Can you imagine the flamewars that take place between M$ staff? This issue with Pidgin is tiny in comparison to development issues faced in larger projects.
I don't know if the Games for Windows / Xbox Live both cost money, or they are one in the same.
For the sake of this reply, I will assume that they are one in the same.
After so many years of Quake having a freely usable game finder, why is it that Microsoft decided to charge for their service? Yes, I have an account for my 360, but at the end of the day, the only major differences I see are that you can manage friend lists much like MSN, and chat via headset, which is also not a new technology. WoW users use that freeware voice chat server/client setup.
So at the end of the day, of course competitors are going to provide the same services for free, because afterall, it's about the games, not the services.
Action like this is highly unlikely, because within our legal system they cannot (rather, should not) take action with the assumption that you are guilty without first having a full judgement.
If there were in fact a judgement, given the speed of our legal system, it would be shut down three years from now.
I run a security consulting business, and one of the things we do is CCTV Camera Systems.
Most of our clients are hell-bent on having internet access so that they can remotely view and control their cameras, card access systems, and PA systems.
Although it is possible to hack these systems, it is a remote chance if configured properly like anything else.
My guess is that these incidents are with default usernames and passwords on the DVR and other equipment.
However, my question is: how did they find the IP of a target store? It's one thing to want to rob a store, but it's another to know this type of sensitive information. And in many cases, even large stores are using DSL or Cable where they get a dynamic IP.
I never said 'William Shatner was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec and therefore is the sole property of the Dominion of Canada'
Someone had said 'he's from Canada, isn't he?'
So using your logic, Colonel Sanders lived out his retirement in Canada, does that mean Kentucky Fried Chicken should be renamed to Canadian Fried Chicken because he 'exported'?
Agreed. And it's also worth noting that Canada has the highest percent per capita of High-End Home Theatre Systems and DVD Sales.
I download movies, and decide whether I would like to own a copy. I own over 100 DVD's, and am not against purchasing a good movie I would like to watch again, and also to support the filmmakers who don't make typical garbage!
FYI: You can find this statistic information on Industry Canada's Site somewhere, CBC had made a report on this about 8 months ago.
I know it's almost impossible to implement.. because the human condition is one of greed in many cases. I want to supercede my peers in success, and that in itself goes against the said theory.
It's a wonderful theory, it has so many positives, but also so many flaws.
The only way it would work is in 'Star Trek Theory' -- imagine if replicators actually existed? Monetary Assets would be nil, and people would work for knowledge instead of belongings among other things.
If the human race is to survive: social, financial, and physical elements must be equalized.
Why?
Ever notice how quickly poor and undernourished people reproduce? As an instinct for survival of their genes.
By equalizing Social Elements, racism and separation of social elements will dwindle, thus providing people with a positive existence, and resulting in more commonalities such as knowledge sharing, and working toward common goals. By equalizing Financial Elements, the human existence will focus heavier upon the right to live, the right to exist, and will therefore work toward a common goal. By equalizing physical elements such as starvation and poor water supplies (resulting from the above) -- people will survive, and will reproduce less.
Humanity will work towards common goals, and will lessen outright demented war efforts and we will find ways to solve our common problems such as the environment, and our reaching out into space.
You mean to tell me that parsing a file at an average of 200k of data is too slow on 1.0+GHz processors?
OPTIMIZE YOUR CODE!
I know that there are many variables here, but seriously... how slow can it be? I use OpenOffice 2.0 on an Athlon64 3200+ and I have no issues, in fact, I find it much quicker than M$ Office
My point is that overbearing commercialism is eroding society, especially in this case of potentially forcing a commercial upon a viewer.
This will bring forward many new issues:
e.g. A commercial that offends me, that I am forced to watch... can you say lawsuit?
The advertiser can no longer say "then don't watch it"
You're right. I actually never thought about that. How interesting that they made so many product references back then, but got away with it because it was just so suave in how it was delivered.
What upsets me about commercialism nowadays is that it's obnoxious; yes, Fred and Barney stopped for a smooth and rich Marlboro break, but they never said "Smoke these, and girls will love you, you disgusting bastard!". Commercialism nowadays tells you that Axe Deodorant makes you attractive, and girls' makeup is necessary, or you'll be ugly.
There is a large difference in 4 decades, and it has created a society of addicts and dependants on what the next fad is, we don't have a freedom of choice anymore.
I remember in the early 80's here in Canada, Rogers Cable offered "Pay Television" whereby you pay them for a cable hookup, and enjoy television without commercials... that's why it costed money. The rabbit ears hookup only showed commercials for the sake of covering broadcasting costs.
What happened? How incredibly greedy can people become? Television shows make millions, and cable providers make millions, etc. etc.
I remember they once talked about showing ads while shows aired, an almost Truman Show-esque "Joey drinks Coca-Cola" while watching Friends.
And now they wonder why people pirate television programs, movies, games, music, etc.? Because it has become not only inconvenient to watch, use, or play due to the number of advertisements in everything nowadays, but we are PAYING for them.
Just like buying clothes at the Gap, and billboarding their logo to everyone, what's next? Car Insurance companies will require you to paste their logo on your car? Or how about when you see the dentist? Will they make you wear a hat pointing downward saying "This smile brought to you by Dr. Dentafark".
Now possibly moving outward to an off-topic, but people question why youth today are so different, have a look at how many advertisements they see, and wear every day!
Considering the enormous amount of innovation which has taken place over the past 100 years, from widespread electricity, to faster transportation, telephones, radio, television, computational devices to commputer networks to mainframes, drugs and medical advancements, surveillance via camera to satellite... I can go on.
What will happen as new innovation continues, is essentially the wrapping-up of these new technologies into functional packages, i.e. onboard USEFUL computers for cars, better communication and record keeping in hospitals.
The base technologies which we now work with daily will become more refined, and as such, will become more accessible. Sometimes, the best innovation is to take an existing product and improve upon it.
As far as social innovation, this is inevitable; our smaller planet due to globalization will change in a big way as time passes, from balance of wealth to equal rights, to widespread democracy / democratic socialism / democratic monarchy / democratic monopoly -- we will continue to change.
What is software? It isn't a new technology, it's a new solution, and the solution can be applied as such.
When I would have been about 14, a friend and I disassembled an ST-225 MFM Hard Drive, which we had running on an RLL controller to get however extra MBytes out of it. (not many)
Anyhow, we pulled the top off, since it had so many bad sectors, it was amazing... and did a low-level format while it was open, worked for awhile...
Until I sneezed on it.:)
Thought I'd share that one as a playful warning to not be an idiot with a drive open.
Why didn't they do more in-depth burn-in tests of these?
I mean, sure, defects are common in manufacturing, but something as simple to detect as overheating? With a unit of this cost, one would think that their engineering team would have, at the very least, warned that overheating 'may' be an issue.
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Can you imagine the flamewars that take place between M$ staff? This issue with Pidgin is tiny in comparison to development issues faced in larger projects.
Actually, it hit as far as Ontario Canada
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/415921
Uhmm. So this is a classified project?
Then why do we know about it?
I don't know if the Games for Windows / Xbox Live both cost money, or they are one in the same.
For the sake of this reply, I will assume that they are one in the same.
After so many years of Quake having a freely usable game finder, why is it that Microsoft decided to charge for their service? Yes, I have an account for my 360, but at the end of the day, the only major differences I see are that you can manage friend lists much like MSN, and chat via headset, which is also not a new technology. WoW users use that freeware voice chat server/client setup.
So at the end of the day, of course competitors are going to provide the same services for free, because afterall, it's about the games, not the services.
Action like this is highly unlikely, because within our legal system they cannot (rather, should not) take action with the assumption that you are guilty without first having a full judgement.
If there were in fact a judgement, given the speed of our legal system, it would be shut down three years from now.
I run a security consulting business, and one of the things we do is CCTV Camera Systems.
Most of our clients are hell-bent on having internet access so that they can remotely view and control their cameras, card access systems, and PA systems.
Although it is possible to hack these systems, it is a remote chance if configured properly like anything else.
My guess is that these incidents are with default usernames and passwords on the DVR and other equipment.
However, my question is: how did they find the IP of a target store?
It's one thing to want to rob a store, but it's another to know this type of sensitive information.
And in many cases, even large stores are using DSL or Cable where they get a dynamic IP.
Sounds like an inside job to me.
See, this is what is interesting.
.NET -> Mono compatability.
All of the responses have been targeted at
Who says they have to be compatible?
I'm looking for an alternative framework that doesn't cost me an arm and a leg, actually *is* multiplatform, and I am comfortable in.
To be a good alternative does not mean backwards compatability with Microsoft.
Although VB, C#, etc etc will change and whatnot, why can't the Mono project make their own turns and directions?
It's pretty sad.
On the other hand, there is always the Mono Project (www.mono-project.org)
It even has a Visual Basic Compiler.
Yes, it's not ready for primetime yet (imo), but it looks very promising.
Microsoft's actions will just result in more 3rd party and OSS development.
I never said 'William Shatner was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec and therefore is the sole property of the Dominion of Canada'
Someone had said 'he's from Canada, isn't he?'
So using your logic, Colonel Sanders lived out his retirement in Canada, does that mean Kentucky Fried Chicken should be renamed to Canadian Fried Chicken because he 'exported'?
Just food for thought.
He was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec
Remember "PayTV"?
Back in the day here in Canada, the first cable companies called their service "PayTV", no commercials.
It was advertised that commercials were necessary for each network to pay for their broadcasting charges in maintaining towers and whatnot.
But soon enough, they saw money.
And the same will happen to Satellite Radio.
Agreed.
And it's also worth noting that Canada has the highest percent per capita of High-End Home Theatre Systems and DVD Sales.
I download movies, and decide whether I would like to own a copy. I own over 100 DVD's, and am not against purchasing a good movie I would like to watch again, and also to support the filmmakers who don't make typical garbage!
FYI: You can find this statistic information on Industry Canada's Site somewhere, CBC had made a report on this about 8 months ago.
Agreed.
I know it's almost impossible to implement.. because the human condition is one of greed in many cases. I want to supercede my peers in success, and that in itself goes against the said theory.
It's a wonderful theory, it has so many positives, but also so many flaws.
The only way it would work is in 'Star Trek Theory' -- imagine if replicators actually existed? Monetary Assets would be nil, and people would work for knowledge instead of belongings among other things.
If the human race is to survive: social, financial, and physical elements must be equalized.
Why?
Ever notice how quickly poor and undernourished people reproduce? As an instinct for survival of their genes.
By equalizing Social Elements, racism and separation of social elements will dwindle, thus providing people with a positive existence, and resulting in more commonalities such as knowledge sharing, and working toward common goals.
By equalizing Financial Elements, the human existence will focus heavier upon the right to live, the right to exist, and will therefore work toward a common goal.
By equalizing physical elements such as starvation and poor water supplies (resulting from the above) -- people will survive, and will reproduce less.
Humanity will work towards common goals, and will lessen outright demented war efforts and we will find ways to solve our common problems such as the environment, and our reaching out into space.
You mean to tell me that parsing a file at an average of 200k of data is too slow on 1.0+GHz processors?
OPTIMIZE YOUR CODE!
I know that there are many variables here, but seriously... how slow can it be? I use OpenOffice 2.0 on an Athlon64 3200+ and I have no issues, in fact, I find it much quicker than M$ Office
I do understand free market.
My point is that overbearing commercialism is eroding society, especially in this case of potentially forcing a commercial upon a viewer.
This will bring forward many new issues:
e.g. A commercial that offends me, that I am forced to watch... can you say lawsuit?
The advertiser can no longer say "then don't watch it"
You're right. I actually never thought about that. How interesting that they made so many product references back then, but got away with it because it was just so suave in how it was delivered.
What upsets me about commercialism nowadays is that it's obnoxious; yes, Fred and Barney stopped for a smooth and rich Marlboro break, but they never said "Smoke these, and girls will love you, you disgusting bastard!". Commercialism nowadays tells you that Axe Deodorant makes you attractive, and girls' makeup is necessary, or you'll be ugly.
There is a large difference in 4 decades, and it has created a society of addicts and dependants on what the next fad is, we don't have a freedom of choice anymore.
Farking Great!
I remember in the early 80's here in Canada, Rogers Cable offered "Pay Television" whereby you pay them for a cable hookup, and enjoy television without commercials... that's why it costed money. The rabbit ears hookup only showed commercials for the sake of covering broadcasting costs.
What happened? How incredibly greedy can people become? Television shows make millions, and cable providers make millions, etc. etc.
I remember they once talked about showing ads while shows aired, an almost Truman Show-esque "Joey drinks Coca-Cola" while watching Friends.
And now they wonder why people pirate television programs, movies, games, music, etc.? Because it has become not only inconvenient to watch, use, or play due to the number of advertisements in everything nowadays, but we are PAYING for them.
Just like buying clothes at the Gap, and billboarding their logo to everyone, what's next? Car Insurance companies will require you to paste their logo on your car? Or how about when you see the dentist? Will they make you wear a hat pointing downward saying "This smile brought to you by Dr. Dentafark".
Now possibly moving outward to an off-topic, but people question why youth today are so different, have a look at how many advertisements they see, and wear every day!
Considering the enormous amount of innovation which has taken place over the past 100 years, from widespread electricity, to faster transportation, telephones, radio, television, computational devices to commputer networks to mainframes, drugs and medical advancements, surveillance via camera to satellite... I can go on.
What will happen as new innovation continues, is essentially the wrapping-up of these new technologies into functional packages, i.e. onboard USEFUL computers for cars, better communication and record keeping in hospitals.
The base technologies which we now work with daily will become more refined, and as such, will become more accessible. Sometimes, the best innovation is to take an existing product and improve upon it.
As far as social innovation, this is inevitable; our smaller planet due to globalization will change in a big way as time passes, from balance of wealth to equal rights, to widespread democracy / democratic socialism / democratic monarchy / democratic monopoly -- we will continue to change.
What is software? It isn't a new technology, it's a new solution, and the solution can be applied as such.
Except for Halo 2 only for Vista, which I have a feeling lots of other apps will follow suit to.
When I would have been about 14, a friend and I disassembled an ST-225 MFM Hard Drive, which we had running on an RLL controller to get however extra MBytes out of it. (not many)
:)
Anyhow, we pulled the top off, since it had so many bad sectors, it was amazing... and did a low-level format while it was open, worked for awhile...
Until I sneezed on it.
Thought I'd share that one as a playful warning to not be an idiot with a drive open.
correct. :)
As if Microsoft is manufacturing their own though...
As said in a later post, don't you think they would have thoroughly tested these and seen an overheat as a strong possibility in many units?
Now, I wonder...
Why didn't they do more in-depth burn-in tests of these?
I mean, sure, defects are common in manufacturing, but something as simple to detect as overheating?
With a unit of this cost, one would think that their engineering team would have, at the very least, warned that overheating 'may' be an issue.
And sadly, it's probably a better quality fix than MS would provide on Warranty