Plenty of alternatives: Xbox. Steambox, whatever. Microsoft may "suck" but they are a LOT less customer hostile than sony has proven to be, irrespective of what the/. groupthink says.
"With other operating systems it could take weeks to get to know to internal workings of the OS. In MenuetOS you simply could draw a pixel anywhere on the screen if you wanted to without worrying about device contexts and bitmaps etc." It's good for prototyping, he adds.
i.e., from the sounds of it, it is not multi user, and everything runs with superuser privileges. It is written entirely in assembly language which adds another level of complexity for the programmer to deal with.
Whilst it sounds like an interesting research project, and is no doubt likely to be quite a lot faster than any other multi-user OS, those are some MASSIVE trade-offs, especially with regards to security and stability.
Who said anything about "afford"? Not everywhere has good internet. Internet connectivity is not necessarily portable. Game consoles are.
And you don't even have to go to the third world. I was working out on remote mine sites for a few years. I was on 100-150k/yr (low paying IT job compared to what many others would get on a site). Really poor, or in some cases, no internet connectivity in my room. Which means entertainment is either reading a book, watching TV (barf), drinking beer or gaming.
Money isn't necessarily the problem, if internet is simply not available.
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UH... and you think SONY winning will send that message? Lulwut...
I'm in the opposite camp. I've bought a Sony PS1,PS2, PS3 and PSP, and this time around I won't be buying Sony. The XBOX one looks like it has some neat features with regards to being an all in one media centre - processing tv, etc. On paper spec the PS4 is superior, but I've seen "in theory" on paper specs failing in reality plenty of times before. At $60/yr, online service isn't a major cost, that's something like 15c per day or $5/month. If it keeps the fuckwits off the service then maybe its not such a bad thing?
Entirely misses the point. A paying customer purchased an item from sony that they retro-actively downgraded. For the obligatory car analogy - its like chevrolet selling you a Corvette ZR1 and then handing you back a regular base model Corvette after the first service. It's not the device you paid for any more. Its the principle of the matter.
It's not about the features on this console, it is one of MANY instances of sony being untrustworthy, lying wankers. The poster is holding a grudge, as do I, because sony deserve to be punished in the marketplace. Same way half of slashdot hold a grudge against microsoft over the stability of Windows 95.
In theory, sure. In practice, when you want applications to talk to each other and share data, virtualization doesn't really work very well. Also, Microsoft don't keep around broken APIs *forever*. A long time, yes (2-3 business upgrade cycles, so say 10-15 years, sometimes more, sometimes less) - but not forever.
Copyright duration should expire with the author or if the author decides, before that date. Copyrights are different to patents - there's nothing stopping you re-implementing an idea what is under copyright.
What gives you or anyone else the right to force me to do anything with my own code?
Pretty much. And it is in neither AMD or Nvidia's interests to support OpenCL over their own proprietary stuff. no matter, intel are on board and eventually, what intel supports will win out, as intel ship a shitload more units than anyone else.
Where does the certificate come from? And if you are MITM'd by someone who owns your CA, how do you know that the certificate being presented is valid? HTTPS in this instance would have made precisely fuck all difference. HTTPS in it's current implementation will stop maybe script kiddies and the average phisher. not state-sponsored attacks.
Nah, the real question is when more than 1% of the internet's user base give a shit enough to be concerned enough to even consider whether or not the remote site they are talking to is trustworthy. Let's start with trying to stop them from opening attachments first, then we'll worry about solving global surveillance issues, eh? Baby steps.
Now I'll prefix this by saying I think this whole surveillance stuff is disgusting.... however, that said...
This is where cyberspace gets a little hairy. If they never set foot in belgium, and were not making modifications to belgium owned assets, then I would argue that belgium law has fuck all to do with anything. Just because Belgium user's computers trusted the internet at large it doesn't make it the GCHQ problem.
No, what you said is that above 200mph is basically useless. Which isn't true. They just can't get there with the horsepower the engineering restrictions they are limited to.
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Plenty of alternatives: Xbox. Steambox, whatever. Microsoft may "suck" but they are a LOT less customer hostile than sony has proven to be, irrespective of what the /. groupthink says.
and just on that.... you can increase speed by throwing hardware at the problem. you can't increase security or stability by doing that.
i.e., from the sounds of it, it is not multi user, and everything runs with superuser privileges. It is written entirely in assembly language which adds another level of complexity for the programmer to deal with.
Whilst it sounds like an interesting research project, and is no doubt likely to be quite a lot faster than any other multi-user OS, those are some MASSIVE trade-offs, especially with regards to security and stability.
Who said anything about "afford"? Not everywhere has good internet. Internet connectivity is not necessarily portable. Game consoles are.
And you don't even have to go to the third world. I was working out on remote mine sites for a few years. I was on 100-150k/yr (low paying IT job compared to what many others would get on a site). Really poor, or in some cases, no internet connectivity in my room. Which means entertainment is either reading a book, watching TV (barf), drinking beer or gaming.
Money isn't necessarily the problem, if internet is simply not available.
UH... and you think SONY winning will send that message? Lulwut...
I'm in the opposite camp. I've bought a Sony PS1,PS2, PS3 and PSP, and this time around I won't be buying Sony. The XBOX one looks like it has some neat features with regards to being an all in one media centre - processing tv, etc. On paper spec the PS4 is superior, but I've seen "in theory" on paper specs failing in reality plenty of times before. At $60/yr, online service isn't a major cost, that's something like 15c per day or $5/month. If it keeps the fuckwits off the service then maybe its not such a bad thing?
Entirely misses the point. A paying customer purchased an item from sony that they retro-actively downgraded. For the obligatory car analogy - its like chevrolet selling you a Corvette ZR1 and then handing you back a regular base model Corvette after the first service. It's not the device you paid for any more. Its the principle of the matter.
It's not about the features on this console, it is one of MANY instances of sony being untrustworthy, lying wankers. The poster is holding a grudge, as do I, because sony deserve to be punished in the marketplace. Same way half of slashdot hold a grudge against microsoft over the stability of Windows 95.
More to the point: OtherOS, Sony Rootkit fiasco, being slow/less than 100% honest about the PSN hack.
If the spy has a copy of your site's SSL certificate, you're still screwed. As I suspect the NSA can/does do.
In theory, sure. In practice, when you want applications to talk to each other and share data, virtualization doesn't really work very well. Also, Microsoft don't keep around broken APIs *forever*. A long time, yes (2-3 business upgrade cycles, so say 10-15 years, sometimes more, sometimes less) - but not forever.
Amiga Forever gives you a legit license to the ROMs. If you have a physical Amiga, run stuff on that? It's not like Amiga Forever is expensive.
Copyright duration should expire with the author or if the author decides, before that date. Copyrights are different to patents - there's nothing stopping you re-implementing an idea what is under copyright.
What gives you or anyone else the right to force me to do anything with my own code?
Commercial apple II emulation?
Given that Windows licenses are not generally transferrable to new hardware anyway, this isn't such a surprise.
Second best maps on iPhone? :D
Pretty much. And it is in neither AMD or Nvidia's interests to support OpenCL over their own proprietary stuff. no matter, intel are on board and eventually, what intel supports will win out, as intel ship a shitload more units than anyone else.
AMD's mantle technology was taken into account. They ran all the common software currently utilising it.
By that reasoning, just apply more (equivalent to AMD) cooling to the GeForce and overclock it more?
Of course it is a response. "Yes, we received your message".
Where does the certificate come from? And if you are MITM'd by someone who owns your CA, how do you know that the certificate being presented is valid? HTTPS in this instance would have made precisely fuck all difference. HTTPS in it's current implementation will stop maybe script kiddies and the average phisher. not state-sponsored attacks.
Nah, the real question is when more than 1% of the internet's user base give a shit enough to be concerned enough to even consider whether or not the remote site they are talking to is trustworthy. Let's start with trying to stop them from opening attachments first, then we'll worry about solving global surveillance issues, eh? Baby steps.
Now I'll prefix this by saying I think this whole surveillance stuff is disgusting.... however, that said...
This is where cyberspace gets a little hairy. If they never set foot in belgium, and were not making modifications to belgium owned assets, then I would argue that belgium law has fuck all to do with anything. Just because Belgium user's computers trusted the internet at large it doesn't make it the GCHQ problem.
out-of-band, self signed certs for the win!
No, what you said is that above 200mph is basically useless. Which isn't true. They just can't get there with the horsepower the engineering restrictions they are limited to.