I can't see a port for my video toaster, or a place to insert the lightwave floppies, so it's definitely not as good as the A500 imho. It's almost as though they took the A600, and then removed the last remaining keys. It was hard enough using Deluxe Paint on a computer without the keypad, but it will be completely impossible with no keys at all. I can't see it catching on. I think the smart money will be on Atari this time around.
Interesting point of view, although I very much feel your suggested form of dirty protest, is somewhat less effective when carried out online. It may well be a form of civil disobedience, but I fear the lack of smellivision capabilities on most computers render it a fairly impotent form of campaigning.....
You mean you didn't find the video informative? I just learned a new definition of the word 'sustainable': to use up every available resource in 45 seconds, instead of the usual 20.
Win98SE? Righted the ship? Wut? Windows 2000 righted the ship, by being the first games-playing-OS from MS that didn't completely suck. Windows ME existed for one simple reason: to punish anyone who bought a computer from PC-world.
Where have you been for the last 5 weeks? Didn't you get the tweet? The term "NP-hard" has been superseded by "NP-cloud-based-social-media-hipster". Keep up!
The Pi is basically an iPad 1 with HDMI instead of the touchscreen, is much powerful than an 8bit arduino, and both are similarly priced. The Pi is basically a nice platform for children to start learning how to program, and for adults who like playing with awesome toys. The arduino is much more geared towards hardware/electronics projects rather than software development. The two platforms don't really compete with each other, but they do compliment each other rather well.... I suspect most people would own both.
Yes. I saw a documentary on the history channel about this. According to the program, the best protection is to get two sticks of Hazel, and use them to douse for ley lines near your house. Any device within 50 meters of a ley line should be protected using a conical cosmic ray deflector, which should be gently placed on top of the gadget, with the tip pointing skyward (don't point it at the ground, you'll just wake up the sleeping aliens!). Be warned that this won't fully protect your touchscreen devices though. There's something odd about capacitive devices, which will require your pet cat to be earthed at all times before they are fully protected. Those cuddly critters are serious conductors of cosmic rays. I've also gone to the extent of hanging some garlic on my front door too. Not sure what that does, but I figured it couldn't hurt....
Ex-Lecturer here! There are two aspects to every university. On one hand you have the academics. On the other you have the financial and admin side. Most academics care a great deal for their students! They may appear a bit aloof, they may appear to be thinking about other things, they may appear somewhat dis-interested in students, but if you understand what happens behind closed doors, you'd understand why. Most meetings between academics and admin depts go like this:
Admin: We're doubling the intake of students next year, and we think you can do that with 25% less staff.
Academic: We can't double intake, reduce teaching, and still maintain the quality.
Admin: Sure you can, let me show you an excel spreadsheet.....
Academics: Those sums are complete nonsense, it's simply not possible, here's the proof.
Admin: Then let's take away your classrooms and computing equipment, and you can do all your lectures via skype.
Academics: That's not going to happen.
Admin: It is happening. Deal with it.
Academics: Then we'll find our own funding....
12 months later:
Admin: You've got the largest amount of funding in the university, we're going to distribute that out to other courses.
Academics: You can't. We're 100% funded by companies. You simply cannot take that money from us, the sponsors will not agree to it.
Admin: Tough. We need to even up the distribution of funds. By the way, cut teaching staff by 25%.
Sponsor: You've used the funding for things it was not intended, we're withdrawing all future funding
Academic: We're f*****d
Admin: No you aren't, simply go out and find more sponsors for the course. You did it last year, it should be easy to do again right?
Academic: I quit.
At least, that's why I no longer lecture anyway. It's a thankless task. You're constantly screwed over by admins trying to make a quick buck here and there. Your teaching suffers as a result, and the students end up thinking you're a lazy miserable so and so. If you concentrate entirely on teaching, your students get royally shafted. I've never met an academic who didn't have his/her students as their first priority. Most of what goes on behind the scenes is rarely, if ever, seen by the students..... so students often get the wrong idea about their lecturers.
I was thinking along the same lines, although I think the z80 might be a more fitting choice.... It would be like the errant step-child coming home to roost;)
Squeeze in the uint8 AVX instructions, add some internal ram, keep it within the original 80 pin package, and I'd finally be able to pimp my 48k speccy to a whole new level of awesome!!
I'll add one to that list. Start browsing forums where users are likely to be seeking help for your product. If you spot something along the lines of:
Forum user: Help! How do I do X with product Y.
You: Contact out support department, and we'll be happy to help.
Forum user: FFS! I wouldn't be contacting support if I had a valid license!
Forum moderator: Forum user suspended for requesting help with pirated software.
Other forum users: Lol! What a dick!
About 75% of the time, people on those sorts of forums, tend to have links to their portfolios and CV's, often with information about their youtube/flickr accounts. I wouldn't bother trying to prosecute them though. Public humiliation is enough of a punishment imho;)
I use autodesk software. It does not use a dongle, but it does have a rather draconian license server. Once upon a time, they had learning editions with watermarks, and now they just have 30 day trials. Trust me, a dongle is far less hassle than autodesk's license server & license keys.... especially if you need to get a range of their software served from the same machine.
The crack will be up on pirate bay (etc etc) by the end of the week.
I was crunching on an all-nighter once, just putting the finishing touches to a product prior to it's version 2.0 release. Whilst building the installer, I thought I'd browse the web to see if the first version had been cracked yet. Rather interestingly, I came across a download link for version 2.0 of the software, as well as a number of torrents for it. Most of those were only available if you bought some premium rate download service membership or some crap like that. I think that a small fee for a download service is a damned good deal if you ask me. Announce a release date, download the installer from bit torrent, and then ship it! Everyone's happy!:)
I'm not a massive fan of agile, but in this case re-prioritizing tickets once a year is simply not often enough. Priorities change on a weekly basis. Your process should reflect that.
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Gulliver? 'A clockwork orange' is not a documentary.
You can get a 2TB drive for about $15 more than the cost of a 1TB drive.
That upgrade costs about 12 thousand pounds on the apple store.
So... Amiga. Is it good or is it whack?
I can't see a port for my video toaster, or a place to insert the lightwave floppies, so it's definitely not as good as the A500 imho. It's almost as though they took the A600, and then removed the last remaining keys. It was hard enough using Deluxe Paint on a computer without the keypad, but it will be completely impossible with no keys at all. I can't see it catching on. I think the smart money will be on Atari this time around.
Interesting point of view, although I very much feel your suggested form of dirty protest, is somewhat less effective when carried out online. It may well be a form of civil disobedience, but I fear the lack of smellivision capabilities on most computers render it a fairly impotent form of campaigning.....
You mean you didn't find the video informative? I just learned a new definition of the word 'sustainable': to use up every available resource in 45 seconds, instead of the usual 20.
Win98SE? Righted the ship? Wut? Windows 2000 righted the ship, by being the first games-playing-OS from MS that didn't completely suck. Windows ME existed for one simple reason: to punish anyone who bought a computer from PC-world.
Reposting pics dinfinity posted above.... http://www.vg.no/bildespesial/spesial.php?id=8728
Where have you been for the last 5 weeks? Didn't you get the tweet? The term "NP-hard" has been superseded by "NP-cloud-based-social-media-hipster". Keep up!
The Pi is basically an iPad 1 with HDMI instead of the touchscreen, is much powerful than an 8bit arduino, and both are similarly priced. The Pi is basically a nice platform for children to start learning how to program, and for adults who like playing with awesome toys. The arduino is much more geared towards hardware/electronics projects rather than software development. The two platforms don't really compete with each other, but they do compliment each other rather well.... I suspect most people would own both.
....and malware developers.
And lasers! (Head mounted preferably)
Yes. I saw a documentary on the history channel about this. According to the program, the best protection is to get two sticks of Hazel, and use them to douse for ley lines near your house. Any device within 50 meters of a ley line should be protected using a conical cosmic ray deflector, which should be gently placed on top of the gadget, with the tip pointing skyward (don't point it at the ground, you'll just wake up the sleeping aliens!). Be warned that this won't fully protect your touchscreen devices though. There's something odd about capacitive devices, which will require your pet cat to be earthed at all times before they are fully protected. Those cuddly critters are serious conductors of cosmic rays. I've also gone to the extent of hanging some garlic on my front door too. Not sure what that does, but I figured it couldn't hurt....
Unless you've got an immobiliser installed.
Like how to brush the problem under the carpet for another 4 years?
The London rioters were U2 fans.
If you're involved with something illegal, an alternative (and better) method to hiding the data, is to not store it in the first place.
Ex-Lecturer here! There are two aspects to every university. On one hand you have the academics. On the other you have the financial and admin side. Most academics care a great deal for their students! They may appear a bit aloof, they may appear to be thinking about other things, they may appear somewhat dis-interested in students, but if you understand what happens behind closed doors, you'd understand why. Most meetings between academics and admin depts go like this:
Admin: We're doubling the intake of students next year, and we think you can do that with 25% less staff.
Academic: We can't double intake, reduce teaching, and still maintain the quality.
Admin: Sure you can, let me show you an excel spreadsheet.....
Academics: Those sums are complete nonsense, it's simply not possible, here's the proof.
Admin: Then let's take away your classrooms and computing equipment, and you can do all your lectures via skype.
Academics: That's not going to happen.
Admin: It is happening. Deal with it.
Academics: Then we'll find our own funding....
12 months later:
Admin: You've got the largest amount of funding in the university, we're going to distribute that out to other courses.
Academics: You can't. We're 100% funded by companies. You simply cannot take that money from us, the sponsors will not agree to it.
Admin: Tough. We need to even up the distribution of funds. By the way, cut teaching staff by 25%.
Sponsor: You've used the funding for things it was not intended, we're withdrawing all future funding
Academic: We're f*****d
Admin: No you aren't, simply go out and find more sponsors for the course. You did it last year, it should be easy to do again right?
Academic: I quit.
At least, that's why I no longer lecture anyway. It's a thankless task. You're constantly screwed over by admins trying to make a quick buck here and there. Your teaching suffers as a result, and the students end up thinking you're a lazy miserable so and so. If you concentrate entirely on teaching, your students get royally shafted. I've never met an academic who didn't have his/her students as their first priority. Most of what goes on behind the scenes is rarely, if ever, seen by the students..... so students often get the wrong idea about their lecturers.
No. I'd imagine that some digital cameras use FPGA's though, but only as a way to get high speed image processing capabilities (performed in parallel)
I was thinking along the same lines, although I think the z80 might be a more fitting choice.... It would be like the errant step-child coming home to roost ;)
Squeeze in the uint8 AVX instructions, add some internal ram, keep it within the original 80 pin package, and I'd finally be able to pimp my 48k speccy to a whole new level of awesome!!
I'll add one to that list. Start browsing forums where users are likely to be seeking help for your product. If you spot something along the lines of:
;)
Forum user: Help! How do I do X with product Y.
You: Contact out support department, and we'll be happy to help.
Forum user: FFS! I wouldn't be contacting support if I had a valid license!
Forum moderator: Forum user suspended for requesting help with pirated software.
Other forum users: Lol! What a dick!
About 75% of the time, people on those sorts of forums, tend to have links to their portfolios and CV's, often with information about their youtube/flickr accounts. I wouldn't bother trying to prosecute them though. Public humiliation is enough of a punishment imho
A dongle does a lot of good: i.e. encryption / decryption keys that the cracker can never know.
I use autodesk software. It does not use a dongle, but it does have a rather draconian license server. Once upon a time, they had learning editions with watermarks, and now they just have 30 day trials. Trust me, a dongle is far less hassle than autodesk's license server & license keys.... especially if you need to get a range of their software served from the same machine.
The crack will be up on pirate bay (etc etc) by the end of the week.
I was crunching on an all-nighter once, just putting the finishing touches to a product prior to it's version 2.0 release. Whilst building the installer, I thought I'd browse the web to see if the first version had been cracked yet. Rather interestingly, I came across a download link for version 2.0 of the software, as well as a number of torrents for it. Most of those were only available if you bought some premium rate download service membership or some crap like that. I think that a small fee for a download service is a damned good deal if you ask me. Announce a release date, download the installer from bit torrent, and then ship it! Everyone's happy! :)
We need a very advanced AI to sort through all that data. Let's call it Skynet.
Replace 'Skynet' with 'G.C.H.Q.' and replace 'advanced AI' with 'tonnes of data entry work', and you're not too far off.....
become more agile
I'm not a massive fan of agile, but in this case re-prioritizing tickets once a year is simply not often enough. Priorities change on a weekly basis. Your process should reflect that.