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I'm amazed this hasn't been exploited.

I'm not going to say it doesn't happen, discs always seemed to get lost under piles of paper and eventually wind up sitting in a drawer somewhere, only to be thrown out when that persons office is vacated.

I can't speak for Sierra as I don't know how they store their archive, but I've always found it interesting that some publishers (mostly music and movie really) use facilities such as this http://www.undergroundvaults.com/about-us/hutchinson/

Sierra only had a hand full of devs who worked in-house.

No, nonsense. Publishers keep everything, certainly the publishers I've worked for. Sierra is one of the oldies that, to my slightly out of date knowledge, still curates an archive of almost every asset for every game they've released. I'm certain the source for some of the earliest titles have been lost due to their hobbyist nature, but I've personally seen a raw list of the available archive that included games released from 1980 onward.

Valve have become a behemoth despite being one of the most lethargic and inflexible companies around. They're by far the most profitable company to employee ratio and you'd think they would be more capable of taking control of these numerous situations and dealing with them, but they just leave all these problems to fester until it damages both them and their customers. I just don't get what their problem is.

Oh god, haha! Someone picked up my original post about it on reddit and wrote an article including my original drawing.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/12/22/security-hole-skype-...

Ed: Oh my word, hundreds of phone, tech and malware blogs picked up on it all over the world. I didn't have a clue.

Last year I discovered a bug that allowed you to call someone's phone and remotely activate it's camera and mic by disconnecting the call while it was ringing - the target's device would simply call you back as if it were a dropped call.

They fixed it, but boy that was a doozy.

Take the refund and pick up a P2 from Best Buy or Target (or regional equivalent) for a fraction of the cost.

They no longer appear to be sending anything at all out.

Extremely sad. Especially when they were offered $750 million by Citizen not long ago.

I've found the watches to be a joy to use, to develop for and the community is sensational. I have no hopes it'll survive as is with Fitbit.

If you have a Pebble and are involved in any way in it's development, I strongly recommend you have a look at Gadgetbridge https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge

Spez edits comments directed at him in a toxic community that has been pretty much the root of the alt-right echo chamber for the last year.

I'm just sad he didn't delete the entire sub.

/r/golang can do what they like, but this is no reason.

Our ZX81 came in a kit, so in essence I already did (with a lot of help).

If I could start learning BASIC on a ZX81 at the age of 7, I'm pretty sure anyone can. This is the era that got me into computers, and hopefully with the Pi and similar programmable devices available that are aimed at educating kids, that time will come again.

There's even a new version of the ZX Spectrum on it's way. http://www.specnext.com/

The short of it is they lack an end user at the top to call the shots and dictate to every facet of the company what works best for him.

I like this video explaining the difference between H.264 and H.265 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRIesyNuxkg

Simplistic as it is, it touches on all the main differences. The only problem with H.265 is the higher requirements and time needed for encoding and decoding.

I'm British which I think qualifies me to say it very much was. He had a few inflections of the period, but there's no mistaking it.

I feel like there aren't many professional artists on HN, but from that point of view, Apple have been criminally negligent of the industry that made them and MS have blown their doors clean off. It's a great time for artists, maybe not so much for anyone else.

I graduated from art school and went on to do commercial illustration, design, 3D work for TV commercials, then movies and ultimately the games industry.

I'm not saying the qualification helped, but the guidance and time to shape and hone me as an artist was invaluable.

Hence "within the industry". They were ubiquitous across every single studio. I think the only other computer I saw was a Sun Microsystems server in a repro house that ran the film output.

Apple was never niche within the industry, they were the forefront of mainstream. Now they've alienated absolutely everyone and their only direction seems to be toward proprietary nickel and diming.

I started designing on a Mac II in the late 80s during the emergence of desktop publishing and over the years it became the defacto designer's tool. I have no idea what happened, but apple forgot where they came from and have completely lost touch with their creative roots. That MS have swooped in and delivered what has to be the most exciting design tool I've seen in over a decade only punctuates how bad things have become at Apple.

I can see them hemorrhaging all but their most hardcore customers in the next year.

For comparison, my 27" Wacom Cintiq cost me $2500, which is just a screen with a stylus and the Studio blows it out of the water in every measurable way.

There are far more boring things that have created immeasurable problems, around 2001/2 capacitors began leaking and rendering almost every electrical device that was fitted with useless after around a year of use. By the time the problem had been discovered, the capacitors were in widespread use all over the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

Unless you have a source that shows otherwise, I only know if it doing that if it's formatted wrongly, which is going to be a problem with most things.

Good for you, problem with that for me is I'm not a programer, I'm an artist and this is why Blender isn't used in studios.

This is the big problem with Blender. The interface lacks an artist's eye for what to prioritise and group, what to hide away in a menu with what and what to have out in the open for easy access. It's an incredible piece of software, but it has the steepest learning curve out of everything because of this. And 3D in general is the steepest learning curve of all without having to fight the gui.

ZBrush is similar at the opposite end of the spectrum, with it's own language and gui priorities, but at least it's entirely customisable.

Correct. I made a quick dump of the telemetry hosts here: https://cl.ly/hZ3q

If you have win10, you can add this to your hosts file. The optional portion of the list will block store items, the email client and even things like the Groove media player, so use it as you will.

Weren't GCHQ caught illegally spying on pretty much everyone at a similar level to the NSA?

Trustworthy guys to put in charge of something like this.

Hollywood are not in the business of offering a service, only a product. This is mostly why the two aren't compatible and why they aren't interested in developing it.

The thinking is that a product is far more profitable and has higher gains than a service which bleeds money by comparison due to it's constant maintenance costs, upkeep and customer care and that drop in profit would make their pyramid business model unsustainable.

In my eyes that makes you more responsible than those who do.