Absolutely. This is something that's been bugging me for quite some time. I've had EPROMs which have (fortunately) held data for about 21 years (at which point I cloned them, just in case). Others aren't so lucky - machines like the Sony APR series are notorious for the control program dissolving and either rendering the machine useless, or crashing and shredding the master tape. And that's with 1980s-era die sizes - with the process shrink, things with flash firmware are just going to turn to crap in considerably less time.
That seems like a LOT more of a pain in the butt than simply turning off the secure boot option. In fact, it would be a deal breaker for any of my Linux machines that must be able to reboot unattended every time. It's a "solution" to a trumped up problem. There are plenty of legit reasons to hate Microsoft, but this isn't one of them.
The worry is that the whole 'disable secure boot' thing might go away, and where will we be then?
As for the unattended reboots: To facilitate repeat booting (and to make the pre-bootloader useful for booting hard disks as well as USB keys or DVDs) the pre-bootloader will also check to see if the platform is booting in Setup Mode and if it is, will ask the user for permission to install the signature of loader.efi into the authorized signatures database. If the user gives permission, the signature will be installed and loader.efi will then boot up without any present user tests on all subsequent occasions even after the platform is placed back into secure boot mode.
First Microsoft just bundled a web browser and threatened to take away OEMs's Windows licenses if they dared to uninstall it and/or bundle Netscape instead. Next it integrated Internet Explorer into the operating system so you didn't have a choice but to use it one way or another. That's clearly anti-competitive behaviour and they were rightly punished for it.
Most importantly, it gave them the ability to add extensions that would only ever work on IE on i386. ActiveX plugins and the like. And it worked - so well that some businesses are still stuck on IE6. The best part was that once they had actually destroyed Netscape, Microsoft disbanded the IE development team and stopped actively developing it. All this was the kind of lock-in that the EU was trying to prevent, but the process took too long.
Fortunately things managed to right themselves somehow, with Netscape returning from the dead as Mozilla (and I still remember lots of people saying it would never work, and that it was a crock of shit), but the whole 'Only works on IE' thing persisted for a long, long time. It's only really the success of iOS and Android which has finally made people realise that making a site that only works on Windows is a Bad Idea.
there's this little company called Google that has this thing called ChromeOS. it is EXACTLY this... an OS that boots into a browser. it's not lighting the world on fire either.
IMHO, making the ChromeOS device be an x86 machine that costsas much as a real laptop (and more than some!) was the worst mistake. If it had been an ARM device that sold for peanuts it could have panned out quite nicely.
Well, the brits do all sorts of weird things. They measure weight in stone, talk about distance in miles, but they talk about height in meters.
Officially we use grams and kilograms and that's what's taught in school, at least as far back as the '80s. Petrol and most other liquids are sold in litres or millilitres. However we do still use miles, MPH and MPG when talking about distances.
Whether you like Metro or not, Windows 8 will be shipping on all Desktops and Laptops in the Fall, and will be a viable platform with an immediate install base. As bad as Vista was, it still managed to find its way on more computers than Mac OSX. Developers *will* code for Windows 8, they *will* code for Windows RT, and if the marginal benefit is in their favor they *will* code for Windows Phone 8.
I rather suspect they'll continue coding for Windows 7 or even XP so to have the widest install base. Enterprise clients in particular hate having to upgrade, so jumping in and making something that only works on Metro is a non-starter.
just go android already. keep the bb email system and bb messenger and the coporate guys would be fine with it. and get all the android apps the users would be happy about.
It took RIM long enough to port that stuff to QNX, and now they should start all over again..? That's what brought Nokia to its knees.
Actually, it seems to be something like a modified version of Fedora running inside their own hypervisor, with Fedora modified to run some processes inside sandboxes provided by the hypervisor. I think that's what it is, but I'm not completely sure.
That day will be when the iPad plugs into a "docking station" and acts as the "cpu" and an external keyboard, mouse, display and storage (HDD, SSD, etc) connect to it through the docking station.
Doesn't iOS have a sandboxed architecture where applications are restricted to their own private workspace? How's that going to work for a developer toolchain?
And there was me agreeing with GP, not realising that the iPhone is actually geared towards recording studio professionals.
Be that as it may, most random programs about bands in the studio always have a clip of the tape machine rolling (because it looks more interesting than someone clicking on 'Render' in Pro Tools or whatever) and why BBC News always seem to dig out their stock footage of a Nagra SNN each time some kind of secret phone call recording is mentioned...
Electronic musicians love their gadgets and now that we don't fiddle with actual knobs and sliders anymore, we still like to be reminded of them in the UI. Still, I don't think this represent "an unwillingness to move forward". Maybe part nostalgia and part the fact that these devices looked great and inspired you to play them.
Personally, nothing irks me more in the musician world than seeing some new synthesizer advertised and then realising it's just a plugin instead of hardware. This is made worse by the fact that the real manufacturers have been using renderings of their kit instead of photos.
I have to say I fall on the side of saying that skeuomorphic design is bad. The classic one is the latest iPhone podcast app which looks like an old reel to reel tape recorder. I mean I'm in my mid 40s, and I only saw one of these once when I was a tiny child, and even then it was obsolete.
Only in the home. They're still used in the better studios, and I think you'll find Otari still sell the MX5050 new.
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Absolutely. This is something that's been bugging me for quite some time. I've had EPROMs which have (fortunately) held data for about 21 years (at which point I cloned them, just in case). Others aren't so lucky - machines like the Sony APR series are notorious for the control program dissolving and either rendering the machine useless, or crashing and shredding the master tape. And that's with 1980s-era die sizes - with the process shrink, things with flash firmware are just going to turn to crap in considerably less time.
Ah well that's not so bad, then. The linked article which I quoted doesn't go into that much detail and makes it sound worse than it apparently is.
There are two articles in the summary, the second one - the announcement - has more detail.
That seems like a LOT more of a pain in the butt than simply turning off the secure boot option. In fact, it would be a deal breaker for any of my Linux machines that must be able to reboot unattended every time. It's a "solution" to a trumped up problem. There are plenty of legit reasons to hate Microsoft, but this isn't one of them.
The worry is that the whole 'disable secure boot' thing might go away, and where will we be then?
As for the unattended reboots:
To facilitate repeat booting (and to make the pre-bootloader useful for booting hard disks as well as USB keys or DVDs) the pre-bootloader will also check to see if the platform is booting in Setup Mode and if it is, will ask the user for permission to install the signature of loader.efi into the authorized signatures database. If the user gives permission, the signature will be installed and loader.efi will then boot up without any present user tests on all subsequent occasions even after the platform is placed back into secure boot mode.
First Microsoft just bundled a web browser and threatened to take away OEMs's Windows licenses if they dared to uninstall it and/or bundle Netscape instead. Next it integrated Internet Explorer into the operating system so you didn't have a choice but to use it one way or another. That's clearly anti-competitive behaviour and they were rightly punished for it.
Most importantly, it gave them the ability to add extensions that would only ever work on IE on i386. ActiveX plugins and the like. And it worked - so well that some businesses are still stuck on IE6. The best part was that once they had actually destroyed Netscape, Microsoft disbanded the IE development team and stopped actively developing it. All this was the kind of lock-in that the EU was trying to prevent, but the process took too long.
Fortunately things managed to right themselves somehow, with Netscape returning from the dead as Mozilla (and I still remember lots of people saying it would never work, and that it was a crock of shit), but the whole 'Only works on IE' thing persisted for a long, long time. It's only really the success of iOS and Android which has finally made people realise that making a site that only works on Windows is a Bad Idea.
What do the studios record at?
I believe it's 24/96 or 24/192 mostly.
there's this little company called Google that has this thing called ChromeOS. it is EXACTLY this ... an OS that boots into a browser. it's not lighting the world on fire either.
IMHO, making the ChromeOS device be an x86 machine that costsas much as a real laptop (and more than some!) was the worst mistake. If it had been an ARM device that sold for peanuts it could have panned out quite nicely.
YouTube has a much better video than the one linked in the article that contains the process they went through and talks about the capture and projection intended by the inventor.
I was going to provide the original link to the National Media Museum (which for the curious is here: http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/PlanAVisit/Exhibitions/LeeAndTurner.aspx ) ...but it's the same video anyway.
What intrigues me is that they apparently blew it to 35mm first instead of going straight to digital.
Oh please. It's the developer's fault that most people don't want to spend $500 for a phone?
Yes. Doom got people buying £500 PCs, so clearly they aren't trying hard enough ;-)
Well, the brits do all sorts of weird things. They measure weight in stone, talk about distance in miles, but they talk about height in meters.
Officially we use grams and kilograms and that's what's taught in school, at least as far back as the '80s. Petrol and most other liquids are sold in litres or millilitres. However we do still use miles, MPH and MPG when talking about distances.
Whether you like Metro or not, Windows 8 will be shipping on all Desktops and Laptops in the Fall, and will be a viable platform with an immediate install base. As bad as Vista was, it still managed to find its way on more computers than Mac OSX. Developers *will* code for Windows 8, they *will* code for Windows RT, and if the marginal benefit is in their favor they *will* code for Windows Phone 8.
I rather suspect they'll continue coding for Windows 7 or even XP so to have the widest install base. Enterprise clients in particular hate having to upgrade, so jumping in and making something that only works on Metro is a non-starter.
just go android already. keep the bb email system and bb messenger and the coporate guys would be fine with it. and get all the android apps the users would be happy about.
It took RIM long enough to port that stuff to QNX, and now they should start all over again..? That's what brought Nokia to its knees.
That line is getting REALLY tired...
Normally I'd agree, but Apple's recent behaviour has made legal action over similar-looking devices very much a legitimate concern.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-tegra-4-wayne-arm-a15,15261.html
By 2013, NVidia's Tegra 4 gonna be out.
It's rumored to have a Kepler GPU and run 10 times the performance of Tegra2, more or less the equivalent to the TI-chip the Blackberry is based on.
What's the power consumption on that going to be like?
They're called 'Valve' so it will be made using vacuum tubes.
Actually, it seems to be something like a modified version of Fedora running inside their own hypervisor, with Fedora modified to run some processes inside sandboxes provided by the hypervisor. I think that's what it is, but I'm not completely sure.
I'm not sure, but it seems to have a Fedora base. Talks about KDE a lot. See also: http://wiki.qubes-os.org/trac/wiki/InstallNvidiaDriver
That day will be when the iPad plugs into a "docking station" and acts as the "cpu" and an external keyboard, mouse, display and storage (HDD, SSD, etc) connect to it through the docking station.
Doesn't iOS have a sandboxed architecture where applications are restricted to their own private workspace? How's that going to work for a developer toolchain?
You mean like in This 1955 Disney exhibition film?
The relevant part starts from about 39:00 to the end of the video. Sadly none of it's happened, especially the atomic tunnelling machine.
Okay, so they got them from Sweden, where they aren't extinct, but still: http://www.ospreys.org.uk/
Reintroducing wolves in Scotland has also been talked about, but it's not clear how well that would work out.
And there was me agreeing with GP, not realising that the iPhone is actually geared towards recording studio professionals.
Be that as it may, most random programs about bands in the studio always have a clip of the tape machine rolling (because it looks more interesting than someone clicking on 'Render' in Pro Tools or whatever) and why BBC News always seem to dig out their stock footage of a Nagra SNN each time some kind of secret phone call recording is mentioned...
Electronic musicians love their gadgets and now that we don't fiddle with actual knobs and sliders anymore, we still like to be reminded of them in the UI.
Still, I don't think this represent "an unwillingness to move forward". Maybe part nostalgia and part the fact that these devices looked great and inspired you to play them.
Personally, nothing irks me more in the musician world than seeing some new synthesizer advertised and then realising it's just a plugin instead of hardware. This is made worse by the fact that the real manufacturers have been using renderings of their kit instead of photos.
I have to say I fall on the side of saying that skeuomorphic design is bad. The classic one is the latest iPhone podcast app which looks like an old reel to reel tape recorder. I mean I'm in my mid 40s, and I only saw one of these once when I was a tiny child, and even then it was obsolete.
Only in the home. They're still used in the better studios, and I think you'll find Otari still sell the MX5050 new.
AFAIK it's used for connectors a lot because it doesn't corrode.
Why spend $2k on a pc rig, in order to play a game that I can play for free on onlive?
Aren't they dead?
Not Psygonis or Psygnonis.
Please shows some respect and check spelling of last names and company names at the very least. Basic Editor skillz, rigot?
I remember being disappointed when I realised they weren't called PSYCHOSIS Software. That's what it looked like on the Lemmings box art, anyway.