While your opinion is welcome, your authority is through the lenses of your own experience, or perceived experience.
In my experience, as a part time guitar teacher, my students have begun asking for totally different songs since the advent of guitar hero. Where the kids wanted to learn the latest by today's "hot bands", they are now asking me how to play "Jessica", "Carry On Wayward Son", "Barracuda", "Rock and Roll all Night", you name it, if it was on guitar hero they love it. Also these songs are all over their IPods. The interesting thing is that they want to learn the old songs, not the new ones.
I predict this will sell incredibly, its the beatles. Kids will become exposed to it, pick up on it and love it. I never heard a teenager mention Kansas in the past 10 years until guitar hero. These games have a way of bringing the "old" back.
The question is, how realistic is it that anyone can really get anything useful doing this? In an office there are so many of us typing away that it would be a total jumble. If you lived in an apartment complex, its quite likely their would be enough external interference that even in the next apartment they couldnt pick anything up. That leaves my house, and a 20 meter radius puts you on my property, good luck setting up your equipment without me noticing you on my front lawn. It sounds neat but highly unlikely that it can be an actual problem.
Is this supposed to be a shot at the IE team? The one that for the entire dev cycle of version 8 have been continuously reminding us that 8 is going to be compliant?
If you are a web dev (as I am) then i can see some excitement, as not having to support buggy, antiquated browsers is a huge plus, but if ie8 is as good as they say, we won't have nearly as much to complain about.
If you are not a web dev, I don't get this excitement over a free piece of software which you can choose which to run with little to no impact on any other human being on this planet.
The only people who suffer from bad versions of IE are those of us who have to develop for it. for everyone else, run what you like, taking shots at anyone is pretty sad.
It's somewhat of a sad fact that this has been considered as fair and normal practice in the industry. Maybe because no real "safety" issues can be dragged into the mess, people who are not in the know simply do not care.
Just to make sure i'm/. approved, lets use the highly venerated auto industry. When product issues come up, auto makers must make their shortcomings public, and even issue recalls to fix said problems.
Just because my PC doesn't explode when hit from the rear, doesn't mean the shortcomings are any less valid. While of course marketing does not want anyone to know anything bad could ever happen with a Mac, it would be better for the company and its clients to have a more open dialog. Pretending there are no holes does not fill them.
If i'm reading this correctly, it is a java applet, which if you don't have the runtime installed, or turned off, you'd be ok, but for the millions of users who have no clue about java, they'd be nailed. If you didn't have java will it prompt you to get it, thus assisting the attack?
Even a javascript attack would be vicious, as the script would appear to be coming from the site itself, so if I was allowing scripts from facebook, this nasty little bugger could still get through...
Really now, what this is about (at least to some of us) is that what right does Blizzard's EULA give them to control what happens to the source code of SOMEONE ELSE'S IP. Yes, the code is used to "cheat" in a video game, but even if Blizzard has the best intentions of their customers at heart, those of us who know this country, and this industry are concerned of where it can lead. Precedent will be set and anyone will use the case to try and gag other peoples software on this premise.
Blizzard should not be able to use their copyright claim to trample others copyright. If they do, others will most definitely follow.
The problem lies beyond your issue of cheating in an online game, which on the concern-o-meter is a lot less important than a company like blizzard getting to control someone else's source code.
This sort of precedent could be very scary. Any company that can find a judge who would believe their IP is somehow infringed by other software that is or is not open source could then get control over how that code is handled? no, that cannot fly at all.
Having to listen to the 17 year old twit of a cheerleader next to me rambling on about her boyfriend and who he was or was not talking to at last weekends party would be much, MUCH more dangerous to my and her health than if she was smoking.
I'm just sayin' is all...
Random predictions of MS's demise are as old as the day is long. Free software has been the panacea since Windows 1 came about. The folks at MS must know something you don't as I'm sure they've made more money than you. Whether or not you agree with MS, they achieved their goal, make a lot of money. Whats obvious is that you want their game to be over because you disagree with it. Unfortunately no one cares what you want.
Wish I had some mod points. Well said!
I still can't see why flash and silverlight are so horrible anyway. Both have relatively low barriers of entry, are "mostly" browser independent, and do the job. Neither of which are incredibly bloated, and in flash's case, its use keeps us from having to download 101 proprietary movie viewers for youtube and its ilk.
I even support silverlight as I never like having only one option to achieve something. I also can't see how these these technologies are subverting anything.
Then why do both 16-bit Super NES games and 64-bit N64 games run on the same Wii console? not sure if that was an attempt at humor or not, but, the difference is exactly where all the discussion lies. Wine along with compatibility mode are not emulators, they are compatibility layers. The Wii uses an emulator to allow you to run older games. Much like you can get nesticle to run NES games on your windows machine.
Then TFA doens't show a method to magically guess was is being said over a crypted channel only by looking at the bitrates, it only says that it finds some predetermined pattern in a given set of samples to test against. The whole thing would only be able to answer to some very simple questions like "did the words XYZ appear in the conversation ? or did ABC appear in the conversation ?" - with a rather bad success rate if those words are long and complex enough - which hardly makes it enough to obtain personal information or otherwise efficiently spy on someone. ahh, but that can be enough for overzealous evesdroppers to come a knocking. Lets say the words and phrases "Commies" "Americans" and "Kill-em-all" were found in a convo. Depending on which side you are on, and who you are directing it at, you could be either extremely patriotic, or a "terrorist", care to guess which way our overlords will assume?
Heh. No, dearie. That was my satire at people who treat it as some kind of fucked-up religion. The moment you go some variant of "OMG, you're not worthy to question The Great Scientists", you're not about science any more.
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Which is not quite as lame as being the third person to make this joke.
While your opinion is welcome, your authority is through the lenses of your own experience, or perceived experience. In my experience, as a part time guitar teacher, my students have begun asking for totally different songs since the advent of guitar hero. Where the kids wanted to learn the latest by today's "hot bands", they are now asking me how to play "Jessica", "Carry On Wayward Son", "Barracuda", "Rock and Roll all Night", you name it, if it was on guitar hero they love it. Also these songs are all over their IPods. The interesting thing is that they want to learn the old songs, not the new ones. I predict this will sell incredibly, its the beatles. Kids will become exposed to it, pick up on it and love it. I never heard a teenager mention Kansas in the past 10 years until guitar hero. These games have a way of bringing the "old" back.
The question is, how realistic is it that anyone can really get anything useful doing this? In an office there are so many of us typing away that it would be a total jumble. If you lived in an apartment complex, its quite likely their would be enough external interference that even in the next apartment they couldnt pick anything up. That leaves my house, and a 20 meter radius puts you on my property, good luck setting up your equipment without me noticing you on my front lawn. It sounds neat but highly unlikely that it can be an actual problem.
But at least they will know that last tuesday I had tacos for dinner. Which explains why I spent most of my flight on Wednesday in the head.
and not all white men are rich or powerful.
Thanks for rubbing it in =/
Is this supposed to be a shot at the IE team? The one that for the entire dev cycle of version 8 have been continuously reminding us that 8 is going to be compliant?
If you are a web dev (as I am) then i can see some excitement, as not having to support buggy, antiquated browsers is a huge plus, but if ie8 is as good as they say, we won't have nearly as much to complain about.
If you are not a web dev, I don't get this excitement over a free piece of software which you can choose which to run with little to no impact on any other human being on this planet.
The only people who suffer from bad versions of IE are those of us who have to develop for it. for everyone else, run what you like, taking shots at anyone is pretty sad.
Unless its google, when we're really not sure which is which. Remind me gmail is in it's what year as a beta?
It also doesn't mean spinning the roulette wheel of blame to choose who to pin the infringement on is OK either.
It's somewhat of a sad fact that this has been considered as fair and normal practice in the industry. Maybe because no real "safety" issues can be dragged into the mess, people who are not in the know simply do not care.
/. approved, lets use the highly venerated auto industry. When product issues come up, auto makers must make their shortcomings public, and even issue recalls to fix said problems.
Just to make sure i'm
Just because my PC doesn't explode when hit from the rear, doesn't mean the shortcomings are any less valid. While of course marketing does not want anyone to know anything bad could ever happen with a Mac, it would be better for the company and its clients to have a more open dialog. Pretending there are no holes does not fill them.
If i'm reading this correctly, it is a java applet, which if you don't have the runtime installed, or turned off, you'd be ok, but for the millions of users who have no clue about java, they'd be nailed. If you didn't have java will it prompt you to get it, thus assisting the attack? Even a javascript attack would be vicious, as the script would appear to be coming from the site itself, so if I was allowing scripts from facebook, this nasty little bugger could still get through...
As if tub girl wasn't insidious enough... Now she's going to steal my accounts?
Really now, what this is about (at least to some of us) is that what right does Blizzard's EULA give them to control what happens to the source code of SOMEONE ELSE'S IP. Yes, the code is used to "cheat" in a video game, but even if Blizzard has the best intentions of their customers at heart, those of us who know this country, and this industry are concerned of where it can lead. Precedent will be set and anyone will use the case to try and gag other peoples software on this premise. Blizzard should not be able to use their copyright claim to trample others copyright. If they do, others will most definitely follow.
The problem lies beyond your issue of cheating in an online game, which on the concern-o-meter is a lot less important than a company like blizzard getting to control someone else's source code. This sort of precedent could be very scary. Any company that can find a judge who would believe their IP is somehow infringed by other software that is or is not open source could then get control over how that code is handled? no, that cannot fly at all.
Having to listen to the 17 year old twit of a cheerleader next to me rambling on about her boyfriend and who he was or was not talking to at last weekends party would be much, MUCH more dangerous to my and her health than if she was smoking. I'm just sayin' is all...
Oh yeah, what we all want to watch is Sergey washing his Bentley in his bikini.
Interesting thought, how does the weather channel people plan to out government a government agency?
You know because of the fact I'm receiving less service than before? No? Oh, yeah I forgot these are ISP's we're talking about.
Random predictions of MS's demise are as old as the day is long. Free software has been the panacea since Windows 1 came about. The folks at MS must know something you don't as I'm sure they've made more money than you. Whether or not you agree with MS, they achieved their goal, make a lot of money. Whats obvious is that you want their game to be over because you disagree with it. Unfortunately no one cares what you want.
Wish I had some mod points. Well said! I still can't see why flash and silverlight are so horrible anyway. Both have relatively low barriers of entry, are "mostly" browser independent, and do the job. Neither of which are incredibly bloated, and in flash's case, its use keeps us from having to download 101 proprietary movie viewers for youtube and its ilk. I even support silverlight as I never like having only one option to achieve something. I also can't see how these these technologies are subverting anything.
fire is the only way to be sure those nasty virii are dead.
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Heh. No, dearie. That was my satire at people who treat it as some kind of fucked-up religion. The moment you go some variant of "OMG, you're not worthy to question The Great Scientists", you're not about science any more.
actually, you do now. I patented it.