Oh, man do I wish Apple had signed on with the Alpha processor instead of the PowerPC when they were looking to upgrade from the 68k. They went with PowerPC, I would guess, because it was made by Motorola, who had treated them so well with the 68k. If Apple had migrated to the Alpha instead of the PPC, their systems would now be absolutely incredible. Not to mention the fact that there would probably have been more money over the past several years to research the Alpha, and more demand for such. Too bad.
I saw a special on the History Channel or A&E about a month back (it may or may not have been a rerun, but I assume it was because Kevin's hair looked very different from the article's picture), in which Kevin was touring a CompUSA or something and talking about some of the things he did. He walked up to one of the demo computers and pointed at it, saying something like: "If I touch this keyboard, I could go away for a long time." That may not be entirely pertinent to your question, but it seems that he may have had at least a part in it...
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This appears to be a huge vulnerability in a lot of programs used by a lot of people (including a lot of us) that could allow a couple dozed (or less) script kiddies to take down a lot of game servers. That 1:393 response ratio is awful. Some kid with DSL could take down, what, 20 servers at the same time? What chance is there that EA will release a patch some time soon? They had been notified like 2 months ago, and haven't even responded yet.
I always knew GameSpy was a crappy product, but this just brings it to a whole new level.
I don't know if I should even be posting this, but I have a question about the last thing you said. The bit about it costing $18 to manufacture the card. I cannot tell if you are telling true information in the same form as the previous ones, or if that is actually false (as it seems). Is that really the case?
Bush has essentially been mute on the top of space exploration to this day.
That's because he was just recently convinced that there was actually land outside of Texas: how could he be expected to understand the concept of "outer space."
Yeah, but anyone who has compiled data like that would not be too eager to submit another link to Slashdot. After all, they don't really want to get smoked again...
Well, they could have it ruled that only the EULAs that are not convenient for them are not binding, whereas the ones that apply to us still are. Don't underestimate the power of a billion dollars in a courtroom...
Evolution? Doesn't that imply better? I would not say SMS is the evolution of AIM/ICQ, but rather that it is a cheap hack to get a crappy version of it to work on a phone.
You know, Mr. Valenti, you may well be right. But allow me to be the first to say that your bias in favor of billions of dollars is as odious to the objective viewer as our "unreasonable" bias towards freedom. However, a bias towards freedom for all is, in all likelihood, better than a bias towards wealth for a few. If you can think of no way for you guys to get richer without infringing upon our rights, without breaking laws, don't you think it's time to start thinking harder? Or start thinking about what you're going to do with all that money when you die? Or what you're going to sleep on when it runs out? After all, how do you sleep at night?
To be honest, I don't think any electric car can compete with a sports car or a muscle car in any kind of race, unless one of the rules for that race is that no gasoline can be used...
Yeah, but how many geeks would be interested in playing an MMORPG where your ability to advance is based on physical ability and coordination? Isn't the reason so many geeks got into the business their inability to do that?
Your statement makes me think of an interesting point. Most of these crackers are like 15, anyway. That's where the term "script kiddie" came from. So why should a 15 year old get off more lightly at all for a crime that is almost exclusively committed by 15 year olds? That almost entirely negates the law's ability to deter the crime.
No, it's more like saying "Microsoft issues a new patch for IIS, damage done by script kiddies expected to slow down." It's still better than not doing it.
You could install like a megaphone thing with a sound byte of an old V8 revving up. The problem, of course, is that people would come up to you at red lights and want to drag race. How stupid would you feel if your GTO could only do 0-60 in 15 seconds?
Ummm... what? Are you saying you'd rather they spend their money on the useless and failing ISS or another trip to the moon (which was originally done only for PR) rather than develop something that will slow down their destruction of the environment? With this new rocket fuel, they will have a new argument for funding (the environmentalists groups will probably lean more in favor of them, rather than leaning against them, if they move to make a case at all). Additionally, they can sell this fuel to other companies/organizations that launch things into space, like the European and Japanese Space Agencies or Boeing/Lockheed/Arianespace/etc.
The idea (now proven) that strange, alternative fuels work may even come down to airplanes and later automobiles. NASA advocates have always said that they discover things which make our lives better. This may eventually develop into one of those things.
And change the internal interconnects so that it costs less to make the processor and it can be scaled up more easily. The Power4 uses interconnects that are very thick (I forget the exact term for them), and as a result the actual clock speed cannot be raised that high but the processor will last practically forever. The PowerPC 970 is basically a Power4 without extremely expensive optimizations that will last only about as long as a standard processor on the market (rather than as long as... well, forever).
If Linux is to come up with better hardware, Microsoft will have to do it first. Linux gets installed on so many systems because a lot of people get fed up with Windows and install Linux over it (or beside it). If they need to buy an entirely new machine to run Linux, a machine that costs considerably more, they will be inclined not to choose Linux. After all, it would "cost more." Linux can be successful because it runs well on cheap hardware.
That said, I would absolutely love to see more support for the Alpha architecture among the Linux distros; it just doesn't seem to get the same attention that the inferior x86 gets.
Oh. Crap. That does sound bad. Have they announced who will succeed him?
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Umm, he said next software announcement. That was the last one. The interesting thing will be to see if they release an entire office suite to compete head on with MS Office. Safari and Keynote were the next software announcement until they were announced, at which point they made people anxious for the possibility of a new AppleWorks.
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Oh, man do I wish Apple had signed on with the Alpha processor instead of the PowerPC when they were looking to upgrade from the 68k. They went with PowerPC, I would guess, because it was made by Motorola, who had treated them so well with the 68k. If Apple had migrated to the Alpha instead of the PPC, their systems would now be absolutely incredible. Not to mention the fact that there would probably have been more money over the past several years to research the Alpha, and more demand for such. Too bad.
I saw a special on the History Channel or A&E about a month back (it may or may not have been a rerun, but I assume it was because Kevin's hair looked very different from the article's picture), in which Kevin was touring a CompUSA or something and talking about some of the things he did. He walked up to one of the demo computers and pointed at it, saying something like: "If I touch this keyboard, I could go away for a long time." That may not be entirely pertinent to your question, but it seems that he may have had at least a part in it...
Dude, he has a girlfriend. RTFA.
This appears to be a huge vulnerability in a lot of programs used by a lot of people (including a lot of us) that could allow a couple dozed (or less) script kiddies to take down a lot of game servers. That 1:393 response ratio is awful. Some kid with DSL could take down, what, 20 servers at the same time? What chance is there that EA will release a patch some time soon? They had been notified like 2 months ago, and haven't even responded yet.
I always knew GameSpy was a crappy product, but this just brings it to a whole new level.
I don't know if I should even be posting this, but I have a question about the last thing you said. The bit about it costing $18 to manufacture the card. I cannot tell if you are telling true information in the same form as the previous ones, or if that is actually false (as it seems). Is that really the case?
Bush has essentially been mute on the top of space exploration to this day.
That's because he was just recently convinced that there was actually land outside of Texas: how could he be expected to understand the concept of "outer space."
"I can imagine a world without hatred or war, and I can imagine us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
Yeah, but anyone who has compiled data like that would not be too eager to submit another link to Slashdot. After all, they don't really want to get smoked again...
Well, they could have it ruled that only the EULAs that are not convenient for them are not binding, whereas the ones that apply to us still are. Don't underestimate the power of a billion dollars in a courtroom...
Evolution? Doesn't that imply better? I would not say SMS is the evolution of AIM/ICQ, but rather that it is a cheap hack to get a crappy version of it to work on a phone.
You know, Mr. Valenti, you may well be right. But allow me to be the first to say that your bias in favor of billions of dollars is as odious to the objective viewer as our "unreasonable" bias towards freedom. However, a bias towards freedom for all is, in all likelihood, better than a bias towards wealth for a few. If you can think of no way for you guys to get richer without infringing upon our rights, without breaking laws, don't you think it's time to start thinking harder? Or start thinking about what you're going to do with all that money when you die? Or what you're going to sleep on when it runs out? After all, how do you sleep at night?
To be honest, I don't think any electric car can compete with a sports car or a muscle car in any kind of race, unless one of the rules for that race is that no gasoline can be used...
Yeah, but how many geeks would be interested in playing an MMORPG where your ability to advance is based on physical ability and coordination? Isn't the reason so many geeks got into the business their inability to do that?
Your statement makes me think of an interesting point. Most of these crackers are like 15, anyway. That's where the term "script kiddie" came from. So why should a 15 year old get off more lightly at all for a crime that is almost exclusively committed by 15 year olds? That almost entirely negates the law's ability to deter the crime.
What if they die?
charging for something that is supposed to spread the gospel.
You mean a bible? I hear they still charge for those...
Well, it's still something, but that information is good to know.
No, it's more like saying "Microsoft issues a new patch for IIS, damage done by script kiddies expected to slow down." It's still better than not doing it.
I would miss the sound on an electric though.
You could install like a megaphone thing with a sound byte of an old V8 revving up. The problem, of course, is that people would come up to you at red lights and want to drag race. How stupid would you feel if your GTO could only do 0-60 in 15 seconds?
Ummm... what? Are you saying you'd rather they spend their money on the useless and failing ISS or another trip to the moon (which was originally done only for PR) rather than develop something that will slow down their destruction of the environment? With this new rocket fuel, they will have a new argument for funding (the environmentalists groups will probably lean more in favor of them, rather than leaning against them, if they move to make a case at all). Additionally, they can sell this fuel to other companies/organizations that launch things into space, like the European and Japanese Space Agencies or Boeing/Lockheed/Arianespace/etc.
The idea (now proven) that strange, alternative fuels work may even come down to airplanes and later automobiles. NASA advocates have always said that they discover things which make our lives better. This may eventually develop into one of those things.
And change the internal interconnects so that it costs less to make the processor and it can be scaled up more easily. The Power4 uses interconnects that are very thick (I forget the exact term for them), and as a result the actual clock speed cannot be raised that high but the processor will last practically forever. The PowerPC 970 is basically a Power4 without extremely expensive optimizations that will last only about as long as a standard processor on the market (rather than as long as... well, forever).
If Linux is to come up with better hardware, Microsoft will have to do it first. Linux gets installed on so many systems because a lot of people get fed up with Windows and install Linux over it (or beside it). If they need to buy an entirely new machine to run Linux, a machine that costs considerably more, they will be inclined not to choose Linux. After all, it would "cost more." Linux can be successful because it runs well on cheap hardware.
That said, I would absolutely love to see more support for the Alpha architecture among the Linux distros; it just doesn't seem to get the same attention that the inferior x86 gets.
None of that crappy hackwork is any good.
Oh. Crap. That does sound bad. Have they announced who will succeed him?
Umm, he said next software announcement. That was the last one. The interesting thing will be to see if they release an entire office suite to compete head on with MS Office. Safari and Keynote were the next software announcement until they were announced, at which point they made people anxious for the possibility of a new AppleWorks.