I'd guess there is a large correlation between the people that like "hyper-violent" games and those that like fancy graphics, the Wii is not a platform they are likely to own. If you release games with mature content, that is needed for the atmosphere and not just for the sake of making a "hyper-violent" game, you run into other problems on the wii, but it sounds like the article is going on about a bunch of games that were mature for the sake of being mature. The only thing that surprised me is that a resident evil game is listen in those that didn't do well, I played one of them on a Wii and it seamed to be done fairly well, it was bloody but not unnecessarily so.
They have a different release cycle though, usually a few months after ubuntu after all the bugs have been ironed out. I mean ubuntu is essentially debian with a different cycle and it shows.
But why don't the Linux distros go to same lenghts?
Some do, some don't, you don't here about these problems RHEL or debian, hell even mint is pretty good on release, but if you choose ubuntu (or too a lesser extent fedora) then this is what you get
The fact that you can't look has only got to do with your choice to value freedom over functionality.
TBF even under windows i would never touch iTunes, I program value design over functionality, freedom is just a bonus.
You are right that there are many flash-game alikes, but there's also hundreds of *really* high quality games out there.
That sounds exactly like flash games.
some of the most innovative games in many years, simply because it's got some relatively "weird" control systems.
I would guess that these games fall under the hundreds of good ones, because based on homebrew for the wii it's safe to say that just making use of cool control systems isn't enough to make a good game.
All you have done is confirm my assumptions in an argumentative fashion
1) In a bilingual conversation, Skype support employee says "Skype will from now on be part of the open source community." 2) Blogger posts saying that Skype will be open sourced in nearest future 3) get reposted on various blogs 4) ??? 5) Verified "news" on slashdot
p.s GP said good game developers, from what i have seen on iphones most of the apps are no better than silly flash games and while there are good game developers using flash, the majority of flash games are mass produced crap, and going on what I've seen (i.e without having owned an iPhone/iTunes (so i may be wrong)) i'd assume the same is true of iphone games. If there is any truth to this assumption then counting anything on the iPhone by app releases is retarded.
Well, Foundation didn't even start out as books but was a series of short stories in a science fiction magazine.
So was i robot, I really hope the new book follows the same style as that is what i love most about Asimov (and why the first 2 foundation books are so great)
What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.
[1] The more bullshit they put out under I robot, the less and less he is remembered for being a brilliant all round writer.
That argument is pretty weak, is it better to remove all trafic lights so people don't assume it's safe to cross a junction?
ICANN has fucked up gTLDs and everything they do seams to make it worse, now im not saying they should go around taking domains back, but if they made sure decent rules were in place then a domain name might actually mean something.
Far too much software makes the assumption that TLDs only contain [a-z0-9-], so if you want to go changing that there needs to be a damn good reason, there is not. There are ~1369 2 letter TLDS to be shared between ~200 soverin states and 49284 3 letter generic ones to be split between uses (.xxx.nws.org.edu, etc), there doesn't seam to be any good reason to expand that and make lots of software more complex.
When stuff has come down in price over time because of improved manufacturing et al, it will usually have a fairly good quality (see cheap ATA drives), when it starts cheap it will have a high failure rate because not enough was invested in manufacture/design/testing.
tl;dr Cheap new stuff, last less time than Cheap old stuff, news at 11
I don't think you know what you're talking about and neither do the mods.
True, but short of somebody in the pharmaceutical industry correcting me, I think I can make some fairly informed guesses based of my knowledge of organic chemistry.
Not to mention that reverse engineering most drugs is a trivial act.
Of the drug yes, of the production process NO.
In the USA, if a generic pill is shown to be identical in function to the original, the generic pill can use the original's drug trials as proof of efficacy.
Drugs are rarely 100% pure, so it is unlikely that the generic pill will be identical to the original. I figured that the this would mean the new drug will need new testing & approval, to show that it's impurities are not harmful.
For bonus points, it could note changes made to the filesystem and when possible allow you to merge these changes (the sort of thing lvm snapshoting/cow allows). Also instead of just --enable-fake-internet prompting users and logging data that is exchanged (possibly doing the same for reading files).
yeah its not like FTC know anything about trade! (did you even read their argument.)
Do you have any idea how long it takes to get drugs approved for use by the public? drugs (like software) can't simply be copied and resold, if you develop a new drug you have a good 3/4 years of no competition while a competitor gets reverse engineers it and gets approval for his version, after that you have the fact that your drugs are tried and tested and you've been producing it for 3/4 years. Patents are useful in many sectors, but medicine is even less one of them than software (especially when you consider the human cost).
IF the drug approval process was faster AND it was easy to reverse engineer drugs THEN patents are needed in medicine (probably 5 years), but until then the drug company's can shove the any proposal up their respective asses!
Just saying it like it is, take a look around the majority of people think we should.
5. In order to meet the BBC's obligations to rights holders, the BBC will embed downloadable BBC with digital rights management security - from here [bbc.co.uk]
meh i was wrong, but 1) The public still don't care 2) It doesn't apply to the flash version 3) I'd rather have it with DRM than not exist at all (or spend more money on content) 4) Most objection to DRM is when it restricts something you have paid to own, DRM is an acceptable evil when used properly (such as pay to rent)
It is of course reasonable to expect people to install the Adobe AIR runtime and the iPlayer AIR application.
When they launched the P2P version it was not alongside its flash based streaming. AIR is based around the flash service, you only need flash to stream (well anything that implements flash RTMP)
Actually if you watch the link (it's missing the attack on americans for liking such a stupid car which he adds later), he describes it as the worst car he's ever driven, the criticism that i care about are: It's an "off-road car" without 4x4 or an on-road care that's ridiculously big. It doesn't have any safety certification a car needs. The controls are very loose. The interior is shite (objectively speaking) "The brakes are the size of milk tops"
Uh you know that JC owns a FORD GT40, right?
I should have qualified that with recent, they like many older cars (even US made ones). I also mentioned that there are exceptions, for example some recent Chryslers sell well over here.
I mean I'd be a little bonkers to drive some of the tiny cars that are popular in Europe on an interstate
Erm we do have long interregional roads with speedlimits around the 75mph mark in Europe too, unless American roads are as bad as your cars i don't know why you would need a pickup truck/SUV to use them. Most people that do a lot of highway driver wouldn't opt for little cars, but they get around fine with coupes/sedans.
This goes down well? how about a review of you #1 car (segment on show was actually harsher but i couldn't find a link).
TBH never heard of it, but yes because it looks ugly and has stupid doors, you would have been better talking about the Saleen because despite the same stupid doors it doesn't look like it was designed by a blind ape, but the Bugatti is by far the worlds best supercar, because its a true engineering masterpiece (not just fast). Watch TG review of any american car, with a few exceptions (such as the ford transit van) we think they suck, and it's not just anti-Americanism we really do think you guys make crap cars.
I believe they also forced Greg Dike (head of the BBC when it was critical over the bullshit that was the Hutton report) out. IMO they managed this despite the rules, because one of the BBC trust board members was married to a labour MP. However one thing that is interesting is that none of the commercial stations really pushed the government on this bullshit which suggest they are just as controlled by the BBC (well C4 sort of did but ITV & five just rolled over IMO)
The public don't care, those that do don't hate the iPlayer because it has no DRM
and regional limits - even for shows that should be in the public domain
Bullshit, we paid for the content, we want BBC worldwide to make some money off you foreigners, so it can put on more quality programming without us paying for it.
we hate the fact that BBC dropped the P2P idea because they couldn't figure out how to get it to work
I quite like the fact they dropped the P2P idea because it was silly to expect people to install a program to get VOD. As a linux user I'm also glad they moved to air+flash instead of windows only+drm.
because they couldn't figure out how to get it to work
He couldn't be trolling more if he tried, especially given that the BBC's track record dirac,freeview,etc
we hate is clumsy and CPU-hungry interface
Well even a troll gets something right, the CPU-hungriness isn't great on linux. Personally i do like the interface though, its better in most parts than 4OD.
UK version was perfect length, US version should not exist, ITV reimported it and it makes me cring (and not in the good way UK version did), a few popular programs are: QI Dr who Michel and Webb look (makers of peep show) Mock the week (even without Frankie Boyle it will still be great and probably good enough to get international appeal, like the daily show) Top gear (actually we all laugh at US cars over here so that probably wouldn't go down well) Never mind the buzzcocks (well if they find a good presenter) A fair number of good documentaries (just don't watch the political ones or you'll find out we quite like "socialism")
I'm not saying i have all the answers but: Conversation checks hardware (obviously can't catch all sniffers) Shows a private prompt and asks for a password to confirm user Releases one-time key* that allows CPU to decode the keyring (that sits on the HDD/TPM/both)
I suppose if you sniffed USB+HDD/TPM you could have enough to decode the key yourself, however if you spread the keys around the drive and only unlock sections of the drive as required it the attacker will have to store a HDDs worth of data in order to get the keys. It really comes down to implementation but i think most attacks can be countered (possibly even CPU rootkits).
*A one-time key may not be feasible, but if keys are small and storage you give them big you could have tousands preloaded on the pen, so it would be years before a key can be reused (at 3 boots per day, 10k gives you a 10 year years)
To an extent yes, (seriously mods, moding funny because you disagree?), however AFAIK IEs implementation is in IE not at system level, so it cannot be applied to anything but IE & plugins. OFC this isn't to say that it can't rigorous sandboxing can't be implemented in windows, just that the tech is already in Linux, it just needs the configuration and UI to move it to the dekstop, IMO this would come if there was demand.
Slashdot Mirror
$cat /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr
65536
My Fedora 11 desktop is safe
something a bit more current (last 3 days so not stat significant):
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-eu-monthly-200911-200911-bar - FF3.5 is most popular in Europe (ie6 has half of FF3.0)
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-na-monthly-200911-200911-bar - IE7 is most popular in US (ie6 ~= safari)
overall
EU (50% v 40%)
US (60% v 30%)
I'd guess there is a large correlation between the people that like "hyper-violent" games and those that like fancy graphics, the Wii is not a platform they are likely to own. If you release games with mature content, that is needed for the atmosphere and not just for the sake of making a "hyper-violent" game, you run into other problems on the wii, but it sounds like the article is going on about a bunch of games that were mature for the sake of being mature. The only thing that surprised me is that a resident evil game is listen in those that didn't do well, I played one of them on a Wii and it seamed to be done fairly well, it was bloody but not unnecessarily so.
They have a different release cycle though, usually a few months after ubuntu after all the bugs have been ironed out. I mean ubuntu is essentially debian with a different cycle and it shows.
But why don't the Linux distros go to same lenghts?
Some do, some don't, you don't here about these problems RHEL or debian, hell even mint is pretty good on release, but if you choose ubuntu (or too a lesser extent fedora) then this is what you get
The fact that you can't look has only got to do with your choice to value freedom over functionality.
TBF even under windows i would never touch iTunes, I program value design over functionality, freedom is just a bonus.
You are right that there are many flash-game alikes, but there's also hundreds of *really* high quality games out there.
That sounds exactly like flash games.
some of the most innovative games in many years, simply because it's got some relatively "weird" control systems.
I would guess that these games fall under the hundreds of good ones, because based on homebrew for the wii it's safe to say that just making use of cool control systems isn't enough to make a good game.
All you have done is confirm my assumptions in an argumentative fashion
1) In a bilingual conversation, Skype support employee says "Skype will from now on be part of the open source community."
2) Blogger posts saying that Skype will be open sourced in nearest future
3) get reposted on various blogs
4) ???
5) Verified "news" on slashdot
I use linux you insensitive clod!
i.e i can't look at the iTunes store.
p.s GP said good game developers, from what i have seen on iphones most of the apps are no better than silly flash games and while there are good game developers using flash, the majority of flash games are mass produced crap, and going on what I've seen (i.e without having owned an iPhone/iTunes (so i may be wrong)) i'd assume the same is true of iphone games. If there is any truth to this assumption then counting anything on the iPhone by app releases is retarded.
Well, Foundation didn't even start out as books but was a series of short stories in a science fiction magazine.
So was i robot, I really hope the new book follows the same style as that is what i love most about Asimov (and why the first 2 foundation books are so great)
erm Asimov made his intent quite clear:
What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.
[1]
The more bullshit they put out under I robot, the less and less he is remembered for being a brilliant all round writer.
That argument is pretty weak, is it better to remove all trafic lights so people don't assume it's safe to cross a junction?
ICANN has fucked up gTLDs and everything they do seams to make it worse, now im not saying they should go around taking domains back, but if they made sure decent rules were in place then a domain name might actually mean something.
Far too much software makes the assumption that TLDs only contain [a-z0-9-], so if you want to go changing that there needs to be a damn good reason, there is not. There are ~1369 2 letter TLDS to be shared between ~200 soverin states and 49284 3 letter generic ones to be split between uses (.xxx .nws .org .edu, etc), there doesn't seam to be any good reason to expand that and make lots of software more complex.
When stuff has come down in price over time because of improved manufacturing et al, it will usually have a fairly good quality (see cheap ATA drives), when it starts cheap it will have a high failure rate because not enough was invested in manufacture/design/testing.
tl;dr Cheap new stuff, last less time than Cheap old stuff, news at 11
I don't think you know what you're talking about and neither do the mods.
True, but short of somebody in the pharmaceutical industry correcting me, I think I can make some fairly informed guesses based of my knowledge of organic chemistry.
Not to mention that reverse engineering most drugs is a trivial act.
Of the drug yes, of the production process NO.
In the USA, if a generic pill is shown to be identical in function to the original,
the generic pill can use the original's drug trials as proof of efficacy.
Drugs are rarely 100% pure, so it is unlikely that the generic pill will be identical to the original. I figured that the this would mean the new drug will need new testing & approval, to show that it's impurities are not harmful.
For bonus points, it could note changes made to the filesystem and when possible allow you to merge these changes (the sort of thing lvm snapshoting/cow allows). Also instead of just --enable-fake-internet prompting users and logging data that is exchanged (possibly doing the same for reading files).
yeah its not like FTC know anything about trade! (did you even read their argument.)
Do you have any idea how long it takes to get drugs approved for use by the public? drugs (like software) can't simply be copied and resold, if you develop a new drug you have a good 3/4 years of no competition while a competitor gets reverse engineers it and gets approval for his version, after that you have the fact that your drugs are tried and tested and you've been producing it for 3/4 years. Patents are useful in many sectors, but medicine is even less one of them than software (especially when you consider the human cost).
IF the drug approval process was faster AND it was easy to reverse engineer drugs THEN patents are needed in medicine (probably 5 years), but until then the drug company's can shove the any proposal up their respective asses!
Nice opinion, thank you for being such a sport.
Just saying it like it is, take a look around the majority of people think we should.
5. In order to meet the BBC's obligations to rights holders, the BBC will embed downloadable BBC with digital rights management security - from here [bbc.co.uk]
meh i was wrong, but
1) The public still don't care
2) It doesn't apply to the flash version
3) I'd rather have it with DRM than not exist at all (or spend more money on content)
4) Most objection to DRM is when it restricts something you have paid to own, DRM is an acceptable evil when used properly (such as pay to rent)
It is of course reasonable to expect people to install the Adobe AIR runtime and the iPlayer AIR application.
When they launched the P2P version it was not alongside its flash based streaming. AIR is based around the flash service, you only need flash to stream (well anything that implements flash RTMP)
Actually if you watch the link (it's missing the attack on americans for liking such a stupid car which he adds later), he describes it as the worst car he's ever driven, the criticism that i care about are:
It's an "off-road car" without 4x4 or an on-road care that's ridiculously big.
It doesn't have any safety certification a car needs.
The controls are very loose.
The interior is shite (objectively speaking)
"The brakes are the size of milk tops"
Uh you know that JC owns a FORD GT40, right?
I should have qualified that with recent, they like many older cars (even US made ones). I also mentioned that there are exceptions, for example some recent Chryslers sell well over here.
I mean I'd be a little bonkers to drive some of the tiny cars that are popular in Europe on an interstate
Erm we do have long interregional roads with speedlimits around the 75mph mark in Europe too, unless American roads are as bad as your cars i don't know why you would need a pickup truck/SUV to use them. Most people that do a lot of highway driver wouldn't opt for little cars, but they get around fine with coupes/sedans.
This goes down well? how about a review of you #1 car (segment on show was actually harsher but i couldn't find a link).
TBH never heard of it, but yes because it looks ugly and has stupid doors, you would have been better talking about the Saleen because despite the same stupid doors it doesn't look like it was designed by a blind ape, but the Bugatti is by far the worlds best supercar, because its a true engineering masterpiece (not just fast). Watch TG review of any american car, with a few exceptions (such as the ford transit van) we think they suck, and it's not just anti-Americanism we really do think you guys make crap cars.
I believe they also forced Greg Dike (head of the BBC when it was critical over the bullshit that was the Hutton report) out. IMO they managed this despite the rules, because one of the BBC trust board members was married to a labour MP. However one thing that is interesting is that none of the commercial stations really pushed the government on this bullshit which suggest they are just as controlled by the BBC (well C4 sort of did but ITV & five just rolled over IMO)
No just people from the UK.
Nobody likes it. Nobody wants it.
Obviously not true
We the public hate its DRM
The public don't care, those that do don't hate the iPlayer because it has no DRM
and regional limits - even for shows that should be in the public domain
Bullshit, we paid for the content, we want BBC worldwide to make some money off you foreigners, so it can put on more quality programming without us paying for it.
we hate the fact that BBC dropped the P2P idea because they couldn't figure out how to get it to work
I quite like the fact they dropped the P2P idea because it was silly to expect people to install a program to get VOD. As a linux user I'm also glad they moved to air+flash instead of windows only+drm.
because they couldn't figure out how to get it to work
He couldn't be trolling more if he tried, especially given that the BBC's track record dirac,freeview,etc
we hate is clumsy and CPU-hungry interface
Well even a troll gets something right, the CPU-hungriness isn't great on linux. Personally i do like the interface though, its better in most parts than 4OD.
UK version was perfect length, US version should not exist, ITV reimported it and it makes me cring (and not in the good way UK version did), a few popular programs are:
QI
Dr who
Michel and Webb look (makers of peep show)
Mock the week (even without Frankie Boyle it will still be great and probably good enough to get international appeal, like the daily show)
Top gear (actually we all laugh at US cars over here so that probably wouldn't go down well)
Never mind the buzzcocks (well if they find a good presenter)
A fair number of good documentaries (just don't watch the political ones or you'll find out we quite like "socialism")
I'm not saying i have all the answers but:
Conversation checks hardware (obviously can't catch all sniffers)
Shows a private prompt and asks for a password to confirm user
Releases one-time key* that allows CPU to decode the keyring (that sits on the HDD/TPM/both)
I suppose if you sniffed USB+HDD/TPM you could have enough to decode the key yourself, however if you spread the keys around the drive and only unlock sections of the drive as required it the attacker will have to store a HDDs worth of data in order to get the keys. It really comes down to implementation but i think most attacks can be countered (possibly even CPU rootkits).
*A one-time key may not be feasible, but if keys are small and storage you give them big you could have tousands preloaded on the pen, so it would be years before a key can be reused (at 3 boots per day, 10k gives you a 10 year years)
To an extent yes, (seriously mods, moding funny because you disagree?), however AFAIK IEs implementation is in IE not at system level, so it cannot be applied to anything but IE & plugins. OFC this isn't to say that it can't rigorous sandboxing can't be implemented in windows, just that the tech is already in Linux, it just needs the configuration and UI to move it to the dekstop, IMO this would come if there was demand.
The site is already running evil code on my computer against my permission!
(before down-voting look at the top of TFA)