Or, y'know, buying a nice, portable-friendly desktop case and a big LCD. Less "portable", sure, but it has a much, much longer upgrade lifespan. I haven't been a hardcore gamer uh... since I stopped being employed fulltime in lieu of travel and grad school, but were I to get back into it, I'd invest in a desktop.
Re:Morphing and going into hiding, more likely.
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Maybe this was the real reason for Sony's rootkit -- backdoor into computers, then zombie out through them. Then the Sober worm could counteract it... we're getting closer and closer to blanu's Curious Yellow scenario every day...
Hold on, if they cracked this in May and disclosed to the relevant authorities, WTF happened in NOVEMBER when its hundereds of bounces slowed the mail server at my webhost to a grind?
Are they going public now because the authorities haven't done anything?
OTOH, if this were M$ doing this, I'd be much more concerned, but there's still some competition among the AV vendors, and enough Mac and *nix users that the banks probably won't block them all out for not being able to run some activeX virus control.
Plus, who relies on a web service to check their system for virii? That seems... uh.... mildly stupid, giving admin rights to a web app. I'd presume it'd be signed and whatnot, but still...
Yeah, that's poorly worded -- there are very, very powerful email apps for the Linux Desktop, beyond the emacs/vi/mutt/pine crowd, there's Evolution and Thunderbird (which is my email app of choice). What they really mean is a full Outlook/Exchange groupware system; and there are projects that are working on that as well.
It's true, at least for the office setting. The sad fact is, that as horrible as exchange/outlook is, it's still the best groupware/calendar/directory/email/newsgroup/etc. system out there for most definitions of the word best (easy for users, does what you want it to (again, user-level only), integrates well into the domain, etc. etc.)
I anxiously await improved OSS groupware options (a drop-in replacement and extension of Exchange as well as Outlook)
Now, obviously MS probably should have expected some people to play the XBox360 non-stop since they got it, but I doubt they considered 72hrs straight as a normal condition when they designed and tested it:)
(that being said, it's silly that they're having so many problems)
Gartner 2001: (18 July 2001 'Research Management Update: Content Management - Timetable for Digital Rights Management' IGG-07182001-02 written by Michael Calvert; Analytical source: A. Weintraub, from http://www.dcita.gov.au/drm/1981.html:
Gartner predicts that 2003 will be a critical year for DRM when mainstream content providers begin to understand and identify the value propositions DRM systems can provide. Around this time full production systems will be launched and there will be some settling in technology and standards. This will take some of the 'chaos' and risk out of choosing a particular technology for each functionality area. More importantly, there is likely to be a higher availability of well-integrated and flexible systems from outsourcing services or Application Service Providers (ASP). This could dramatically lower the capital and technical investment required from content owners to implement and utilise a range of DRM, ecommerce, marketing and content techniques. In Gartner's view, it won't be until 2004, or more likely 2005, that revenue models start to mature and mainstream adoption of DRM becomes commonplace.
By 2006, Gartner sees the DRM market consolidating and a standard rights description language emerging. They identify the factors that will affect the success of the market as:
* the acceptance by consumers of the regulation of e-content
* the capability of the industry to establish a 'standard rights' language
* the cost balance between developing a secure DRM solution and the potential revenue to be gained from DRM secured e-content management
Not to mention September 2005 (http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?ref=g_sear ch&id=485976): "Organizations increasingly need to create, store, retrieve and manage rich media files. Those that successfully cultivate a digital asset management environment can cut their associated operational costs in half."
Whoa there cowboy. This is Texas we're talkin' about. Stand down with all that high-falutin' legal talk there. Sony obviously just needs some killin', let it be.
Or do us lefties have to constantly switch between stylus-or-navigation buttons? They should just place nav keys on both sides, it'd enable the eventual Katamari port (I can dream, right?)
Seriously, tho, we're 15% of the market (possibly higher among the techie crowd, even), and this device looks to be really horrid for lefty-use, tho otherwise it's an interesting looking gadget. I wonder how video playback is?
"I think legislation is absolutely necessary as we are at a critical point as the technology is changing so quickly. Because of the changes in technology, it's so much easier (to pirate) now. What that's doing is encouraging large-scale criminal enterprises to get involved in intellectual property theft, and that involvement is used, quite frankly, to fund terrorist activities. It is a great concern to the Department of Justice and the administration."
Tomorrow: file-traders are non-legal enemy combatants, and can be jailed offshore and tortured?
I, too, am pissed off, and would like my server to turn into a steaming pile of melty plastic. Please link to my complaints about DRM on my blog pls/thx.
You make a good point, but the $100 laptop project is specifically because they don't see much value in community cyber-center type models. And the laptop, if there's no internet to begin with in the area, won't make it magically appear.
I feel that community internet access has great value as an initial ramp-up into IT development -- the famous story of Indian farmers with community net access able to bargain for better prices once they can in real time find out the prices that the middleman can sell for, for example. I think in an ideal world also every child gets a laptop, because there's only so much "hacking" you can do at a community center, whereas a laptop in your home, there's some quality exploration time. (And not just for pr0n, either!)
Anyway, don't want to go on, because I think we're basically in agreement; I just wanted to clarify that this specific project is parallel to community internet access, which I think is (a) important and (b) largely enabled by cell phone networks
Sure it is, you just have to frame the question differently. e.g.:
Problem: "Our school doesn't have a roof over it!" Answer: "You should have a fundraiser to buy roofing construction supplies and some alumni to volunteer labor" Results: New roof for the school, community strengthening, cost of roof spread out among the entire community via the fundraiser.
Whatever. That might be cost effective, sustainable and useful. Really, you should say:
Problem: "Our school doesn't have a roof, we need CAD software, new computers and a trained IT specialist to help us design one!" Answer: "Let us give your education ministry a loan from the IMF or DevBank to pursue a CAD-in-Schools project, delivering top-of-the-line CAD-capable desktop computers with the latest non-F/LOSS software on it, spending millions of loan-dollars that we'll have to repay later." Results: New computers in every school which get ruined as they got delivered during the rainy season to schools with no roof.
But seriously. The problem of course is Negroponte can create buzz with a $100 laptop-for-every-child program, whereas "put a roof on every rural school" just doesn't quite get the same level of interest from most folk, despite the fact that the cost would be lower and benefits per cost much higher. Try arguing that for the value of ventilated pit latrines (or, gasp, running water) -- people blink at you, because they don't get the fact that that is a need for many schools in the developing world. Cheap computers, they grok.
This is not in defense, just explanation and frustration from my own experience.
Basically, I agree -- If you're gonna pony up $100US/child, lemme suggest, oh, maybe, a billion better projects you can direct that towards.
On the other hand, if you've got some of the basics, not having basic computing skills can be a real barrier in getting a good job. Current solutions (that I've seen enacted in programs!) are keyboards with a tiny lcd screen and palmOS for $200+, so a fully functional laptop with some made-for-3rd-world ruggedizing, solar/handcrank power, etc. concepts built in is a potentially valuable idea.
I find it interesting, however, that (according to http://laptop.media.mit.edu/): "Please note that the $100 laptops--not yet in production--will not be available for sale. The laptops will only be distributed to schools directly through large government initiatives. "
I for one would pay twice the price to get a ruggedized, hand-crankable, low-end, paperback-book-sized laptop. I smell something funny, economically speaking, going on here. Either the hardware cost will be at a loss and there's service/support/gov't contracting fees to balance it, or something else funny. I'd imagine the demand for these in the developed world would be reasonably high, so by doing this he's killing his profits that he could use to improve the design for the developing world...
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Or, y'know, buying a nice, portable-friendly desktop case and a big LCD. Less "portable", sure, but it has a much, much longer upgrade lifespan. I haven't been a hardcore gamer uh... since I stopped being employed fulltime in lieu of travel and grad school, but were I to get back into it, I'd invest in a desktop.
Maybe this was the real reason for Sony's rootkit -- backdoor into computers, then zombie out through them. Then the Sober worm could counteract it... we're getting closer and closer to blanu's Curious Yellow scenario every day...
Hold on, if they cracked this in May and disclosed to the relevant authorities, WTF happened in NOVEMBER when its hundereds of bounces slowed the mail server at my webhost to a grind?
Are they going public now because the authorities haven't done anything?
And for cryin' out loud, do this in a well lit room. Else, the grues might eat you.
Now, this could really be a big seller if asciipr0n.com starts publishing RSS feeds...
Or if you opt not to pay for the "service" ?
OTOH, if this were M$ doing this, I'd be much more concerned, but there's still some competition among the AV vendors, and enough Mac and *nix users that the banks probably won't block them all out for not being able to run some activeX virus control.
Plus, who relies on a web service to check their system for virii? That seems... uh.... mildly stupid, giving admin rights to a web app. I'd presume it'd be signed and whatnot, but still...
Yeah, that's poorly worded -- there are very, very powerful email apps for the Linux Desktop, beyond the emacs/vi/mutt/pine crowd, there's Evolution and Thunderbird (which is my email app of choice). What they really mean is a full Outlook/Exchange groupware system; and there are projects that are working on that as well.
It's true, at least for the office setting. The sad fact is, that as horrible as exchange/outlook is, it's still the best groupware/calendar/directory/email/newsgroup/etc. system out there for most definitions of the word best (easy for users, does what you want it to (again, user-level only), integrates well into the domain, etc. etc.)
I anxiously await improved OSS groupware options (a drop-in replacement and extension of Exchange as well as Outlook)
Well, the Beta was superior technology, so it's no surprise that they last longer...
(that, and they don't get much wear and tear)
Hey, it's longer than you can run most non-server Windows systems for without crashing.
c'mon guys, give 'em some credit!
(j/k)
porn is about opening up new ports, not getting restricted to just one!
fail under normal conditions
:)
Now, obviously MS probably should have expected some people to play the XBox360 non-stop since they got it, but I doubt they considered 72hrs straight as a normal condition when they designed and tested it
(that being said, it's silly that they're having so many problems)
Uh ... does anybody have a torrent of it?
Not to mention September 2005 (http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?ref=g_sea
"Organizations increasingly need to create, store, retrieve and manage rich media files. Those that successfully cultivate a digital asset management environment can cut their associated operational costs in half."
Whoa there cowboy. This is Texas we're talkin' about. Stand down with all that high-falutin' legal talk there. Sony obviously just needs some killin', let it be.
Your. Spelling. Sucks. ;)
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Best. Slashdot Heading. Ever.
To be fair, tho, I'm sure all the NPR Correspondents are already on watch-lists.
Or do us lefties have to constantly switch between stylus-or-navigation buttons? They should just place nav keys on both sides, it'd enable the eventual Katamari port (I can dream, right?)
Seriously, tho, we're 15% of the market (possibly higher among the techie crowd, even), and this device looks to be really horrid for lefty-use, tho otherwise it's an interesting looking gadget. I wonder how video playback is?
http://hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.j sp?vnu_content_id=1001477589 has this quote from Albert:
"I think legislation is absolutely necessary as we are at a critical point as the technology is changing so quickly. Because of the changes in technology, it's so much easier (to pirate) now. What that's doing is encouraging large-scale criminal enterprises to get involved in intellectual property theft, and that involvement is used, quite frankly, to fund terrorist activities. It is a great concern to the Department of Justice and the administration."
Tomorrow: file-traders are non-legal enemy combatants, and can be jailed offshore and tortured?
I, too, am pissed off, and would like my server to turn into a steaming pile of melty plastic. Please link to my complaints about DRM on my blog pls/thx.
Next: Nasa patents "A Method and Process for Using Gravity To Tow Asteroids"
God loses his appeal based on prior art, ends civilization in retaliation.
You make a good point, but the $100 laptop project is specifically because they don't see much value in community cyber-center type models. And the laptop, if there's no internet to begin with in the area, won't make it magically appear.
I feel that community internet access has great value as an initial ramp-up into IT development -- the famous story of Indian farmers with community net access able to bargain for better prices once they can in real time find out the prices that the middleman can sell for, for example. I think in an ideal world also every child gets a laptop, because there's only so much "hacking" you can do at a community center, whereas a laptop in your home, there's some quality exploration time. (And not just for pr0n, either!)
Anyway, don't want to go on, because I think we're basically in agreement; I just wanted to clarify that this specific project is parallel to community internet access, which I think is (a) important and (b) largely enabled by cell phone networks
Technology is not the answer to every problem.
Sure it is, you just have to frame the question differently. e.g.:
Problem: "Our school doesn't have a roof over it!"
Answer: "You should have a fundraiser to buy roofing construction supplies and some alumni to volunteer labor"
Results: New roof for the school, community strengthening, cost of roof spread out among the entire community via the fundraiser.
Whatever. That might be cost effective, sustainable and useful. Really, you should say:
Problem: "Our school doesn't have a roof, we need CAD software, new computers and a trained IT specialist to help us design one!"
Answer: "Let us give your education ministry a loan from the IMF or DevBank to pursue a CAD-in-Schools project, delivering top-of-the-line CAD-capable desktop computers with the latest non-F/LOSS software on it, spending millions of loan-dollars that we'll have to repay later."
Results: New computers in every school which get ruined as they got delivered during the rainy season to schools with no roof.
But seriously. The problem of course is Negroponte can create buzz with a $100 laptop-for-every-child program, whereas "put a roof on every rural school" just doesn't quite get the same level of interest from most folk, despite the fact that the cost would be lower and benefits per cost much higher. Try arguing that for the value of ventilated pit latrines (or, gasp, running water) -- people blink at you, because they don't get the fact that that is a need for many schools in the developing world. Cheap computers, they grok.
This is not in defense, just explanation and frustration from my own experience.
Basically, I agree -- If you're gonna pony up $100US/child, lemme suggest, oh, maybe, a billion better projects you can direct that towards.
On the other hand, if you've got some of the basics, not having basic computing skills can be a real barrier in getting a good job. Current solutions (that I've seen enacted in programs!) are keyboards with a tiny lcd screen and palmOS for $200+, so a fully functional laptop with some made-for-3rd-world ruggedizing, solar/handcrank power, etc. concepts built in is a potentially valuable idea.
I find it interesting, however, that (according to http://laptop.media.mit.edu/):
"Please note that the $100 laptops--not yet in production--will not be available for sale. The laptops will only be distributed to schools directly through large government initiatives. "
I for one would pay twice the price to get a ruggedized, hand-crankable, low-end, paperback-book-sized laptop. I smell something funny, economically speaking, going on here. Either the hardware cost will be at a loss and there's service/support/gov't contracting fees to balance it, or something else funny. I'd imagine the demand for these in the developed world would be reasonably high, so by doing this he's killing his profits that he could use to improve the design for the developing world...
I hear if it's the HDD of a terrorist or leet hax0r, it takes at least 4 years to crack...
That was my thought as well. "Write a product description, research required" seems to me that .65 (or less in some cases) is... piddly?