For use on OS-X, probably using glimmerblocker. Nice for those using multiple browsers since it runs as proxy. Also never becomes incompatible between Safari versions (add-on experience in Safari has been less than ideal during transitions).
Perhaps for some that is possible, although clearly Microsoft has no process in place to do something in that amount of time. With analysis, design, implementation, unit testing, code reviews, and whatever else their software cycle involves, I don't think they have a chance at having anything at all releasable in 5 days. So this expectation is a known impossibility, and likely known to some degree by those responsible for releasing the information.
And I don't fault them for actually following their own process and not rushing things out. Sure, they might be able to throw together some half-assed fix in a fraction of the time, but what will the consequences be? Instability? Data loss? An entirely new security hole as bad as the original? It's entirely possible the damage done through hasty work could even be worse than the exploit itself. Just "closing the hole" might mean leaving the OS inoperable (in broad generic terms, not whatever this story is referencing). Sure, maybe their process could be stream-lined, and improved upon, but 5 days can easily be chewed through especially in "big" software projects.
Changing a single option in the settings (on android) to enable use of apps from other sources takes at most 5 seconds. Jailbreaking is THAT quick?
Damn near anyway. Assuming that blackrain or whatever is already downloaded, it is probably closer to like 20 seconds or something after docking, but it is very quick.
Maybe, although there are a few nice things about TPB. For one the VIP / Trusted system was at times useful, especially when looking for release day type content. Also, the comments posted on TPB were useful at times, although some other sites include comment systems as well. TPB also has one of the least cluttered no-nonsense layouts (with ad-block of course), where some of the other sites are so cluttered it gets confusing as to where the actual links even are. So I still prefer it to just straight google, but like you said, it won't actually stop anything either way, it's just a preference thing.
*Very* careless employees, perhaps bragging that they have the new 4g (perhaps while intoxicated). Then leaving them behind, or not noticing that the phone disappeared 2 minutes after they bragged about it.
I suppose it's possible, but I have a hard time believing this personally. Maybe not everyone is like this, but regardless of what mental state I'm in, I always am very careful about checking what exactly is in my pockets frequently. Even small weight differences will set off internal alarms when items which ought to be in the pockets are not there. I suppose I'm just OCD about it, but I will not leave a location without double checking that all items on my person are where they belong.
Seems faster? In my experience it has been more than "seems", Chrome actually is faster. The thing keeping me on Firefox is the various add-ons which I cannot get in Chrome. If Chrome were to get vertical tabs, that would go a long way towards making a switch.
It would be nice if Firefox did improve performance though. Would be a lot more significant than a trimmed down interface while the program runs just as slow.
Here is the difference between what Ubisoft and Blizzard are doing.
Ubisoft is putting this stupid "connected all the time" stuff in Single-Player Games. There's no Multi I know of in AC2. So it's somewhere that server connections are completely inappropriate. It's just a complete waste to include it.
Starcraft II is meant to be Multi-Player, that is what the primary focus has always been, its what the Beta is testing (exclusively, no campaign testing in the Beta). Sure there is going to be a campaign, and you might even play through it more than once, but the many hours most people are going to burn on this is going to be Multi.
So I for one will be buying the game, because just about the only thing I care about at all IS Multi-Player and I don't have people local to play on a LAN either. The game could come with absolutely no single player features at all and I would still be buying it. If the game did not come with Multi-Player I would need to seriously reconsider if it was worth buying. The "must be connected to battle.net" thing is redundant to me, I'm going to be there anyway.
Agree strongly. After enjoying ZP I started looking around at some of the other batches of videos and most of them are entirely pathetic in comparison. If the first video I saw on the site was not ZP I probably would have never come back.
You do realize that words like "theft" and "stealing" have well defined meanings? The definition of the word is not subject to your opinion. You can call it whatever you want, but that doesn't make it true. It is what it is.
Yeah, exactly what I thought. In fact, is there anything preventing simply copying the theme files from the prior release? I suppose it would be more difficult if the format of the theme files changed, but probably still wouldn't require any code changes either way.
I keep hearing people say they are waiting for this... Does it actually exist?
I have heard of people actually getting it, and even claiming that it works for them. However in my experience, even getting the advertisement for FIOS in the mailbox does not have any connection to FIOS actually arriving in the neighborhood. I called them up, explained that since they were advertising in the area it would make sense to have the service on the way, and was told nothing was being done to bring it to my area. Verizon offered me DSL.
Well, how about changing it to UQM for Star Control 2 (The Ur-Quan Masters). Isn't that what the open source port uses?
It's really too bad there has not been any real successor to Star Control 2 though, great game, and the dialogue is absolutely hilarious. I still use quotes from that game.
Also, Brood War didn't allow spawning, and I suspect almost no one plays starcraft without Brood War these days (or in the last several years), except perhaps ultra-casually.
Brood War also didn't use a CD-Key, so if you had the means to emulate the disc the expansion was playable on battle.net.
Of course now this is a complete non-issue because Blizzard now offers a complete Starcraft with BroodWar installer from battle.net "2.0" (is that what it is?) after the user attaches their Starcraft CD key to the new account. The games also no longer require the disc to be in the drive assuming the correct MPQ's are copied over as well. So basically now an original Starcraft key is all that is required.
Infinity Ward has actually perfected that technology. MW2 doesn't just randomly pick and hope for the worst connection like most games, it consistently picks the worst connection every time.
Really? So turning the radio off is not responding well? Who would have thought...
Maybe you have a point, but on a personal level I just don't accept that everyone is vulnerable to this crap we are exposed to, especially if an active effort is made to reduce exposure to a minimum. Especially in this group, if there are people who go outside the bounds of your normality this is certainly a place to find it. And to address your implication, I suppose on some level I dislike humans, but not all of them, just most.
Perhaps if I exposed myself to more opportunities of allowing advertising to be rammed down my throat there might be some vulnerability but I try not to take those chances. When the radio doesn't sound like I want it gets turned off, I surf with ad-block plus or privoxy (or both) of course, and I never watch live TV on a station which uses commercials (or on the extreme time I do then I channel surf during them). I suppose you can continue to contend that I'm responding by some other means of advertising because even the cereal box itself is advertising in a way. And there are even the stealth product endorsements seen by the product placement in TV shows and movies. Product exposure is pervasive and goes as far as simply being around people who are using them.
The blanket statement that it works on everyone is just too simple minded to be true. Perhaps it takes an active effort to reject it, but I think if you can consciously analyze what is trying to be done through marketing then you stand a far greater chance at being able to make independent decisions. I'll admit many are probably tricked into it without realizing, but for someone who is actively looking for it (or even ignoring it intentionally) the effect must be greatly diminished if not eliminated.
It may take a lot of thinking, but mass marketing is not an inevitable success. It might work on most people, but there's no way this blanket statement can be made about everyone unless your sample size really is everyone. Even a single person fitting outside of your "scientific facts" means they are wrong.
Radio's strength is that DJs can repeatedly play crappy songs until you think you like them. Repetition, repetition, repetition.
Yeah... Um... OK. Maybe it works like that for you but I just turn the station off and plug in my iPod or play a CD. Hearing the same crap repeatedly does not in any way increase my appreciation of any song.
The first time I hear a song, I can usually tell if I like it or not, it's not much of an acquired taste and hearing it again usually changes nothing. Even songs I really like can get worn out through repetition to the point I'd rather put it at the back of the shelf for a while. If anything playing it more makes it worse not better.
And then vendors pay Microsoft [wikipedia.org] to have their drivers tested.
Which unfortunately is a complete waste of money for the vendor because WHQL testing is absolutely completely demonstrably worthless. Whatever they do test (if anything) seems to have missed several key features related to stability. I've seen way more BSOD's using "WHQL" tested drivers than NVidia's BETA drivers. Sometimes after installing the BETA driver I never see another BSOD until the next WHQL release. As things are going now, I wait for the BETA driver because for whatever screwed up reason that is the one that's stable. The WHQL drivers have been absolute garbage as far as my experience goes, and as far as I'm concerned is a warning to avoid the driver at all costs when it comes to NVidia. YMMV, I'm using these on an 8800 with XP and a couple 280's with Vista.
I know! Heck if they'd have kept up the relationship we might have even gotten [Crystal Chronicles] games for the Gamecube or maybe even the Wii
OK, technically yes there is a game that has the name "Final Fantasy" in the title, but those games hardly hold a candle compared to a real numbered title. The last Final Fantasy that most people care to acknowledge on Nintendo hardware would be VI. Even the newer Tactics seemed like toned down cheap imitation when compared to the original. Obviously Square/Enix does see some potential market on those systems, but not enough to put real effort into it. The expected low profits must be on par with the development budgets they assign.
If you think EA is bad you ought to take a look at what Activision has been doing to the still warm corpse of Blizzard.
I guess this is somehow referring to WoW? I'm still looking forward to Starcraft II despite the lack of a LAN option it's still on my must buy on release list. And assuming that isn't screwed up too badly then Diablo III after it. I'll admit WoW has been a huge disappointment in their previously untarnished lineup, but I'm willing it overlook it if they still have what it takes.
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For use on OS-X, probably using glimmerblocker. Nice for those using multiple browsers since it runs as proxy. Also never becomes incompatible between Safari versions (add-on experience in Safari has been less than ideal during transitions).
Perhaps for some that is possible, although clearly Microsoft has no process in place to do something in that amount of time. With analysis, design, implementation, unit testing, code reviews, and whatever else their software cycle involves, I don't think they have a chance at having anything at all releasable in 5 days. So this expectation is a known impossibility, and likely known to some degree by those responsible for releasing the information.
And I don't fault them for actually following their own process and not rushing things out. Sure, they might be able to throw together some half-assed fix in a fraction of the time, but what will the consequences be? Instability? Data loss? An entirely new security hole as bad as the original? It's entirely possible the damage done through hasty work could even be worse than the exploit itself. Just "closing the hole" might mean leaving the OS inoperable (in broad generic terms, not whatever this story is referencing). Sure, maybe their process could be stream-lined, and improved upon, but 5 days can easily be chewed through especially in "big" software projects.
Damn near anyway. Assuming that blackrain or whatever is already downloaded, it is probably closer to like 20 seconds or something after docking, but it is very quick.
Perhaps by purchasing more than 1 of some models? I don't think anything hinted at only buying 1 of each.
Yeah! That'll stop it obviously, especially since it is text only anyway.
I suppose the scope of your comment extends all the way to identifying and filtering out the encoded chunks.
Maybe, although there are a few nice things about TPB. For one the VIP / Trusted system was at times useful, especially when looking for release day type content. Also, the comments posted on TPB were useful at times, although some other sites include comment systems as well. TPB also has one of the least cluttered no-nonsense layouts (with ad-block of course), where some of the other sites are so cluttered it gets confusing as to where the actual links even are. So I still prefer it to just straight google, but like you said, it won't actually stop anything either way, it's just a preference thing.
I suppose it's possible, but I have a hard time believing this personally. Maybe not everyone is like this, but regardless of what mental state I'm in, I always am very careful about checking what exactly is in my pockets frequently. Even small weight differences will set off internal alarms when items which ought to be in the pockets are not there. I suppose I'm just OCD about it, but I will not leave a location without double checking that all items on my person are where they belong.
Seems faster? In my experience it has been more than "seems", Chrome actually is faster. The thing keeping me on Firefox is the various add-ons which I cannot get in Chrome. If Chrome were to get vertical tabs, that would go a long way towards making a switch.
It would be nice if Firefox did improve performance though. Would be a lot more significant than a trimmed down interface while the program runs just as slow.
You are missing the virus scanner double scanning every block, once as it comes through the pipe, and again as it writes to disk.
And for those unfortunate users running McAfee, that's probably a core worth of work.
Here is the difference between what Ubisoft and Blizzard are doing.
Ubisoft is putting this stupid "connected all the time" stuff in Single-Player Games. There's no Multi I know of in AC2. So it's somewhere that server connections are completely inappropriate. It's just a complete waste to include it.
Starcraft II is meant to be Multi-Player, that is what the primary focus has always been, its what the Beta is testing (exclusively, no campaign testing in the Beta). Sure there is going to be a campaign, and you might even play through it more than once, but the many hours most people are going to burn on this is going to be Multi.
So I for one will be buying the game, because just about the only thing I care about at all IS Multi-Player and I don't have people local to play on a LAN either. The game could come with absolutely no single player features at all and I would still be buying it. If the game did not come with Multi-Player I would need to seriously reconsider if it was worth buying. The "must be connected to battle.net" thing is redundant to me, I'm going to be there anyway.
That it was in Australia?
Agree strongly. After enjoying ZP I started looking around at some of the other batches of videos and most of them are entirely pathetic in comparison. If the first video I saw on the site was not ZP I probably would have never come back.
You do realize that words like "theft" and "stealing" have well defined meanings? The definition of the word is not subject to your opinion. You can call it whatever you want, but that doesn't make it true. It is what it is.
Perhaps you have underestimated how awesomely large my map is.
Yeah, exactly what I thought. In fact, is there anything preventing simply copying the theme files from the prior release? I suppose it would be more difficult if the format of the theme files changed, but probably still wouldn't require any code changes either way.
What does that mean exactly? Oh right, the Debian-approved one should have guessable private keys.
I have heard of people actually getting it, and even claiming that it works for them. However in my experience, even getting the advertisement for FIOS in the mailbox does not have any connection to FIOS actually arriving in the neighborhood. I called them up, explained that since they were advertising in the area it would make sense to have the service on the way, and was told nothing was being done to bring it to my area. Verizon offered me DSL.
Well, how about changing it to UQM for Star Control 2 (The Ur-Quan Masters). Isn't that what the open source port uses?
It's really too bad there has not been any real successor to Star Control 2 though, great game, and the dialogue is absolutely hilarious. I still use quotes from that game.
Brood War also didn't use a CD-Key, so if you had the means to emulate the disc the expansion was playable on battle.net.
Of course now this is a complete non-issue because Blizzard now offers a complete Starcraft with BroodWar installer from battle.net "2.0" (is that what it is?) after the user attaches their Starcraft CD key to the new account. The games also no longer require the disc to be in the drive assuming the correct MPQ's are copied over as well. So basically now an original Starcraft key is all that is required.
Infinity Ward has actually perfected that technology. MW2 doesn't just randomly pick and hope for the worst connection like most games, it consistently picks the worst connection every time.
Really? So turning the radio off is not responding well? Who would have thought...
Maybe you have a point, but on a personal level I just don't accept that everyone is vulnerable to this crap we are exposed to, especially if an active effort is made to reduce exposure to a minimum. Especially in this group, if there are people who go outside the bounds of your normality this is certainly a place to find it. And to address your implication, I suppose on some level I dislike humans, but not all of them, just most.
Perhaps if I exposed myself to more opportunities of allowing advertising to be rammed down my throat there might be some vulnerability but I try not to take those chances. When the radio doesn't sound like I want it gets turned off, I surf with ad-block plus or privoxy (or both) of course, and I never watch live TV on a station which uses commercials (or on the extreme time I do then I channel surf during them). I suppose you can continue to contend that I'm responding by some other means of advertising because even the cereal box itself is advertising in a way. And there are even the stealth product endorsements seen by the product placement in TV shows and movies. Product exposure is pervasive and goes as far as simply being around people who are using them.
The blanket statement that it works on everyone is just too simple minded to be true. Perhaps it takes an active effort to reject it, but I think if you can consciously analyze what is trying to be done through marketing then you stand a far greater chance at being able to make independent decisions. I'll admit many are probably tricked into it without realizing, but for someone who is actively looking for it (or even ignoring it intentionally) the effect must be greatly diminished if not eliminated.
It may take a lot of thinking, but mass marketing is not an inevitable success. It might work on most people, but there's no way this blanket statement can be made about everyone unless your sample size really is everyone. Even a single person fitting outside of your "scientific facts" means they are wrong.
Yeah... Um... OK. Maybe it works like that for you but I just turn the station off and plug in my iPod or play a CD. Hearing the same crap repeatedly does not in any way increase my appreciation of any song.
The first time I hear a song, I can usually tell if I like it or not, it's not much of an acquired taste and hearing it again usually changes nothing. Even songs I really like can get worn out through repetition to the point I'd rather put it at the back of the shelf for a while. If anything playing it more makes it worse not better.
Which unfortunately is a complete waste of money for the vendor because WHQL testing is absolutely completely demonstrably worthless. Whatever they do test (if anything) seems to have missed several key features related to stability. I've seen way more BSOD's using "WHQL" tested drivers than NVidia's BETA drivers. Sometimes after installing the BETA driver I never see another BSOD until the next WHQL release. As things are going now, I wait for the BETA driver because for whatever screwed up reason that is the one that's stable. The WHQL drivers have been absolute garbage as far as my experience goes, and as far as I'm concerned is a warning to avoid the driver at all costs when it comes to NVidia. YMMV, I'm using these on an 8800 with XP and a couple 280's with Vista.
OK, technically yes there is a game that has the name "Final Fantasy" in the title, but those games hardly hold a candle compared to a real numbered title. The last Final Fantasy that most people care to acknowledge on Nintendo hardware would be VI. Even the newer Tactics seemed like toned down cheap imitation when compared to the original. Obviously Square/Enix does see some potential market on those systems, but not enough to put real effort into it. The expected low profits must be on par with the development budgets they assign.
I guess this is somehow referring to WoW? I'm still looking forward to Starcraft II despite the lack of a LAN option it's still on my must buy on release list. And assuming that isn't screwed up too badly then Diablo III after it. I'll admit WoW has been a huge disappointment in their previously untarnished lineup, but I'm willing it overlook it if they still have what it takes.