I subscribed to Byte "back in the day" and was disgusted with its slide into irrelevance. More of the same will only further sully any respect I had for what it was in its heyday.
I have a zboard keyboard that I primarily use for BF2 and other FPS games. It's great for gaming. I'm able to get to critical keys very easily and my scores have improved quite a bit.
That being said, it sucks horribly for typing (it's mushy and vague feeling). I usually end up removing it after gaming and switching to a decent keyboard. I also HATE the split space bar while using the "normal" keyset. It will frequently jam with the right side of the split spacebar down and I end up with a couple hundred spaces in my documents.
I've tried the Nostromo keyboard but have notice that the driver sucks up too many system resources after a while.
I don't regret buying the Zboard, but don't depend on it for anything but gaming.
ROT-13 isn't secure enough these days given the massive ammount of computing power at everyones fingertips. Double or even quad ROT-13 encoding is usually enough these days.
Google is hosting a nice site called moon.google.com that's similar to google maps. You can actually zoom in close and see detailed views of the moons construction.
GTA:SA and the whole series have to be one of the most violent set of games out there and people are wound up about a tiny bit of sim sex rather than than killing cops and innocent bystanders.
But hack the game so you can see a little sim titty, and out come the feds and the nannys.
Sheesh.
I'd much rather see a game that glorifies sex than violence any day.
> If Walt Disney were alive today, and saw what was happening to his company, he'd be rolling over in his grave!
How do you think they power their theme parks?
They've hooked a generator to his casket and produce mega-walts of electricity!!
Just to stay on topic, compare the last 5 or so movies from Disney studios (the ones they've done in house) with the last 5 from Ghibli. They may make more money, but they're largly soulless cookie-cutter creations.
When Apple last changed processor families, there was a big problem with binary incompatability. Needless to say, there were a lot of very pissed off Apple users. The transition from PowerPC to Intel could be very painful given two different processor families.
The LAST thing Apple needs to do is to piss off it's user base.
Yeah, install AIM these nowadays and your desktop and start menu get filled with all sorts of AOL cruft.
When "Elf" came out, AIM was pushing these horrible "LOUD" ads for it on the AIM client (I managed to block most of it by blocking access to their ad server).
I know AOLs hurting for money and trying madly to get some revenue, but they need to make sure they don't chase away potential clients with obnoxious behavior and poorly written software.
Given that Rush Limbaugh (love him or loathe him) is going to be making his broadcast available via podcast, you could change iTunes to allow downloading DRMed podcasts on a pay-per-download or a subscription basis either through the iTunes store or a third-party source.
Since much of what RH sells is based on open source code, the open source community would smile and route around the problem. RH would be sucked up onto M$, but Linux would live on.
A crash by any name is still a crash. It's like being a little dead instead of REALLY dead.
I'm sure that next Microsoft will be lobbying congress to force other OSs to share the pain and add a crash "feature" to their systems. Sort of a "Diana Moon Glampers" approach to computing
There has been a similar issue for years with audio amplifier specs.
Mfgrs usually tout their amps with having "200 watts of pulsing music power" which usually means 100 watts per channel peak. In reality it's more like 70.7 watts/channel RMS (assuming they're not still lying).
Given how weak their case appears, I can't imagine that anyone wants their IP. Nor can I imagine that any self-respecting Unix SA would want to support their product.
They've been left in the dust by Linux and they're really not relevent anymore. If anything, they're the posterchild for why you should abandon propriatary OSs. I hope Bill Gate$ is paying attention.
I use a usb kvm between my win2k box and my G4. I frequently am SSHed into various Linux and Solaris boxes as well. cutting and pasting between terminal sessions isn't a big deal, but occationally I need to paste between GUI apps or paste URLs. I'll take a peek at a few of the aforementioned tools.
I frequently IM myself as a low-budget cut-and-paste between my computers. It requires 1 screenname for each machine, but it works great.
Most of the people on my team also use IM for the same purpose. We'd explored using jabber-based chat, but AOLs infrastructure is hard to beat.
Since AOL added the ability to have encrypted IM sessions between users, I don't have to worry about getting my sessions intercepted either.
A few years back, there were a rash of problems with users having their IM IDs stolen and used for human-engineering attempts. Self-signed certs are more than adaquate in order to establish an encrypted session. One just has to set up their own CA and get everyone on the team to trust that particular CA.
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Yeah, that's pretty much the reason I gave up reading pournelle's column. :)
I subscribed to Byte "back in the day" and was disgusted with its slide into irrelevance. More of the same will only further sully any respect I had for what it was in its heyday.
What self-respecting SA would buy SCO anyway? Sheesh.
I have a zboard keyboard that I primarily use for BF2 and other FPS games. It's great for gaming. I'm able to get to critical keys very easily and my scores have improved quite a bit.
That being said, it sucks horribly for typing (it's mushy and vague feeling). I usually end up removing it after gaming and switching to a decent keyboard. I also HATE the split space bar while using the "normal" keyset. It will frequently jam with the right side of the split spacebar down and I end up with a couple hundred spaces in my documents.
I've tried the Nostromo keyboard but have notice that the driver sucks up too many system resources after a while.
I don't regret buying the Zboard, but don't depend on it for anything but gaming.
Microsoft bundling anti-spyware software with their OS is kind of like a shipbuilder installing an automatic leak plugger in a new ship.
It'd be better to build it so it didn't leak in the first place.
ROT-13 isn't secure enough these days given the massive ammount of computing power at everyones fingertips. Double or even quad ROT-13 encoding is usually enough these days.
Google is hosting a nice site called moon.google.com that's similar to google maps. You can actually zoom in close and see detailed views of the moons construction.
Highly recommended
If they're worried about the sims, then they'll REALLY hate Single 2: Triple Trouble. Lots of nasty, sim sex out of the box. WooHoo!!! :)
I'm frankly perplexed about the whole issue.
GTA:SA and the whole series have to be one of the most violent set of games out there and people are wound up about a tiny bit of sim sex rather than than killing cops and innocent bystanders.
But hack the game so you can see a little sim titty, and out come the feds and the nannys.
Sheesh.
I'd much rather see a game that glorifies sex than violence any day.
People need to get a sense of perspective.
From the article: "Geographic Information System" == "GIS"
> If Walt Disney were alive today, and saw what was happening to his company, he'd be rolling over in his grave!
How do you think they power their theme parks?
They've hooked a generator to his casket and produce mega-walts of electricity!!
Just to stay on topic, compare the last 5 or so movies from Disney studios (the ones they've done in house) with the last 5 from Ghibli. They may make more money, but they're largly soulless cookie-cutter creations.
One word why Disney is history: Totoro!
Can you say binary incompatability?
When Apple last changed processor families, there was a big problem with binary incompatability. Needless to say, there were a lot of very pissed off Apple users. The transition from PowerPC to Intel could be very painful given two different processor families.
The LAST thing Apple needs to do is to piss off it's user base.
I've been using CRTs for years. Sure, they're big and bulky. Yes, they take a lot of power.
But:
They run very high resolutions and have very little latency (essential for gaming).
They're also very cheap compared with LCDs.
Yeah, install AIM these nowadays and your desktop and start menu get filled with all sorts of AOL cruft.
When "Elf" came out, AIM was pushing these horrible "LOUD" ads for it on the AIM client (I managed to block most of it by blocking access to their ad server).
I know AOLs hurting for money and trying madly to get some revenue, but they need to make sure they don't chase away potential clients with obnoxious behavior and poorly written software.
Tabs appeared in Opera (closed source) before Mozilla or Firefox.
Given that Rush Limbaugh (love him or loathe him) is going to be making his broadcast available via podcast, you could change iTunes to allow downloading DRMed podcasts on a pay-per-download or a subscription basis either through the iTunes store or a third-party source.
They're assuming we already haven't taken control of everything else... who needs email when you control the elevators and doors... :)
Since much of what RH sells is based on open source code, the open source community would smile and route around the problem. RH would be sucked up onto M$, but Linux would live on.
Actually, Microsoft selling anti-virus software is kind of like Ford selling fire suppression systems for Pintos.
It's http://www.schneier.com/
A crash by any name is still a crash. It's like being a little dead instead of REALLY dead.
I'm sure that next Microsoft will be lobbying congress to force other OSs to share the pain and add a crash "feature" to their systems. Sort of a "Diana Moon Glampers" approach to computing
There has been a similar issue for years with audio amplifier specs.
Mfgrs usually tout their amps with having "200 watts of pulsing music power" which usually means 100 watts per channel peak. In reality it's more like 70.7 watts/channel RMS (assuming they're not still lying).
Given how weak their case appears, I can't imagine that anyone wants their IP. Nor can I imagine that any self-respecting Unix SA would want to support their product.
They've been left in the dust by Linux and they're really not relevent anymore. If anything, they're the posterchild for why you should abandon propriatary OSs. I hope Bill Gate$ is paying attention.
I use a usb kvm between my win2k box and my G4. I frequently am SSHed into various Linux and Solaris boxes as well. cutting and pasting between terminal sessions isn't a big deal, but occationally I need to paste between GUI apps or paste URLs. I'll take a peek at a few of the aforementioned tools.
Very true.
I frequently IM myself as a low-budget cut-and-paste between my computers. It requires 1 screenname for each machine, but it works great.
Most of the people on my team also use IM for the same purpose. We'd explored using jabber-based chat, but AOLs infrastructure is hard to beat.
Since AOL added the ability to have encrypted IM sessions between users, I don't have to worry about getting my sessions intercepted either.
A few years back, there were a rash of problems with users having their IM IDs stolen and used for human-engineering attempts. Self-signed certs are more than adaquate in order to establish an encrypted session. One just has to set up their own CA and get everyone on the team to trust that particular CA.