Most likly they will do what they do now, they offer you the hardware for free to signup with their servies, like a cable modem or cable box.
People love to jump onto new technology when its free, how many people do you know that have the dvr cable boxes, these have only been popular for what about 18 months, maybe more, and sience you can have one for only $xx.xx dollars per month, everyone got one.
Proformance is better, traditional cable is constently sending you all the data about every show, so its a constant stream of everything. With the IPTV it only sends you the data (channel, station, website, etc) that you are currently requesting.
So the proformance is better, but at the cost of "loading" times each time you make a requst for a different channel, station, website, etc.
3 standard tv SIGNALS not channels. FTA you can access an unlimited number of shows, (because with the IPTV they only stream the station you are requesting, instead of like cable that broadcasts every single channel).
So instead of your 500+ channels its really an umlimited number, from around the world from any station that is conected to the internet, instead of just the channels your provider has choosen for you.
<a href="http://www.bigredh.com">Hotline</a> all ready does this. It allows you to run a server applciation that will onl allow people you put on your "friends" list. Then your friends have to use a client application to access the files.
I havent used it in like 5 years, but back in those days it was a really useful applicaton for swaping files with people you know and trust.
O and the link is not working right now (site is defunked).
"really if you have information that is this important, why the hell are you connecting that machine to the internet anyways. "
What I was getting at was the security he was using to protect data stored on his machine (the encryption and password), not information passed via the web.
If he is storing information on his computer that is worth some form of value he should really invest in a seperate computer stored on the local network that this information is stored on that is only accessable from his computer locally.
Yes this wouldnt be totally secure, but it would be alot more secure then just making his files accessable from applications that only focus on the local machine.
My guess is that if he needed to use an encrypted file system that their would be alot of data (source code) that would need to be encrypted/decrypted frequentlly, otherwise he could just encrypt/decrypt files as needed.
I still think that an external hard drive that (that could even be encrypted / decrypted on mounting) would be a much better idea then storing files on a local machine that could be compromised (because its accessable from the web).
What I personally do is have my important data stored on our work servers that are only accessable via vpn. Handles many situations like physical access / theft, encryption, etc. And then store important non work related files on my external hard drive that I only plug in as needed.
With most developers the software located on the machine is more important then the machine its self. If you keep work related source code on your portable computer, and its stolen, you just lost alot of money relating to software, who cares about a few hundred dollars worth of hardware in that situation.
The simple solution (for personal computers) is removeable media like a external USB harddrive. Connect it to your PC when you need to access sensitive information. Yes this dosent help if your system is all ready compromised, but if this has all ready happened chances are your fucked either way.
This also works well with portable computers, but using memory sticks. if your in a insecure area (cafe) and need to leave your laptop for a few moments, just take the stick with you.
It sounds like the author focused on securing his data only while hes not accessing it, like the encrypted data and silly long passord, but when hes all ready logged in, and the data is decrypted, your security is lossed. And the fact that most people leave their machines on (while logged in) this dosen't help in anyway.
His computer is only secured while he is logged out, and his computer is turned off, but still not physicaly secure.
Chances are if your in an enviorment that is not secure, this is your first mistake, and really if you have information that is this important, why the hell are you connecting that machine to the internet anyways.
2600 still has some good quality information coming from it.
For example, volume 21, number 2 had a great article on magstrips. The article its self really went into a lot of details relating to how the hardware works, with some really great diagrams relating to serial, and a great bit of code relating to how to read the data passed from the reader through serial.
I guess it depends on what you expect from the zine, but I think for their customer base (younger kids interested in computers) this is a great piece of information, they get into really one of the best steps for kids to learn about communicating with hardware, and the article really helps walk through the beginning steps to get people modivated to really try to expierment.
Yeah I think they were under the idea that they could threaten me to keep me from posting my opinions of their services.
Luckly I had my laywer go through the documented problems I had (about 40 emails from customers and clients whos sites I had hosted) along with what I had posted and how the situation was handled on their side and mine.
I contacted them about all this information and never heard from them again (I guess they realized my lawyer was more expensive then theirs).
Funny side note is that after the cancled my accounts they continued to try billing me, and kept sending emails to peoples sites I hosted about problems with their accounts, everyday for 3 weeks.
The problem with going public specifically to defame them could land you in court.
I had to do this about 2 months ago. My hosting provider had very bad support. I posted my feelings about them on some hosting websites and later that night had all my hosting accounts disabled and had threats of lawsuites for basically posting publicly my opinions of the company, which I guess if you don't have money to defend your self is illeagle.
What are you talking about? Yes they could charge their customers for another product, and a another servce. How do you see that IF this was made a subscription service, that people would be getting charged for something they all ready paid for?
Just because you had some random version of windows installed on your pc when you bought it dosen't mean you have a right to every other product that the company created.
This adware program is for people too stupid to know better then to go to sites that might install shit, use software that might install shit, etc etc.
Why should microsoft NOT charge for this service, just because their customer base is to stupid to know better dosen't mean they should offer it for free. Most spyware/adware is installed willingly by their customers, (129,489,494 downloads of kazaa, 84,713,621 imesh, 5,395,339 warez p2p) why is this Microsofts problem?
Why would you want a company to buy a free service, with no ad's and no costs unless you want better features.
If this was the case, I would bet money on the fact that it would have considerable changes over a small amount of time, and naturally if a company is willing to buy a free service, they expect to make that money + more off the services. And how do you think they would do that?
Nah, I just have better things to do then spell check or watch my grammer....
But then again drinking is the only thing that comes to mind.
Can't think of anyone better.
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Peter Molyneux has come up with some really great games over the years, most of which have allways been right on top of the latest technology.
Games like Populous (back in the sega days) was way ahead of its time, and even new games like fable where characters and even the game change as you progress has allways seemed like a major effect he has gone after with each game.
Does anyone know what type of copyrights Commodore might have had (or has) or what type of IP they may still own.
It sounds like the standard business practice of buy a company, scrap everything besides IP, sue sue sue.
I dont think we can really expect to see any new hardware or software (if they even do come out with an MP3 player it wont matter much, because it wont last long at all), so why else could they be buying the company.
I know a name can go along way, but the only products I can see them selling would be focused on people that would know better.
" If consumers had a clue, they would not go near it with a 10-foot pole"
You said it your self, if consumers had a clue. Do you honestly think that very many do? Because if you did you would be wrong.
Most people won't give a damn if it will not work on other hardware, as long as they can watch what they recorded on their TV, and MAYBE (a big maybe) copy them and or watch them on the PC.
Rembmer the majority dosent care about shit like this, or would even notice it, if they tried playing a dvd they made on a portable dvd player and it didnt play, they might think about it for a few seconds, and throw the dvd away thinking something was wrong.
This line was the main focus of what I was attempting at point out why the entire topic was flawed. Not trusting something, and not using something are 2 different things completlly.
Its a simple matter of if you dont care about trust in a software application, or if a trust is not important in what your doing, then trust is not a consern.
BUT if security, personal information, etc IS important, but you CHOOSE a program that you do not trust, but trust MORE then other applications, then you should not place your trust in it at all. Not trusting an application but using it anyways is foolish.
I use IE and I do have trust in it. Simply because of the security settings I have IE using, my trust I have in the websites I visit (business PC's are not used for browsing), and my own common sence, I don't download random crap from various sites, I don't randomly browse websites from search engines etc etc.
I have 1 machine that is used for random entertainment, and I have no worries about that needing to be reformatted because it has no personal information in it.
"Part of what I do is put the emphasis on how fast we respond,"
Frist upgrade in 12 years, yeah man, way to respond fast.
Maybe if the plant was upgraded 4-5 years ago when AMD first started digging into their market share, then maybe they would stand a chance.
"Being a child of the Jim Henson company may have had something to do with it"
Heh that would have alot to do with It I guess:)
I dont think its just the puppets, alot of the costumes used are also "unrealistic" meaning their not CGI enhanced.
I think personally its because so many sci-fi shows / movies are trying to push the envelop so to speak with computer generated effects and visuals, so whem people see a show thats so "basic" compared to what has been coming out (starwars, star trek as example), people assume its not going to have a good plot, or acting, when in fact alot of times they focus on plot and acting...
Its the same with me, I didnt start watching farscape until a few months ago. I thought it just looked to cheezy to be good. And its the low qualtiy parts of the shows that kind of make it better.
Yeah the puppets dont look perfect, and they could have made it more realistic with CGI, but the puppets really give it a sci-fi feel to it.
One thing that allways bothered me was did they go with the puppets because of their budget, or because they wanted to go with a more traditional style with the series.
What I was trying to focus on is the office's of 15+/- people that all work in a Microsoft shop where everything is just office related work. You don't have cad workers or designers, you have your sales people, marketing people and the standard people you have in a normal office environment.
The place I work at is really diverse, with programmers all over the world, and like 4 different offices, and we really have no setup for what you can or can not use.
If someone wanted to use a different application that could communicate with our exchange server (something that was just added 2 months ago here) I don't think anyone would mind, but people are expected to use it, how they use it, no one cares. If you don't like outlook, but your chosen application won't work correctly in our environment, to bad, you're stuck with outlook.
In most of the office environments I have worked in, it would be your standard office, and 1, maybe 2 techies that did everything (I only work for small companies, personal preference). If someone wanted to run a Linux box or a Mac, they were allowed too, but they got no support for it from us. And if it caused problems, we made the computers go away. Everyone was required to have a windows machine networked with the rest, but they had the option to use their own equipment/software for their own needs.
I totally agree with you that cross platform applications are a great idea. The idea that the OS you run is not a boundary that needs to be worried about is really useful. And maybe in the future if Linux becomes a more useful office environment tool that is used (same with Mac's) then software that needs to cross the boundaries of OS will be needed. But for the majority of small to medium offices, the need isn't there.
Because alot of people will break simple laws, or dont read/follow licenses, but alot of people will not stray away from their ethics.
I have allways thought about my "ethics" as my own personal rule set.
An example would be that I pirate software for personal use, or to play with But when it comes to making money with someones software (mainly work related) I will buy a license to use. I will break the law, but if I make money my ethics force me to buy the software.
When I first started getting into computers, these were the types of people I had the chance to learn from.
There are too many people that are into IT now that are simply there for the paycheck. They don't care what they are working on, and its just a job.
When you are working on a project that is fun, that can take over your life 12 hours a day and 7 days a week, and you enjoy every minute of it. Then your a true techie.
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Most likly they will do what they do now, they offer you the hardware for free to signup with their servies, like a cable modem or cable box.
People love to jump onto new technology when its free, how many people do you know that have the dvr cable boxes, these have only been popular for what about 18 months, maybe more, and sience you can have one for only $xx.xx dollars per month, everyone got one.
Proformance is better, traditional cable is constently sending you all the data about every show, so its a constant stream of everything. With the IPTV it only sends you the data (channel, station, website, etc) that you are currently requesting.
So the proformance is better, but at the cost of "loading" times each time you make a requst for a different channel, station, website, etc.
3 standard tv SIGNALS not channels. FTA you can access an unlimited number of shows, (because with the IPTV they only stream the station you are requesting, instead of like cable that broadcasts every single channel).
So instead of your 500+ channels its really an umlimited number, from around the world from any station that is conected to the internet, instead of just the channels your provider has choosen for you.
<a href="http://www.bigredh.com">Hotline</a> all ready does this. It allows you to run a server applciation that will onl allow people you put on your "friends" list. Then your friends have to use a client application to access the files.
I havent used it in like 5 years, but back in those days it was a really useful applicaton for swaping files with people you know and trust.
O and the link is not working right now (site is defunked).
"really if you have information that is this important, why the hell are you connecting that machine to the internet anyways. "
What I was getting at was the security he was using to protect data stored on his machine (the encryption and password), not information passed via the web.
If he is storing information on his computer that is worth some form of value he should really invest in a seperate computer stored on the local network that this information is stored on that is only accessable from his computer locally.
Yes this wouldnt be totally secure, but it would be alot more secure then just making his files accessable from applications that only focus on the local machine.
My guess is that if he needed to use an encrypted file system that their would be alot of data (source code) that would need to be encrypted/decrypted frequentlly, otherwise he could just encrypt/decrypt files as needed.
I still think that an external hard drive that (that could even be encrypted / decrypted on mounting) would be a much better idea then storing files on a local machine that could be compromised (because its accessable from the web).
What I personally do is have my important data stored on our work servers that are only accessable via vpn. Handles many situations like physical access / theft, encryption, etc. And then store important non work related files on my external hard drive that I only plug in as needed.
With most developers the software located on the machine is more important then the machine its self. If you keep work related source code on your portable computer, and its stolen, you just lost alot of money relating to software, who cares about a few hundred dollars worth of hardware in that situation.
What the author did was serious overkill.
The simple solution (for personal computers) is removeable media like a external USB harddrive. Connect it to your PC when you need to access sensitive information. Yes this dosent help if your system is all ready compromised, but if this has all ready happened chances are your fucked either way.
This also works well with portable computers, but using memory sticks. if your in a insecure area (cafe) and need to leave your laptop for a few moments, just take the stick with you.
It sounds like the author focused on securing his data only while hes not accessing it, like the encrypted data and silly long passord, but when hes all ready logged in, and the data is decrypted, your security is lossed. And the fact that most people leave their machines on (while logged in) this dosen't help in anyway.
His computer is only secured while he is logged out, and his computer is turned off, but still not physicaly secure.
Chances are if your in an enviorment that is not secure, this is your first mistake, and really if you have information that is this important, why the hell are you connecting that machine to the internet anyways.
2600 still has some good quality information coming from it.
For example, volume 21, number 2 had a great article on magstrips. The article its self really went into a lot of details relating to how the hardware works, with some really great diagrams relating to serial, and a great bit of code relating to how to read the data passed from the reader through serial.
I guess it depends on what you expect from the zine, but I think for their customer base (younger kids interested in computers) this is a great piece of information, they get into really one of the best steps for kids to learn about communicating with hardware, and the article really helps walk through the beginning steps to get people modivated to really try to expierment.
Yeah I think they were under the idea that they could threaten me to keep me from posting my opinions of their services.
Luckly I had my laywer go through the documented problems I had (about 40 emails from customers and clients whos sites I had hosted) along with what I had posted and how the situation was handled on their side and mine.
I contacted them about all this information and never heard from them again (I guess they realized my lawyer was more expensive then theirs).
Funny side note is that after the cancled my accounts they continued to try billing me, and kept sending emails to peoples sites I hosted about problems with their accounts, everyday for 3 weeks.
The problem with going public specifically to defame them could land you in court.
I had to do this about 2 months ago. My hosting provider had very bad support. I posted my feelings about them on some hosting websites and later that night had all my hosting accounts disabled and had threats of lawsuites for basically posting publicly my opinions of the company, which I guess if you don't have money to defend your self is illeagle.
What are you talking about? Yes they could charge their customers for another product, and a another servce. How do you see that IF this was made a subscription service, that people would be getting charged for something they all ready paid for?
Just because you had some random version of windows installed on your pc when you bought it dosen't mean you have a right to every other product that the company created.
This adware program is for people too stupid to know better then to go to sites that might install shit, use software that might install shit, etc etc.
Why should microsoft NOT charge for this service, just because their customer base is to stupid to know better dosen't mean they should offer it for free. Most spyware/adware is installed willingly by their customers, (129,489,494 downloads of kazaa, 84,713,621 imesh, 5,395,339 warez p2p) why is this Microsofts problem?
Why would you want a company to buy a free service, with no ad's and no costs unless you want better features.
If this was the case, I would bet money on the fact that it would have considerable changes over a small amount of time, and naturally if a company is willing to buy a free service, they expect to make that money + more off the services. And how do you think they would do that?
Nah, I just have better things to do then spell check or watch my grammer....
But then again drinking is the only thing that comes to mind.
Peter Molyneux has come up with some really great games over the years, most of which have allways been right on top of the latest technology.
Games like Populous (back in the sega days) was way ahead of its time, and even new games like fable where characters and even the game change as you progress has allways seemed like a major effect he has gone after with each game.
Does anyone know what type of copyrights Commodore might have had (or has) or what type of IP they may still own.
It sounds like the standard business practice of buy a company, scrap everything besides IP, sue sue sue.
I dont think we can really expect to see any new hardware or software (if they even do come out with an MP3 player it wont matter much, because it wont last long at all), so why else could they be buying the company.
I know a name can go along way, but the only products I can see them selling would be focused on people that would know better.
" If consumers had a clue, they would not go near it with a 10-foot pole"
You said it your self, if consumers had a clue. Do you honestly think that very many do? Because if you did you would be wrong.
Most people won't give a damn if it will not work on other hardware, as long as they can watch what they recorded on their TV, and MAYBE (a big maybe) copy them and or watch them on the PC.
Rembmer the majority dosent care about shit like this, or would even notice it, if they tried playing a dvd they made on a portable dvd player and it didnt play, they might think about it for a few seconds, and throw the dvd away thinking something was wrong.
"If you can't trust something DONT trust it."
This line was the main focus of what I was attempting at point out why the entire topic was flawed. Not trusting something, and not using something are 2 different things completlly.
Its a simple matter of if you dont care about trust in a software application, or if a trust is not important in what your doing, then trust is not a consern.
BUT if security, personal information, etc IS important, but you CHOOSE a program that you do not trust, but trust MORE then other applications, then you should not place your trust in it at all. Not trusting an application but using it anyways is foolish.
I use IE and I do have trust in it. Simply because of the security settings I have IE using, my trust I have in the websites I visit (business PC's are not used for browsing), and my own common sence, I don't download random crap from various sites, I don't randomly browse websites from search engines etc etc.
I have 1 machine that is used for random entertainment, and I have no worries about that needing to be reformatted because it has no personal information in it.
"Part of what I do is put the emphasis on how fast we respond," Frist upgrade in 12 years, yeah man, way to respond fast. Maybe if the plant was upgraded 4-5 years ago when AMD first started digging into their market share, then maybe they would stand a chance.
"Being a child of the Jim Henson company may have had something to do with it"
:)
Heh that would have alot to do with It I guess
I dont think its just the puppets, alot of the costumes used are also "unrealistic" meaning their not CGI enhanced.
I think personally its because so many sci-fi shows / movies are trying to push the envelop so to speak with computer generated effects and visuals, so whem people see a show thats so "basic" compared to what has been coming out (starwars, star trek as example), people assume its not going to have a good plot, or acting, when in fact alot of times they focus on plot and acting...
Its the same with me, I didnt start watching farscape until a few months ago. I thought it just looked to cheezy to be good. And its the low qualtiy parts of the shows that kind of make it better. Yeah the puppets dont look perfect, and they could have made it more realistic with CGI, but the puppets really give it a sci-fi feel to it. One thing that allways bothered me was did they go with the puppets because of their budget, or because they wanted to go with a more traditional style with the series.
I totally agree with you on your post.
What I was trying to focus on is the office's of 15+/- people that all work in a Microsoft shop where everything is just office related work. You don't have cad workers or designers, you have your sales people, marketing people and the standard people you have in a normal office environment.
The place I work at is really diverse, with programmers all over the world, and like 4 different offices, and we really have no setup for what you can or can not use.
If someone wanted to use a different application that could communicate with our exchange server (something that was just added 2 months ago here) I don't think anyone would mind, but people are expected to use it, how they use it, no one cares. If you don't like outlook, but your chosen application won't work correctly in our environment, to bad, you're stuck with outlook.
In most of the office environments I have worked in, it would be your standard office, and 1, maybe 2 techies that did everything (I only work for small companies, personal preference). If someone wanted to run a Linux box or a Mac, they were allowed too, but they got no support for it from us. And if it caused problems, we made the computers go away. Everyone was required to have a windows machine networked with the rest, but they had the option to use their own equipment/software for their own needs.
I totally agree with you that cross platform applications are a great idea. The idea that the OS you run is not a boundary that needs to be worried about is really useful. And maybe in the future if Linux becomes a more useful office environment tool that is used (same with Mac's) then software that needs to cross the boundaries of OS will be needed. But for the majority of small to medium offices, the need isn't there.
Cross platform dosen't mean squat when your dealing with an office enviorment that in most cases is based on a windows deployment.
Besides for people using a different platform then windows there is the web based exchange mail for people who cant connect using outlook.
You plan to impregnate your daughter and mother?
Because alot of people will break simple laws, or dont read/follow licenses, but alot of people will not stray away from their ethics. I have allways thought about my "ethics" as my own personal rule set. An example would be that I pirate software for personal use, or to play with But when it comes to making money with someones software (mainly work related) I will buy a license to use. I will break the law, but if I make money my ethics force me to buy the software.
When I first started getting into computers, these were the types of people I had the chance to learn from. There are too many people that are into IT now that are simply there for the paycheck. They don't care what they are working on, and its just a job. When you are working on a project that is fun, that can take over your life 12 hours a day and 7 days a week, and you enjoy every minute of it. Then your a true techie.