Re: It's not a console, its "the Raspberry Pi of the Living room"
Cue thousands of people reading that quote from Atari and saying to themselves that they've already got a Raspberry Pi of the living room, thank you very much.
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As well as Infrogrames' catalogue (who bought out Atari and kept the name) and those of other software houses Infrogrames bought up including Ocean. Well, it doesn't have rights to all those games today because they regularly had to sell rights to games to keep the wolves from the door.
Who'd have thought the software house which created Hostages and Alone in the Dark would turn into this blood-sucking vampire.
Sounds like FlightGear which started around the same time, only that's not shut down.
Captcha is plain denial of service. Putting the accessibility problems aside, with Chrome it lets you straight through after one try and might even let you get it wrong, with anything else you run the risk of three or four tries.
I have no idea why any business would choose to use it except for their webmonkeys not being able to do anything harder than load offsite JavaScript from Google.
It's in the EULA, and that's the Spanish League's argument for being allowed to do it.
I think they had delusions of being Google or Facebook, but unfortunately are based in the country and have to contend with the legal system instead of just ignoring it until it goes away.
I think "it's in QA" is a pretty valid reason. What do MS do now, rush it out without full testing and increase the chances of hosing computers (which admittedly is par for the course from MS these days) or get accused of allowing a month for a zero-day to be exploited?
Google's an 800lb gorilla throwing its weight around when perhaps it should be concentrating on its own problems with Android.
It seems very odd that Apple goes out of its way to disable so many things on the login screen. If you have an external display or keyboard, there's probably a reason for it... if you sit down at the computer and find the brightness is wrong then you'd probably want to adjust it before logging in... but it seems Apple know better.
Oh, and genius bars seem to have problems following step one in diagnosing screen/backlight problems.
Imagine the younger generation who won't even be able to answer the door.
Won't it be lovely when we leave the EU and companies that make money here have to pay tax here rather than licensing through tax havens
If only you had read something like this first...
"Facial groupings "are not accessible beyond the context of the device file system'" could mean the tags are not uploaded to Onedrive but the work to generate the tags could still be done on Azure somewhere.
The fact that they're speaking in legalese and the UI is confusing aren't reasons to be optimistic.
The company has also come up with a great counter-example of intuitive UI by presenting a confirmatory dialogue that makes it unclear whether you should click Accept or Decline to disable the feature.
It seems this is official confirmation if any were needed that designing an understandable useful UI is an now a lost art down at Redmond.
Instead of this dialog up being waved through in review, What should have happened was the person responsible should have been immediately strung up by the balls by Mark Russinovich from the highest lamppost outside One Microsoft Way while Redmond Chen stood next to them shouting, "and if the rest of you fuckers don't fucking learn Microsoft Windows User Experience book which was published in 2002 inside out then you're fucking next".
I don't think anything I said about Schengen and FoM contradict anything you said about the games French and Spanish police play 1km from the border. In fact I did mention more stop and search within countries.
I've never been stopped and asked for ID anywhere in the Schengen area, and I live within it. I guess I must look too inoffensive.
The Schengen area does not allow passportless (or ID-less) travel, it's borderless travel, there's a difference.
Residency cards aren't valid for travel in other EU countries, you need your own ID for identifying yourself, although residency cards help explain extended stays in the Schengen area or why you're bringing other non-EU family members with you.
But then security authentication is one of those functions whose philosophical concept is hampered by self-contradictory details of its own design. To pick a topical example, it is the right of European Union citizens to enjoy free movement between EU countries without being stopped by border controls. However, how can the border controls know whether you are an EU citizen or not unless they stop you to ask for your EU identification? So it's only by presenting your passport or ID card that you can exercise your right not to have to present your passport or ID card.
FoM is more about having the right to live and work on equal terms in other EU countries.
Schengen is the right to not be stopped by border controls. If you fly from a Schengen country to a Schengen country, you won't have to present your passport/ID card in the destination country. If you go by car, you won't get stopped at the border, you just pass the country's roadsign (if there is any) and be happy you've taken back control.
The counterpoint to FoM and Schengen is having to register your residency and having to possibly put up with more stop and search.
Silly rEU countries, if they didn't have FoM (the UK is about to get rid of it) and didn't have Schengen they could have intra-EU border controls and stop and search just like the UK... all the responsibilities, none of the rights. Who'd vote for that? Oh.
Do you really think Apple have created this beautiful object of desire to allow it to be sullied with something so base as a VESA mount and screws in the back? Of course not, you need the magnetic adaptor (dongle).
If Apple's still going in 100 years, we'll have monitors held in place by antigravity, just because.
YouTube copyright claims are broken anyway. It works something like this:
1. Bigcorp dings a video with a copyright claim.
2. Channel owner appeals and says no because four seconds of song is fair use or an audience booing doesn't fall copyright or whatever.
3. Bigcorp handles the appeal and has the final say.
Hence the likes of Nintendo (or Apple) just rampaging round YouTube taking down stuff.