things like screen tearing, increasing anti-aliaising, and graphics Quality.
Obama requested to cancel it after his special task force said that it was over cost and that either Obama needed to start paying for space travel, or not doing it at all, and the half measure that was in place wasn't working. However, before that, congress passed a law saying that Constellation could only be cancelled by congress (nice, eh?). On top of that, Obama only gets to sign the budget, congress still gets to write the budget, and they get to put in whatever they want.
Well, more accurately, we can only support exploring the universe around us if we find a way for private companies to sell tickets.
What? You do know that ATK's Rockets that are used for shuttle launches are called "Reusable Solid Rocket Motors", right?
How does a warrant help if you don't know who is using a disposable phone?
I'd say on the outrage meter, this idea should be roundly welcomed with a rollback on the "Wide Net" wiretaps that are currently occuring!
If a drug kingpin is using cell phones exclusively to do his dealings, never touching product or dirty work, and tossing phones fast enough to render warrants useless... then what? What could the courts do for you exactly?
At least an ID can be flagged in the system that the court can say "when a person with this ID buys a disposable phone, your Warrant that the court has approved can be used to tap that disposable phone..."
Well, I'm not going to do the work finding the links for you, but Michael Brown, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News Hosts and guests all claimed at one point that this was allowed to happen by the administration to sabotage the Energy Bill going through congress.
Does Natal burst into flames if you stand in front of the camera with a controller in your hand? Maybe that's why the price is higher than expected.
Yeah, but HOW does Luke move a lightsaber with the force? No explanation given at all...
Character resolution is ALL the finale gave us, without extending beyond the Island. The story began with Jack on the island and ended with his death on the island. You can suss out that Kate and Sawyer and Claire all lived off the island, but never were as happy as they were on the island, Hurley and Ben watched the island for some undetermined amount of time. The island is still there, and it's still strange and mysterious. Maybe the island is made of midichloreans, would that have been a better ending?
"Given that Battlestar was the last finale I watched, it handled similar material in a much better way." I mean to say that LOST handled the spirituality and God question better/more coherently than BSG's Deus Ex Machina ending.