If players are somehow making 6 figures, why should the writers be making less? There's far more skill involved in writing a game than playing it, but often the developers are highschool students or university co-op making something at least an order of magnitude less than this player...
So by your logic, when there is a *nix box in the American Midwest, hacking a Chinese dept.-of-something server, and a counter-hack has indicated that the commands were executed locally, we should conclude that an American Three-Letter-Agency is hacking China, right? They do have the world's largest standing armed forces, and an crucial economic power, and it woudl be reasonable to believe that they would actually hire hackers to do it right so that this is going to be hard to trace and hard to counterhack.
Dead? I don't see any of the new consoles disappearing. Or the Cell processor for that matter. The original Athlon was like a RISC chip with a CISC ISA. IMO the more correct phrasing would be that CISC and RISC differentiation seized to matter.
Above problems, and thin client solutions aside, there are plenty of software that would detect the presence of VM software. Examples are trying to install games, or Office 2003 on a Win2k on qemu. Sure, it works at near native speed, and I bypassed some problems with a site that insists on IE and Sun Java, but otherwise, there are still limitations. Basically any half-serious anti-cracking tripwires in the program would detect the presence of the VM software and cause problems.
It might have been Crohn's disease. I remember reading this article about this guy who suffered from Crohn's. And there are treatments that involve using parasites to get the immune system to attack the parasites instead, or use some kind of mouse-human chimeric antibody. It's not entirely the case that if you roll around in filth when you're young would prevent you from having allergies, but there are autoimmune diseases that can be treated using what's in the filth.
I would gladly invite you to demonstrate how a compiler is smarter than a human. A compiler is a piece of software that's meant to translate from a human-readable language to machine language (be it raw machine language or assembly), in a reasonable amount of time, giving reasonable amount of performance. There are lots of tricks to optimize the code and what not, but it is still an algorithm that often cannot surpass the ingenuity of a human.
A compiler will not necessarily maximize performance; it's merely meant to give you the best performance without forcing the programmer to write the majority of it in assembly. And a compiler isn't something you can write trivially, and despite gcc's faults, it's pretty damn good. When you set certain flags targeting a certain CPU, it doesn't necessarily mean that it would make the compiler to be smart enough to use all the SIMD extensions available to do what is needed.
And I've got to laugh at all the notions that interpreted languages are approaching native code. BitTorrent uses Python, and running 5 torrents somehow initiates 5 instances of the Python interpreter, each eating up some 35MB of RAM. It forced the CPU usage to go high enough that my CPU cannot sit at a mostly idle 1.29GHz. Java is not that much better. Azureus dealing with 5 torrents eats up 90MB of RAM in total, but luckily it didn't eat up enough CPU to force power management to raise the clock speed.
I would gladly use a C/C+++ GUI torrent client anyday.
He said that if they still made quality products. AFAIK, MiniDiscs were around 1992, which qualifys as the not-so-recent past. I don't see how his comment is contradicting your comments about older Sony devices that worked well.
I got a Sony Vaio laptop from a friend, and the DC plug inside the laptop died promptly just after a year. After fixing that, AC power is kinda flaky and the laptop has basically become useless for me.
About Sony computers that falls apart easily. Friend of mine, who suffered a spinal problem, leaving him rather short and not being to bear much weight on his back, bought this Sony Vaio PCG-R505TS laptop. Promptly after a year, the DC socket on the laptop died, and he phoned up Sony about that, and they told him that since it's out of warranty, they would need to replace the motherboard at the cost of $3000CDN. Eventually, my friend (who was studying as an Electronic Engineer), just soldered a new plug on. He also had to replace the battery, and now the battery is dying, and things a coming apart.
You make a good point that HTML allows some to understand the concept of writing code to accomplish something, instead of click and drag stuff around; the only pity is that most kids nowadays would just use Frontpage (or equivalent) to do their HTML. Back in 1999 (when I was Grade 10), kids were already cheating on writing HTML pages by designing it on Frontpages and removing the comments. At times I think I was the only one who got a decent mark adn wrote the thing by hand. Still, HTML is no programming language.
Apparently a lot of Hong Kongers are willing to do that. The Octopus card (basically an overgrown RFID charge card), as I understand it, was originally intended for paying the various forms of public transportation available. As far as I know, there are 3+ bus systems, 2 subway systems, 1 tram on HK Island, 1 LRT system, 2 shuttle bus system, and taxis. The Octopus card made it possible to pay for public transporation - then they allowed merchants to use the technology to pay for stuff like food. See more at Wikipedia The system isn't a complete cash replacement, but it's pretty hard for you to catch an average Honger without one.
The Americans also did some pretty crasy and sneaky things, like Rhyolite (putting satellites to capture stray internal microwave Russian signals), and send subs to like Sea o Okhotsk and put taps in Russian military cable. If the Chinese suck a bunch of spy gear into Lenovo Thinkpads, the physical ones wouldn't be too hard to detect. They still need to send the information back, and you're pretty much going to find out if you stick it in a faraday cage and analyse all network and EMF signals. If they used software, you can probably just secure wipe the drive. I don't see how putting hardware or software in the laptop would escape easy detection. Afterall, they could just send a couple to the NSA just to see whether it leaks information.
It seems to me that US and Canadian providers are far more interested in selling fancy phones for anyone who wants a monthly plan cell phone. All I've ever demanded of my phone is to dial, store address book, does SMS well, and have good reception. Not all this MP3 playback, or digital camera crap. Heck, the summary of the article alone said that cellphone manufacturers are more than capable and willing to make cellphones that does cellphone functions well. This is in line with UNIX functionality - have a bunch of tools that are good at what it does, and combine them as necessary. I carry my cellphone and my iPod nano normally - the nano excels at music playback, while the cellphone is good at voice and SMS (except that motorola's cell phone OS is a bit laggy and SMS dictionary isn't as good as Nokia's) Had I got this intense need of taking pictures, my digital camera would be in my jacket pocket, or I would've spent the money, get a DSLR, and carry that around. Two of my Asian high school friends in a recent reunion-of-sorts carried these monstrous Nokia cellphones that doubles as a 2MP digital camera. The thing is bulky, and the interface isn't particularly adept at calling out. They're more like cameras with cell phone capabilities grafted on. I could never understand this everything-and-the-kitchen-sink mentality. Perhaps the providers are making money with MP3 ringtones, and MMS picture data that they're more than willing to push these phones to keep the money going. But then if you're taking 2MP pictures, you're more than likely going to use the bluetooth feature on the phone to take the pictures off than paying the provider money to transfer them.
In another study, they said that caffeine can help Ashkenazi women to reduce their risk of getting breast cancer. However, the most effective dosage exceeds 4 cups. Just like anything that a human can ingest, moderation is the key. Try drinking gallons of water in a short period and see whether that would kill you.
I'm moving back to LaTeX and couldn't be happier. I'm only using OO.o in order to deal with those pesky Word documents. I have far less hassle in dealing with bibliographies in papers once I set them up. I don't need to do this mad formating stuff in Word. I just use \cite{}. I could do very nicely formatted math, while I struggled to do this tolerably in Word. Sometimes the oldies are the goodies.
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NSA looked at the code, and deemed there are enough bugs in Vista that a backdoor isn't necessary for the next 10 years.
This has probably been repeated to death, but if I'd remove a DRM, I'd remove it for principle sake. I do not like how you could spend your good earned money (or you student loan money, which you'll have to convert to earned money) on something which you do not have control. Do you pay for a CPU that Intel or AMD's going to tell you that you can't use it on more than 5 different motherboard? Or a bottle of Coke that you can't share with more than 5 people? And even if Apple would send a lawyer and sic me, I'll still say this publicly - I haven't bought any more music from iTunes since I unknowingly upgraded to iTunes 6, and end up stuck with it. I've purchased more when I was using 4 and 5. I didn't mind buying songs at a buck a pop. I did mind when I pay for them and have them be able to dick around with it.
Quit using these "won't somebody please think of the children" excuses on games that are clearly marked Mature. If a parent is irresponsible enough to buy their 10 year old kids GTA or Soldier of Fortune, they'd have to deal with the consequences. All these parents and even prostitute groups needs to stop pushing the responsibility of the parents onto society or game developers that did mark their games according to the ESRB rules.
Asking the BBC, MI5, MI6, and the GCHQ to start paying TV taxes on the computers. I'm sure they won't mind even though the last 3 agencies have plenty of computer power to spread around.
Um... I recently just removed the Home edition (it was a 2002), and installed the Corp edition. It didn't have any noticible change. It may have been the amount of RAM I have - 1GB, but strangely neither Norton Corp or Home drained as much resources as the service installed and auto-started on boot by Matlab. After I removed Matlab, it was so much faster. If you guys are comparing performance in a low RAM situation - I defined this at 256MB for Win2k or above because Windows doesn't really run that well below that - then I might agree with you. But I have been using NAV Home for a long time, and sometimes I try to disable it to see if a CPU intensive game would run faster, and it made no difference.
I dunno about you, but as long as the paycut isn't ridiculously unreasonable, I wouldn't mind doing work that's a bit more stimulating. Happiness depends on how you define it. If earning more money doing something money makes you unhappy, deal with it.
In short, you should not use security through obscurity, and you should grab some network security books to read, and then throw it at your friend. For typical home use, a router would keep the worms and viruses away. If you're not going to use wireless, keep it disabled.
Don't talk to me about all those burnt VCDs that have on screen artifact that didn't exist when I first watched them after I burnt them. Some of them degraded, surprise, about 2 years after being burnt.
What do you mean by CD protection? I'm assuming that you're talking about preventing CD rot, instead of the technology that makes you do the CD shuffle if you play more than a few games. The problem is that current CD-R technology involves photosensitive dies, which when exposed to sunlight and/or heat, the data etched will degrade. Press CDs however, only involve this process when they make the nickel metal master, and the data is pressed into hard polycarbonate, which is the same stuff used on a Nalgene bottle (which you can pour boiling water into, except their older translucent white plastic bottles). So the data in a pressed CD is much more insensitive to the environment. Either you find a dye that's less sensitvie to the environment, but still respond to a laser, or you might have to find another process altogether.
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If players are somehow making 6 figures, why should the writers be making less? There's far more skill involved in writing a game than playing it, but often the developers are highschool students or university co-op making something at least an order of magnitude less than this player...
So by your logic, when there is a *nix box in the American Midwest, hacking a Chinese dept.-of-something server, and a counter-hack has indicated that the commands were executed locally, we should conclude that an American Three-Letter-Agency is hacking China, right?
They do have the world's largest standing armed forces, and an crucial economic power, and it woudl be reasonable to believe that they would actually hire hackers to do it right so that this is going to be hard to trace and hard to counterhack.
Dead? I don't see any of the new consoles disappearing. Or the Cell processor for that matter.
The original Athlon was like a RISC chip with a CISC ISA.
IMO the more correct phrasing would be that CISC and RISC differentiation seized to matter.
Above problems, and thin client solutions aside, there are plenty of software that would detect the presence of VM software. Examples are trying to install games, or Office 2003 on a Win2k on qemu. Sure, it works at near native speed, and I bypassed some problems with a site that insists on IE and Sun Java, but otherwise, there are still limitations.
Basically any half-serious anti-cracking tripwires in the program would detect the presence of the VM software and cause problems.
It might have been Crohn's disease. I remember reading this article about this guy who suffered from Crohn's. And there are treatments that involve using parasites to get the immune system to attack the parasites instead, or use some kind of mouse-human chimeric antibody.
It's not entirely the case that if you roll around in filth when you're young would prevent you from having allergies, but there are autoimmune diseases that can be treated using what's in the filth.
I would gladly invite you to demonstrate how a compiler is smarter than a human.
A compiler is a piece of software that's meant to translate from a human-readable language to machine language (be it raw machine language or assembly), in a reasonable amount of time, giving reasonable amount of performance.
There are lots of tricks to optimize the code and what not, but it is still an algorithm that often cannot surpass the ingenuity of a human.
A compiler will not necessarily maximize performance; it's merely meant to give you the best performance without forcing the programmer to write the majority of it in assembly. And a compiler isn't something you can write trivially, and despite gcc's faults, it's pretty damn good.
When you set certain flags targeting a certain CPU, it doesn't necessarily mean that it would make the compiler to be smart enough to use all the SIMD extensions available to do what is needed.
And I've got to laugh at all the notions that interpreted languages are approaching native code. BitTorrent uses Python, and running 5 torrents somehow initiates 5 instances of the Python interpreter, each eating up some 35MB of RAM. It forced the CPU usage to go high enough that my CPU cannot sit at a mostly idle 1.29GHz. Java is not that much better. Azureus dealing with 5 torrents eats up 90MB of RAM in total, but luckily it didn't eat up enough CPU to force power management to raise the clock speed.
I would gladly use a C/C+++ GUI torrent client anyday.
He said that if they still made quality products.
AFAIK, MiniDiscs were around 1992, which qualifys as the not-so-recent past. I don't see how his comment is contradicting your comments about older Sony devices that worked well.
I got a Sony Vaio laptop from a friend, and the DC plug inside the laptop died promptly just after a year. After fixing that, AC power is kinda flaky and the laptop has basically become useless for me.
About Sony computers that falls apart easily.
Friend of mine, who suffered a spinal problem, leaving him rather short and not being to bear much weight on his back, bought this Sony Vaio PCG-R505TS laptop.
Promptly after a year, the DC socket on the laptop died, and he phoned up Sony about that, and they told him that since it's out of warranty, they would need to replace the motherboard at the cost of $3000CDN.
Eventually, my friend (who was studying as an Electronic Engineer), just soldered a new plug on.
He also had to replace the battery, and now the battery is dying, and things a coming apart.
You make a good point that HTML allows some to understand the concept of writing code to accomplish something, instead of click and drag stuff around; the only pity is that most kids nowadays would just use Frontpage (or equivalent) to do their HTML.
Back in 1999 (when I was Grade 10), kids were already cheating on writing HTML pages by designing it on Frontpages and removing the comments. At times I think I was the only one who got a decent mark adn wrote the thing by hand.
Still, HTML is no programming language.
Apparently a lot of Hong Kongers are willing to do that.
The Octopus card (basically an overgrown RFID charge card), as I understand it, was originally intended for paying the various forms of public transportation available. As far as I know, there are 3+ bus systems, 2 subway systems, 1 tram on HK Island, 1 LRT system, 2 shuttle bus system, and taxis. The Octopus card made it possible to pay for public transporation - then they allowed merchants to use the technology to pay for stuff like food. See more at Wikipedia
The system isn't a complete cash replacement, but it's pretty hard for you to catch an average Honger without one.
Name a card with half decent 3D support with open source drivers.
I know that pretty much ended sometime after ATI Radeon 9000...
But most of those women were pretty regular, I would assume.
The Americans also did some pretty crasy and sneaky things, like Rhyolite (putting satellites to capture stray internal microwave Russian signals), and send subs to like Sea o Okhotsk and put taps in Russian military cable.
If the Chinese suck a bunch of spy gear into Lenovo Thinkpads, the physical ones wouldn't be too hard to detect. They still need to send the information back, and you're pretty much going to find out if you stick it in a faraday cage and analyse all network and EMF signals. If they used software, you can probably just secure wipe the drive. I don't see how putting hardware or software in the laptop would escape easy detection. Afterall, they could just send a couple to the NSA just to see whether it leaks information.
It seems to me that US and Canadian providers are far more interested in selling fancy phones for anyone who wants a monthly plan cell phone.
All I've ever demanded of my phone is to dial, store address book, does SMS well, and have good reception. Not all this MP3 playback, or digital camera crap. Heck, the summary of the article alone said that cellphone manufacturers are more than capable and willing to make cellphones that does cellphone functions well. This is in line with UNIX functionality - have a bunch of tools that are good at what it does, and combine them as necessary. I carry my cellphone and my iPod nano normally - the nano excels at music playback, while the cellphone is good at voice and SMS (except that motorola's cell phone OS is a bit laggy and SMS dictionary isn't as good as Nokia's) Had I got this intense need of taking pictures, my digital camera would be in my jacket pocket, or I would've spent the money, get a DSLR, and carry that around.
Two of my Asian high school friends in a recent reunion-of-sorts carried these monstrous Nokia cellphones that doubles as a 2MP digital camera. The thing is bulky, and the interface isn't particularly adept at calling out. They're more like cameras with cell phone capabilities grafted on. I could never understand this everything-and-the-kitchen-sink mentality.
Perhaps the providers are making money with MP3 ringtones, and MMS picture data that they're more than willing to push these phones to keep the money going. But then if you're taking 2MP pictures, you're more than likely going to use the bluetooth feature on the phone to take the pictures off than paying the provider money to transfer them.
In another study, they said that caffeine can help Ashkenazi women to reduce their risk of getting breast cancer. However, the most effective dosage exceeds 4 cups.
Just like anything that a human can ingest, moderation is the key. Try drinking gallons of water in a short period and see whether that would kill you.
I'm moving back to LaTeX and couldn't be happier. I'm only using OO.o in order to deal with those pesky Word documents.
I have far less hassle in dealing with bibliographies in papers once I set them up. I don't need to do this mad formating stuff in Word. I just use \cite{}. I could do very nicely formatted math, while I struggled to do this tolerably in Word.
Sometimes the oldies are the goodies.
NSA looked at the code, and deemed there are enough bugs in Vista that a backdoor isn't necessary for the next 10 years.
This has probably been repeated to death, but if I'd remove a DRM, I'd remove it for principle sake.
I do not like how you could spend your good earned money (or you student loan money, which you'll have to convert to earned money) on something which you do not have control. Do you pay for a CPU that Intel or AMD's going to tell you that you can't use it on more than 5 different motherboard? Or a bottle of Coke that you can't share with more than 5 people?
And even if Apple would send a lawyer and sic me, I'll still say this publicly - I haven't bought any more music from iTunes since I unknowingly upgraded to iTunes 6, and end up stuck with it. I've purchased more when I was using 4 and 5. I didn't mind buying songs at a buck a pop. I did mind when I pay for them and have them be able to dick around with it.
Quit using these "won't somebody please think of the children" excuses on games that are clearly marked Mature. If a parent is irresponsible enough to buy their 10 year old kids GTA or Soldier of Fortune, they'd have to deal with the consequences. All these parents and even prostitute groups needs to stop pushing the responsibility of the parents onto society or game developers that did mark their games according to the ESRB rules.
Asking the BBC, MI5, MI6, and the GCHQ to start paying TV taxes on the computers. I'm sure they won't mind even though the last 3 agencies have plenty of computer power to spread around.
Um...
I recently just removed the Home edition (it was a 2002), and installed the Corp edition. It didn't have any noticible change. It may have been the amount of RAM I have - 1GB, but strangely neither Norton Corp or Home drained as much resources as the service installed and auto-started on boot by Matlab. After I removed Matlab, it was so much faster.
If you guys are comparing performance in a low RAM situation - I defined this at 256MB for Win2k or above because Windows doesn't really run that well below that - then I might agree with you. But I have been using NAV Home for a long time, and sometimes I try to disable it to see if a CPU intensive game would run faster, and it made no difference.
I dunno about you, but as long as the paycut isn't ridiculously unreasonable, I wouldn't mind doing work that's a bit more stimulating.
Happiness depends on how you define it. If earning more money doing something money makes you unhappy, deal with it.
In short, you should not use security through obscurity, and you should grab some network security books to read, and then throw it at your friend.
For typical home use, a router would keep the worms and viruses away. If you're not going to use wireless, keep it disabled.
Don't talk to me about all those burnt VCDs that have on screen artifact that didn't exist when I first watched them after I burnt them. Some of them degraded, surprise, about 2 years after being burnt.
What do you mean by CD protection?
I'm assuming that you're talking about preventing CD rot, instead of the technology that makes you do the CD shuffle if you play more than a few games.
The problem is that current CD-R technology involves photosensitive dies, which when exposed to sunlight and/or heat, the data etched will degrade. Press CDs however, only involve this process when they make the nickel metal master, and the data is pressed into hard polycarbonate, which is the same stuff used on a Nalgene bottle (which you can pour boiling water into, except their older translucent white plastic bottles). So the data in a pressed CD is much more insensitive to the environment.
Either you find a dye that's less sensitvie to the environment, but still respond to a laser, or you might have to find another process altogether.