USA I think is a different matter, folks there ran down their train system methodically over decades and it will take a long time to turn it round. I'm going to disagree with you there. The distance from London to Paris is around 300 miles (according to google maps). The distance from Los Angeles to San Francisco is closer to 400 miles (link), and that's two cities in the same state. Connecting large cities by rail doesn't make as much sense in this scenario as it does in Europe, where you have large numbers of people making shorter trips. As the distance increases, the difference in time between rail and air becomes large. Rail is slower than air and less flexible than car. Where the population is more dense (like New York), rail gets used more.
The rail system has been run down for a while, but it's mostly because the upkeep of rarely used lines cost more than switching to trucking. The interstate highway system and trucking have largely replaced trains for a lot of freight.
I didn't advocate anything but you coming up with a better analogy than burglary. The equations not as simple as 1 download = 1 lost sale. Ask Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart what effect online piracy has on TV (hint: it made them hits). Saturday Night Live is having a revival of popularity because of online clips. Firefly came out on DVD because of online piracy. I can't think of a single example of something failing because of online piracy, just a lot of theories and really questionable figures. I can point to several examples of online piracy being directly correlated to an increase in popularity and revenue for TV shows. Can you give me an example of a show that failed because of online piracy?
When you use an analogy that fits what's happening, I'll listen to you, but piracy on the internet is not something the physically deprives someone of their assets, it's depriving them of a potential asset that might have happened. If someone steals your car, are you going to be more or less angry than if someone stole the cap off a bottle of soda where you might have won a car? Even that example is more clear cut than internet piracy, because the cap is a physical item!
In other words, come up with an analogous analogy or fuck off.
There is just no point to it... other than copy protection. What about convenience? If your computer gets hosed, it's a lot easier to log into adobe.com than it is to reinstall the program, or if you're using a friends computer, on vacation, etc.
Could you please support that ridiculously bold statement? Add a few more TLDs to open the domain bottleneck (at least in america), complete the transition to IPv6, develop better routing, open up all the dark fiber that's currently unused, and I'm not seeing anything that won't scale except, maybe, the servers for the sites themselves, which throwing more speed at will solve. So, what's not going to scale?
The summary implied that the program itself would be ad-supported, which severely limits the amount of money that they'll get out of the product (unless they embed watermarks in the final image, but i digress). If they have a free version online and then ask people to pay a price similar to what they'd pay for the current suite, nobody will upgrade as long as the free version is functional.
[Flex] is quite capable of delivering all the features of a full blown app, and it is cross browser, cross platform out of the box. The one thing it can't deliver is native code and the speed that a fully compiled application can. I'm guessing that Flex also won't let you manage your own memory (for memory-intensive applications, this is really helpful), or make the fast calls to the operating system (since it's abstracted, it wouldn't make sense to let you make faster, operating-system-specific calls).
That's not to say that a web environment is bad, far from it, but for a large, resource-heavy and complex program (like photoshop), you either need to be able to compile into native code or cut a lot of features.
Chizen expects professional customers of products like Acrobat document-sharing or Photoshop for editing images would opt to pay for subscriptions versus facing a steady stream of advertising to use tools critical to their jobs. I'll bet they'd rather own a desktop application, but that's just me.
Surely it's possible to run an internal network (ethernet or whatever) in such a way as to make it completely inaccessible from the outside world, while running an email and web gateway? The problem is that you can get in through the web and email gateways. Any interface to the outside world has the potential to be hacked, especially when the interface is one that naturally lets things through (such as email or web sites). The hacker can now attack the server software directly or they can try and sneak something malicious through. If the email server lets a virus through, then there's plenty of ways that an attacker could control that computer and wreak havoc.
That's also not counting on social engineering or internal leaks. If your minimum wage secretary decides that this must be the new sysadmin who doesn't know where the server room is yet and they must not have their card follow me please I'll put in the security code for you and now leave you alone in the room, then we've got problems. Or claim they're servicing the copy machine, or repairing a workstation, or they know a guy. That's not even taking into account the authorized users who don't use it correctly (ie copy it to the laptop, leave it unencrypted, and then has their laptop stolen).
Any interface with the outside world is an attack vector, including humans.
That would be cool, but possibly illegal. They're going in without warrants because of a fake phone call. If they were able to get a free search of a house this time, it wouldn't be long before the cops started getting "faked" into any search they wanted.
The article makes some interesting points, but the conclusion is so prone to hyperbole as to be almost unreadable. Claiming that microsoft wouldn't make that big of a blunder is laughable considering the security that went into windows 98 just-press-escape login.
Because they tend to make their money off of trading in games, which you can't do effectively on the pc due to piracy concerns. Since they can't get trade ins for pc games, and since they don't have the scale that wal mart does, they can't sell the games for a decent price. I can't imagine buying a pc game at a console game shop simply because the prices are so high.
5.Story- Perhaps put the character into the role of a resident who didn't give in to the plasmid rush and is trying to get out. Remember those signs "Let this end! Let us Ascend!"? Now, they've gotta give into the plasmids they watched destroy rapture in order to escape...wow. that's actually not a bad idea. That is really good, but I would suggest giving them a path where they don't have to use plasmids but it's a hell of a lot harder.
It's like some bizarre take on DC comic's 'Amazons Attack!', only with slightly more porn. If either Neil Gaiman or Jeph Loeb are involved, I'm in; best comic ever!
As much as I love specs, the GP is right that fields which are required to be the same should be collapsed. If you need multiple, make multiple, but if you don't need multiple, don't make them put the field in. I'm sick and tired of everyone expecting people to follow shitty standards because they're the standard.
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The rail system has been run down for a while, but it's mostly because the upkeep of rarely used lines cost more than switching to trucking. The interstate highway system and trucking have largely replaced trains for a lot of freight.
I didn't advocate anything but you coming up with a better analogy than burglary. The equations not as simple as 1 download = 1 lost sale. Ask Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart what effect online piracy has on TV (hint: it made them hits). Saturday Night Live is having a revival of popularity because of online clips. Firefly came out on DVD because of online piracy. I can't think of a single example of something failing because of online piracy, just a lot of theories and really questionable figures. I can point to several examples of online piracy being directly correlated to an increase in popularity and revenue for TV shows. Can you give me an example of a show that failed because of online piracy?
When you use an analogy that fits what's happening, I'll listen to you, but piracy on the internet is not something the physically deprives someone of their assets, it's depriving them of a potential asset that might have happened. If someone steals your car, are you going to be more or less angry than if someone stole the cap off a bottle of soda where you might have won a car? Even that example is more clear cut than internet piracy, because the cap is a physical item!
In other words, come up with an analogous analogy or fuck off.
Yeah, if you're competitive that wouldn't be fun. Damn, if only they could incorporate both, maybe in multiple control schemes. That would be awesome.
I think the words you're looking for are "fraud", "hacking" and "denial of service", as I'm sure they'll find out in court.
Yes, but sending fraudulent messages could be against the law, which is what they're doing here.
My comcast connection (10 megabit) takes 45 minutes to download a patch.
Could you please support that ridiculously bold statement? Add a few more TLDs to open the domain bottleneck (at least in america), complete the transition to IPv6, develop better routing, open up all the dark fiber that's currently unused, and I'm not seeing anything that won't scale except, maybe, the servers for the sites themselves, which throwing more speed at will solve. So, what's not going to scale?
The summary implied that the program itself would be ad-supported, which severely limits the amount of money that they'll get out of the product (unless they embed watermarks in the final image, but i digress). If they have a free version online and then ask people to pay a price similar to what they'd pay for the current suite, nobody will upgrade as long as the free version is functional.
That's not to say that a web environment is bad, far from it, but for a large, resource-heavy and complex program (like photoshop), you either need to be able to compile into native code or cut a lot of features.
That's also not counting on social engineering or internal leaks. If your minimum wage secretary decides that this must be the new sysadmin who doesn't know where the server room is yet and they must not have their card follow me please I'll put in the security code for you and now leave you alone in the room, then we've got problems. Or claim they're servicing the copy machine, or repairing a workstation, or they know a guy. That's not even taking into account the authorized users who don't use it correctly (ie copy it to the laptop, leave it unencrypted, and then has their laptop stolen).
Any interface with the outside world is an attack vector, including humans.
That would be cool, but possibly illegal. They're going in without warrants because of a fake phone call. If they were able to get a free search of a house this time, it wouldn't be long before the cops started getting "faked" into any search they wanted.
If you think he polarized slashdot, can you imagine how dogs and their owners are in an uproar over being written about by Katz?
The article makes some interesting points, but the conclusion is so prone to hyperbole as to be almost unreadable. Claiming that microsoft wouldn't make that big of a blunder is laughable considering the security that went into windows 98 just-press-escape login.
In other news, managers of the storm botnet reportedly just put over a million more nodes up for sale.
According to one study, their activity levels will be the same either way.
Because they tend to make their money off of trading in games, which you can't do effectively on the pc due to piracy concerns. Since they can't get trade ins for pc games, and since they don't have the scale that wal mart does, they can't sell the games for a decent price. I can't imagine buying a pc game at a console game shop simply because the prices are so high.
The number of sunspots hits a minimum as the globe warms up. Denials at 11.
As much as I love specs, the GP is right that fields which are required to be the same should be collapsed. If you need multiple, make multiple, but if you don't need multiple, don't make them put the field in. I'm sick and tired of everyone expecting people to follow shitty standards because they're the standard.