Bnetd is a circumvention device because it allows people to copy warcraft III and play it when they should not be able to. The wc3 beta will only work on battle.net so theoretically blizzard could keep people from distributing copies of the game to non beta testers. Since you can instead play on bnetd the copy protection is circumvented. Bnetd is not the source being copied, its the circumvention device, just as decss is not the actuall content to be copied, its the device used to circumvent copy protect.
er, at least I am assuming thats the case Blizzard is making.
The problem is that cable and satalite suck ass. Cable has shit for upload because they cap it (its at 128Kbps where I live, and you aren't allowed to host anything) and satallite has evil bad latency because the signal has to be sent into OUTER SPACE and back. DSL is the better solution. I have 1.5 Mb up and down and 5 IPs. Moreover I can do anything with my bandwidth that I want. THe problem lies in the fact that if this bill passes I will be stuck with Qwest's chosen ISP (MSN) instead of the kick ass little ISP that I use now. Its not resonable to ask that ISPs set up their own infrastructure, that isn't possible. The telecoms are monopolies plain and simple. I can't chose who my phone provider is but at least I can chose the ISP. Now I may not even be able to do that and this pisses me off.
Oh well, if this bill passes I can always get a security line run out to my ISP and to hell with qwest.
For those who want a good description of .net
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I suggest you go read the recent article posted on ArsTechnica. It does a good job presenting what.net actually is, without any of the marketroid speach that MS so loves to inject into all of their descriptions of.net.
Well, this will probably get me flamed to oblivion but I will post it anyway.
I would like to see some good books dealing with C++ in VS.net. There are all kinds of books on VB.net and C#, but almost nothing on managed C++, changes to MFC and ATL, the new winforms and webforms, etc. There are quite a few of us making a living making client side apps in C++ for windows, it would be nice to learn what the future has in store for us.
Older technology that did about the same thing
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A couple years ago there was a company that sold what amounted to a thimble with a ps2 connection. You put the thimble on and it read your alpha and beta waves and after a couple hours calibration allowed you to flawlessly control the mouse mearly by thinking. I can't for the life of me remember what it was called but damn did I want one to play WarCraft II with (not that I needed any more of an advantage mind you). Unfortunately it cost about $250 at the time and I wasn't old enough to be working to afford such a toy. Anyway, controlling a mouse cursor by thought isn't anything new, just the ways in which we do it.
Now its just a matter of time before i get my data jack a la Shadowrun.
Actually a lot of that sounds bad. The Bruce Schneier and Adam Shostack piece would have us return to a computing environment from the 80s. Sure it was simpler, and thus prone to less securities holes, but it also removes a hell of a lot of useful functionality. For example they suggest that MS remove ActiveX controls that are safe to script from Internet Explorer, which is a hideous idea. Sure, it allows some one who is malicious to fuxor a system, but it also allows companies to role out very complex and dynamic applications from within the web browser, removing the need for an admin to install software on every machine (or setup sms or some other style of push software). It also allows the controls to be scripted against in the web browser allowing application developers options that would never be possible in a netscape style plugin. The benifits far outway the drawbacks (and abuse of this system rarely happens). Essantially the authors want to take a way functionality that users expect. There is no way someone would go back to windows 3.1 and ie 2 (or netscape anything below 6.1) after playing around with XP. By the way, thats also why no average desktop user switches to linux. I am sorry but its true, users don't like having to go and install and configure everything seperately (as the authors would have them do). It is just to much a pain in the ass for users.
HAHAHA. You must be living in a nice little make believe world. Perhaps you missed the little stink where AOL intentionally broke Windows Dialup Networking so that users would find it incredibly hard to switch to a different ISP. MS may have tried every trick in the book to keep Netscape off the desktop but they never wrote code to prevent Netscape from working (Netscape didn't really need any help doing that though). Then we have the IM wars. AOL is told that they have to open up their protocal if they want to merge with TW, but to keep others from taking advantage of this AOL then starts checking the checksum. These are 2 of a damn long list of dirty tricks AOL is guilty of. In my mind they are far worse then MS (who only manipulates the market like any Corperation tries to do).
Lay off the crack pipe dude. The CLR was invented for platform independance (so it runs on PocketPC as well, oooh), not total world control. Sure it will increase MS market share, but I seriously doubt it will prevent you from implementing DeCSS or writing an MP3 player (seeing as how that would be an amazing feat of code parcing on the part of VS.net to prevent).
Now as how it will compare to the Java VM, if it performs as well as the MS VM does it will be a hell of a lot faster.
The reason that the various *nix OSes are immune to virii/worms of this type is because the vast majority of users use windows and MS products, not because of any superior security on the nix part. I am forced to use MS products at work and I have never been infected by a worm/virus because I know better. The average user doesn't know better. If they were on unix it would probably be an even worse problem because they would have even less of an idea of whats going on. I think Microsoft has made some bad decisions in its time, but I blame the worm/virus proliferation on the vulnerability of the users, not the vulnerability of the operating system.
You say that it takes very little ground breaking design for a bridge, you just drop it in place, however that is hardly the case. You want an example, try the Tacoma Narrows bridge. Lets just take the standard suspension bridge model in drop in it place. What do you mean there are harmonics that will cause it to collapse, oops, oh well. Sure you can take the basic concept and use it as a template (just run the MFC bridge making wizard...) but you should still do a heck of a lot custom design to make sure its suited for the conditions that it will be used in.
Okay, two things.
1. The source code for XP is available through shared source, and contrary to to popular belief shared source has existed for a long time, just without the spiffy name. Devs could always get the source code for part of a MS product if they had Premier support or were in the acedmic field, now its just easier to get the source. What this means is that someone would be the wiser.
2. Microsoft has already taken quite a bit from FreeBSD and have acknowledged doing so. Example: The TCP/IP stack in win2k was lifted directly out of FreeBSD and Microsoft acknowoledges this.
Don't try to spin this as another way that linux is better then windows. Some Linux dev fucked up. Sure anyone can see source code and check in changes, but guess what, that isn't always a good thing.
I wonder how the author would explain this
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Languages are based on either of two things: function and expression (you might have noticed that this was touched on in the artical though in a different context). Mathmatical languages are based on functionality, Spoken languages are based on expression. This does not imply that math can't be used for expression and spoken languages can't be used to define functionality, but it does imply that they are not typically used that way. Programming languages are based on functionality which means they have far more in common with Einstein's proofs then with Tolkien's novels. This means a programmer has far more in common with the verying engineering feilds then then with poets, since both the programmer and the engineer use functional languages to design something, but neither build the finished product. The programmer just has a faster compiler then the physical engineer (compiler here being analagos to construction workers for you slow people out there). Oh, and every once and a while physical engineers have to think up something new (Perhaps you have heard of the wright brothers, they had a new fangled idea, it was called an airplane).
I used to go to the gamecenter every couple of months when it was in Renton. When it moved to the U district my friends and I would ride the ferry over every couple of weekends and hop a bus to it. Its sad to see it go. Even after I stopped playing magic I would take a trip over there occassionaly. Those battle tech simulators kicked ass, and I will miss the whine of the chump kids as I hand them their asses at WarCraft II. Ah the memories.
For me its WarCraft II. God I love that game. Sure StarCraft is technically superior, but WarCraft has more personality. If I wasn't at work I would go play it now. Zug Zug.
You can go out and buy the kings quest and quest for glory anthologies. They are around $15 and contain almost all titles from the respective series (the kq one does not contain 7 or 8).
I have been trying to get more info on that player for a while. Ign has been trying to get a review unit for a while and haven't heard anything back from the company. There seems to be no reviews up on the web concerning it. Further more everyone in the home theater forum seems to think its a hoax. The unit does seem a little to good to be true and the list of master system games contain a whole lot of Genesis games. Anyone else find this odd. I sent an email off to the company 2 weeks ago just to see if they would aleave my fears (hell even if the unit had shitty dvd playback it would still be worth $250) but have yet to hear anything from them. At the moment I am leaning towards hoax myself, though if it is one, its fairly well thought out.
1) War on Drugs
I would make it easier for me to get them.
2) Minority Religions...
Freedom of religion does not apply to non Christians.
3) Why give a tax cut?
People will vote for me if they think I will save them money. Realistically only rich people will get tax cuts though.
4) electoral reform
There are more then 2 parties?
5)How Do You Feel About Intellectual Property?
I will have to check with my corperate sponsers before I answer this.
6) Encryption....
Why would you need to hide anything from the government?
7) Rising Political Protests
Globalization is good for corperations, and therefore good for the citizens.
8) Asteroid Defenses
I am glad you asked this. I am a firm believer in Reagan's starwars plans, but unfortunately they met with failure. I plan on redesigning the basic premise and starting work on the third deathstar. That should make us safe from all space bound threats.
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Bnetd is a circumvention device because it allows people to copy warcraft III and play it when they should not be able to. The wc3 beta will only work on battle.net so theoretically blizzard could keep people from distributing copies of the game to non beta testers. Since you can instead play on bnetd the copy protection is circumvented. Bnetd is not the source being copied, its the circumvention device, just as decss is not the actuall content to be copied, its the device used to circumvent copy protect.
er, at least I am assuming thats the case Blizzard is making.
If the windows version of real player is "much better" then the linux version then I really hate to see the linux version.
The problem is that cable and satalite suck ass. Cable has shit for upload because they cap it (its at 128Kbps where I live, and you aren't allowed to host anything) and satallite has evil bad latency because the signal has to be sent into OUTER SPACE and back. DSL is the better solution. I have 1.5 Mb up and down and 5 IPs. Moreover I can do anything with my bandwidth that I want. THe problem lies in the fact that if this bill passes I will be stuck with Qwest's chosen ISP (MSN) instead of the kick ass little ISP that I use now. Its not resonable to ask that ISPs set up their own infrastructure, that isn't possible. The telecoms are monopolies plain and simple. I can't chose who my phone provider is but at least I can chose the ISP. Now I may not even be able to do that and this pisses me off.
Oh well, if this bill passes I can always get a security line run out to my ISP and to hell with qwest.
I suggest you go read the recent article posted on ArsTechnica. It does a good job presenting what .net actually is, without any of the marketroid speach that MS so loves to inject into all of their descriptions of .net.
The first pc RTS was Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned rat, not Dune II.
Well, this will probably get me flamed to oblivion but I will post it anyway.
I would like to see some good books dealing with C++ in VS.net. There are all kinds of books on VB.net and C#, but almost nothing on managed C++, changes to MFC and ATL, the new winforms and webforms, etc. There are quite a few of us making a living making client side apps in C++ for windows, it would be nice to learn what the future has in store for us.
A couple years ago there was a company that sold what amounted to a thimble with a ps2 connection. You put the thimble on and it read your alpha and beta waves and after a couple hours calibration allowed you to flawlessly control the mouse mearly by thinking. I can't for the life of me remember what it was called but damn did I want one to play WarCraft II with (not that I needed any more of an advantage mind you). Unfortunately it cost about $250 at the time and I wasn't old enough to be working to afford such a toy. Anyway, controlling a mouse cursor by thought isn't anything new, just the ways in which we do it.
Now its just a matter of time before i get my data jack a la Shadowrun.
Actually a lot of that sounds bad. The Bruce Schneier and Adam Shostack piece would have us return to a computing environment from the 80s. Sure it was simpler, and thus prone to less securities holes, but it also removes a hell of a lot of useful functionality. For example they suggest that MS remove ActiveX controls that are safe to script from Internet Explorer, which is a hideous idea. Sure, it allows some one who is malicious to fuxor a system, but it also allows companies to role out very complex and dynamic applications from within the web browser, removing the need for an admin to install software on every machine (or setup sms or some other style of push software). It also allows the controls to be scripted against in the web browser allowing application developers options that would never be possible in a netscape style plugin. The benifits far outway the drawbacks (and abuse of this system rarely happens). Essantially the authors want to take a way functionality that users expect. There is no way someone would go back to windows 3.1 and ie 2 (or netscape anything below 6.1) after playing around with XP. By the way, thats also why no average desktop user switches to linux. I am sorry but its true, users don't like having to go and install and configure everything seperately (as the authors would have them do). It is just to much a pain in the ass for users.
"AOLTW isn't afraid to play fair"
HAHAHA. You must be living in a nice little make believe world. Perhaps you missed the little stink where AOL intentionally broke Windows Dialup Networking so that users would find it incredibly hard to switch to a different ISP. MS may have tried every trick in the book to keep Netscape off the desktop but they never wrote code to prevent Netscape from working (Netscape didn't really need any help doing that though). Then we have the IM wars. AOL is told that they have to open up their protocal if they want to merge with TW, but to keep others from taking advantage of this AOL then starts checking the checksum. These are 2 of a damn long list of dirty tricks AOL is guilty of. In my mind they are far worse then MS (who only manipulates the market like any Corperation tries to do).
Lay off the crack pipe dude. The CLR was invented for platform independance (so it runs on PocketPC as well, oooh), not total world control. Sure it will increase MS market share, but I seriously doubt it will prevent you from implementing DeCSS or writing an MP3 player (seeing as how that would be an amazing feat of code parcing on the part of VS.net to prevent).
Now as how it will compare to the Java VM, if it performs as well as the MS VM does it will be a hell of a lot faster.
who can tell one boy band from another
The reason that the various *nix OSes are immune to virii/worms of this type is because the vast majority of users use windows and MS products, not because of any superior security on the nix part. I am forced to use MS products at work and I have never been infected by a worm/virus because I know better. The average user doesn't know better. If they were on unix it would probably be an even worse problem because they would have even less of an idea of whats going on. I think Microsoft has made some bad decisions in its time, but I blame the worm/virus proliferation on the vulnerability of the users, not the vulnerability of the operating system.
I should point out that the U.S. dollar is excepted in more contries then any other currency.
or I could finish it by the deadline...
You say that it takes very little ground breaking design for a bridge, you just drop it in place, however that is hardly the case. You want an example, try the Tacoma Narrows bridge. Lets just take the standard suspension bridge model in drop in it place. What do you mean there are harmonics that will cause it to collapse, oops, oh well. Sure you can take the basic concept and use it as a template (just run the MFC bridge making wizard...) but you should still do a heck of a lot custom design to make sure its suited for the conditions that it will be used in.
Do I get Stock Options?
Okay, two things.
1. The source code for XP is available through shared source, and contrary to to popular belief shared source has existed for a long time, just without the spiffy name. Devs could always get the source code for part of a MS product if they had Premier support or were in the acedmic field, now its just easier to get the source. What this means is that someone would be the wiser.
2. Microsoft has already taken quite a bit from FreeBSD and have acknowledged doing so. Example: The TCP/IP stack in win2k was lifted directly out of FreeBSD and Microsoft acknowoledges this.
Don't try to spin this as another way that linux is better then windows. Some Linux dev fucked up. Sure anyone can see source code and check in changes, but guess what, that isn't always a good thing.
http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/dancemonkeyboy.mpg
Languages are based on either of two things: function and expression (you might have noticed that this was touched on in the artical though in a different context). Mathmatical languages are based on functionality, Spoken languages are based on expression. This does not imply that math can't be used for expression and spoken languages can't be used to define functionality, but it does imply that they are not typically used that way. Programming languages are based on functionality which means they have far more in common with Einstein's proofs then with Tolkien's novels. This means a programmer has far more in common with the verying engineering feilds then then with poets, since both the programmer and the engineer use functional languages to design something, but neither build the finished product. The programmer just has a faster compiler then the physical engineer (compiler here being analagos to construction workers for you slow people out there). Oh, and every once and a while physical engineers have to think up something new (Perhaps you have heard of the wright brothers, they had a new fangled idea, it was called an airplane).
I used to go to the gamecenter every couple of months when it was in Renton. When it moved to the U district my friends and I would ride the ferry over every couple of weekends and hop a bus to it. Its sad to see it go. Even after I stopped playing magic I would take a trip over there occassionaly. Those battle tech simulators kicked ass, and I will miss the whine of the chump kids as I hand them their asses at WarCraft II. Ah the memories.
For me its WarCraft II. God I love that game. Sure StarCraft is technically superior, but WarCraft has more personality. If I wasn't at work I would go play it now. Zug Zug.
You can go out and buy the kings quest and quest for glory anthologies. They are around $15 and contain almost all titles from the respective series (the kq one does not contain 7 or 8).
Just thought you might like to know.
I have been trying to get more info on that player for a while. Ign has been trying to get a review unit for a while and haven't heard anything back from the company. There seems to be no reviews up on the web concerning it. Further more everyone in the home theater forum seems to think its a hoax. The unit does seem a little to good to be true and the list of master system games contain a whole lot of Genesis games. Anyone else find this odd. I sent an email off to the company 2 weeks ago just to see if they would aleave my fears (hell even if the unit had shitty dvd playback it would still be worth $250) but have yet to hear anything from them. At the moment I am leaning towards hoax myself, though if it is one, its fairly well thought out.
1) War on Drugs
I would make it easier for me to get them.
2) Minority Religions...
Freedom of religion does not apply to non Christians.
3) Why give a tax cut?
People will vote for me if they think I will save them money. Realistically only rich people will get tax cuts though.
4) electoral reform
There are more then 2 parties?
5)How Do You Feel About Intellectual Property?
I will have to check with my corperate sponsers before I answer this.
6) Encryption....
Why would you need to hide anything from the government?
7) Rising Political Protests
Globalization is good for corperations, and therefore good for the citizens.
8) Asteroid Defenses
I am glad you asked this. I am a firm believer in Reagan's starwars plans, but unfortunately they met with failure. I plan on redesigning the basic premise and starting work on the third deathstar. That should make us safe from all space bound threats.
Its nice to see that there is still a country not completely run by corperations. Perhaps it is time for me to learn to sprechen sie Deutsch.