To say there are "members" and a "hierarchy" or even an actual group called "Anonymous" in any normal sense of the word reveals a lack of understanding of the phenomena.
Phenomena? It's just a bunch of groups (with or without interchanging members) that operate under the same name. Looking at 'Anonymous' in the context of any one operation clearly reveals a 'group'. If it were just a collection of people attempting to achieve a common goal then the operations would not be coordinated, you can't coordinate such an attack (time, target, and even the cancellation of an operation) without some organisational hierarchy.
I don't see why we get 2-3 stories a day about the kinect, and Slashdot should be able to see by now that stories that only get 30 comments half of which say "this story shouldn't have been posted" should not be posted.
Because people posting that are lazy whinging fuckwits that won't moderate the stories. Gees, it's not that hard.
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You are aware that's the Entertainment and Devices division aren't you? This division has to pay for costs and R&D related to WinCE, WM, WP7, Zune and just recently sucked up a quarter million for Kin. That's not representative of XBox.
Sure the code may be open but the framework, the hardware and SDK behind the whole Kinect is NOT open source in either spirit or word.
What framework? What SDK? So what if the hardware is not open source?
There is no way to implement the Kinect without blessing or buying from Microsoft or adhering to their patents or whatever limitations they want to apply to the system and software.
Yes you have to buy the hardware from them, who cares? They haven't applied any limits to the system and the software you use with it (the libfreenect driver) and anything you build on top is/can be open source.
The whole SDK expects you to have Visual Studio in order to develop for it. Let me know if there is a truly open source and cross platform implementation of both drivers, hardware and software that I am free to implement in my own package without getting sued.
WTF are you on about? You don't need an SDK and the libfreenect drivers were originally linux-only in fact. Seriously have you go any idea what you're talking about or are you just an anti-MS crybaby looking to have a rant?
What's the point of recording video if you have to hook it up to a computer and transfer it in order to play it on a TV or other output device?
DLNA? Play it straight to whatever device.
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Recent profit yes: But $10B loss + $4B profit still leaves them $6B in the hole...
You're assuming it's only 1/2 billion dollars a year, which is incorrect, in fact that has grown *significantly* since then. Also i'm not sure where your loss figures come from.
The PS3 uses a cell processor, I might be wrong but I dont think it has much in common with a PowerPC chip.
It's still a PPC core, but you certainly aren't going to run the same code as you would on the XBox or Wii CPUs since the architecture is HUGELY different.
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I don't know if you have noticed but the XBox is slowly dying.
Certainly doesn't appear to be.
The Kinect was a nice gimmick but how long will that last?
The Wii was a nice gimmick too and look how long that's lasted. Kinect even has the hacker community like the Wii.
Exchange is slowly dying as well.
Really? Still seems to be pretty extensively used. By the way you've used the term 'slowly dying' you could say just about anything is 'slowly dying'.
If you've ever implemented Sharepoint (I have) you'll know what a miserable failure it is.
Yes to implement it is a PITA, but the user experience is very good.
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Hint: burning through billions of dollars a year in order to finally almost break even in one year is not "a phenomenal success".
Hint: get your facts right otherwise you just look stupid, the XBox division has been turning a profit for years. In fact the year to June 08 netted almost 1/2 a billion dollars in profit for that year alone and has been turning a healthy profit ever since. So yes it *is* a phenomenal success.
I have the unalienable right to download, store and copy the leaked copy using my physical property, regardless of what the copyright or anti-circumvention laws claim.
I have the unalienable right to take your property and to shoot you with my own gun regardless of what the theft or murder laws claim.
Valve went and changed the game substantially and for the better. I hope they take the chance to do the same to crysis 2, if they do (add more value)
then no one will pirate the inferior version.
The HL2 leak was barely a techdemo. I'll admit i d/led it because i just really wanted to see it run and have a go but I also pre-ordered the collector's edition because i wanted to play the full story and have CS and all that.
Smartphones are taking over ranges and pricepoints that used to be dominated by dumbphones and as a result Android is surging forward in marketshare all the while Nokia is hemorrhaging. This just shows that most people will choose a smartphone over a dumbphone when given the choice.
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And who's to say that if Windows phones really take off, that won't be another race to the bottom?
Because WP7 needs to be licensed, and in order for that to happen certain hardware requirements need to be met so that the UX is consistent across devices. This is the thing that is a problem for Android, not only do users need to consider whether the Android platform is right for them but also whether the hardware is right for Android, that's a decision the consumer should not have to make.
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Nokia could have done other things: (1)Push Meego. (2)Push Symbian. (3)Adopt Android. (4)Develop their own OS.
(1) I don't think they had time, they gambled on Symbian for highend smartphones and failed, they tried Maemo and ultimately that wasn't great (for mainstream, for geeks it was awesome), could they really afford another failure? They're still only giving a timeframe of 2011 for a Meego device.
(2) It just wasn't designed to be a smartphone OS and isn't flexible enough. It failed on highend smartphones.
(3) That's the other viable option, but the Android brand has been tarnished by the cheap phones that don't run it well and the manufacturers that don't support it properly. I still think Nokia could have done great things with it by acting in the interest of the brand - good hardware, with timely updates - as opposed to just doing whatever to ship devices.
(4) Wasn't that Meego (and Maemo before it)?
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So far I've heard that it's basically fine, but nothing earth shattering;
I'd absolutely agree with that. It's basically iphone functionality but with a different paradigm - not so much an 'appliance device'. The UX is very very good, it doesn't seem as dated as the iOS one (particularly noticeable when going from my phone to the ipad) - though that's a matter of preference and obviously many people like the basic iOS setup.
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are they making a profit yet from R&D?
Of course they are, that R&D is what has resulted in the XBox, which is hugely successful and turning profits. So yes they are making profit from R&D.
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Microsoft today most reminds me of a coral reef in the Caribbean.
Still standing there, huge, menacing, misshapen and barnacle-encrusted.
But dead. The environment has changed around it and it can't adapt.
So what about the XBox? It's a phenomenal success in console terms (given the console business model). Just look at the commercial services available through XBox Live. And Kinect has been doing brilliantly, a device that hackers are loving just as much as gamers.
Also WP7 has only been on the market for a matter of months so it's too early to come to a conclusion on that yet, Windows Mobile (which is of course in no way related to WP7) was a failure, but then again it was never meant to compete in this environment, it's over a decade old.
Then there's the enterprise software like Exchange and Sharepoint.
Sure MS aren't in the consumer gadget business, but that doesn't make them dead.
Apple has no significant enterprise division, and Sun was almost 100% enterprise.
Apple excel at enduser-friendliness, fashion and platform control (be it the whole ecosystem or software+hardware tying). And those don't really apply to the enterprise market.
2. Make sure all installed programs are registered with the OS with appropriate checksums
What checksums and what's this 'registered with the OS' that legitimate apps will somehow have but illegitimate ones won't? Sounds like some kind of AV whitelist where apps would have to be vetted.
3. Give applications limited rights unless run in some sysadmin mode. They can only access their program directory and all user files must be passed in by the standard os file selection.
Standard OS file selection? You mean i need to confirm every shared file the program wants to access? Yeah that won't be annoying at all.
4. Monitors programs for suspicious behavior. Windows should come pre installed with Security essentials for example.
Then you need some definition of 'suspicious behavior', that could be anything, which is why malware and viruses are so widespread and AV definitions have to be constantly updated.
5. Protect all system files by only having them accessible in a sys admin mode (above the administrator mode).
Why? They are protected in user mode, and not protected as much in administrator mode. What's the point of admin mode then?
6. If connected to the internet, submit the file name/hash to the OS for analysis to see if there's a security risk.
How will the OS know if it's a risk? Sounds more like AV software.
7. Have an executable file system mask as on unix which requires you to actively mark a file as executable
So then the file you copy would already have that mask, otherwise every time you copy a file you have to already know which one is and is not supposed to be executable and manually go and set that flag on each file.
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To say there are "members" and a "hierarchy" or even an actual group called "Anonymous" in any normal sense of the word reveals a lack of understanding of the phenomena.
Phenomena? It's just a bunch of groups (with or without interchanging members) that operate under the same name. Looking at 'Anonymous' in the context of any one operation clearly reveals a 'group'. If it were just a collection of people attempting to achieve a common goal then the operations would not be coordinated, you can't coordinate such an attack (time, target, and even the cancellation of an operation) without some organisational hierarchy.
I don't see why we get 2-3 stories a day about the kinect, and Slashdot should be able to see by now that stories that only get 30 comments half of which say "this story shouldn't have been posted" should not be posted.
Because people posting that are lazy whinging fuckwits that won't moderate the stories. Gees, it's not that hard.
You are aware that's the Entertainment and Devices division aren't you? This division has to pay for costs and R&D related to WinCE, WM, WP7, Zune and just recently sucked up a quarter million for Kin. That's not representative of XBox.
Sure the code may be open but the framework, the hardware and SDK behind the whole Kinect is NOT open source in either spirit or word.
What framework? What SDK? So what if the hardware is not open source?
There is no way to implement the Kinect without blessing or buying from Microsoft or adhering to their patents or whatever limitations they want to apply to the system and software.
Yes you have to buy the hardware from them, who cares? They haven't applied any limits to the system and the software you use with it (the libfreenect driver) and anything you build on top is/can be open source.
The whole SDK expects you to have Visual Studio in order to develop for it. Let me know if there is a truly open source and cross platform implementation of both drivers, hardware and software that I am free to implement in my own package without getting sued.
WTF are you on about? You don't need an SDK and the libfreenect drivers were originally linux-only in fact. Seriously have you go any idea what you're talking about or are you just an anti-MS crybaby looking to have a rant?
As a Galaxy S (Sprint) owner, I am outraged at the lack of upgrade to Android 2.2 that was promised 6 or 7 months ago.
That's a problem with shitty US carriers, everywhere else the update is available for the Galaxy S.
What's the point of recording video if you have to hook it up to a computer and transfer it in order to play it on a TV or other output device?
DLNA? Play it straight to whatever device.
Recent profit yes: But $10B loss + $4B profit still leaves them $6B in the hole...
You're assuming it's only 1/2 billion dollars a year, which is incorrect, in fact that has grown *significantly* since then. Also i'm not sure where your loss figures come from.
The PS3 uses a cell processor, I might be wrong but I dont think it has much in common with a PowerPC chip.
It's still a PPC core, but you certainly aren't going to run the same code as you would on the XBox or Wii CPUs since the architecture is HUGELY different.
I don't know if you have noticed but the XBox is slowly dying.
Certainly doesn't appear to be.
The Kinect was a nice gimmick but how long will that last?
The Wii was a nice gimmick too and look how long that's lasted. Kinect even has the hacker community like the Wii.
Exchange is slowly dying as well.
Really? Still seems to be pretty extensively used. By the way you've used the term 'slowly dying' you could say just about anything is 'slowly dying'.
If you've ever implemented Sharepoint (I have) you'll know what a miserable failure it is.
Yes to implement it is a PITA, but the user experience is very good.
Hint: burning through billions of dollars a year in order to finally almost break even in one year is not "a phenomenal success".
Hint: get your facts right otherwise you just look stupid, the XBox division has been turning a profit for years. In fact the year to June 08 netted almost 1/2 a billion dollars in profit for that year alone and has been turning a healthy profit ever since. So yes it *is* a phenomenal success.
I have the unalienable right to download, store and copy the leaked copy using my physical property, regardless of what the copyright or anti-circumvention laws claim.
I have the unalienable right to take your property and to shoot you with my own gun regardless of what the theft or murder laws claim.
Valve went and changed the game substantially and for the better. I hope they take the chance to do the same to crysis 2, if they do (add more value) then no one will pirate the inferior version.
The HL2 leak was barely a techdemo. I'll admit i d/led it because i just really wanted to see it run and have a go but I also pre-ordered the collector's edition because i wanted to play the full story and have CS and all that.
So these websites aren't just illegal, they're *astonishingly* illegal!
That's a legal term btw ;)
and the RRDs?
I assume you mean the RROD? Like the PS3's YLOD.
$2 billion is an awful lot to fix a screw up that should never have existed.
And yet they are still doing very well, it's all about scale.
Is it? Have you got any stats?
Smartphones are taking over ranges and pricepoints that used to be dominated by dumbphones and as a result Android is surging forward in marketshare all the while Nokia is hemorrhaging. This just shows that most people will choose a smartphone over a dumbphone when given the choice.
And who's to say that if Windows phones really take off, that won't be another race to the bottom?
Because WP7 needs to be licensed, and in order for that to happen certain hardware requirements need to be met so that the UX is consistent across devices. This is the thing that is a problem for Android, not only do users need to consider whether the Android platform is right for them but also whether the hardware is right for Android, that's a decision the consumer should not have to make.
Nokia could have done other things: (1)Push Meego. (2)Push Symbian. (3)Adopt Android. (4)Develop their own OS.
(1) I don't think they had time, they gambled on Symbian for highend smartphones and failed, they tried Maemo and ultimately that wasn't great (for mainstream, for geeks it was awesome), could they really afford another failure? They're still only giving a timeframe of 2011 for a Meego device.
(2) It just wasn't designed to be a smartphone OS and isn't flexible enough. It failed on highend smartphones.
(3) That's the other viable option, but the Android brand has been tarnished by the cheap phones that don't run it well and the manufacturers that don't support it properly. I still think Nokia could have done great things with it by acting in the interest of the brand - good hardware, with timely updates - as opposed to just doing whatever to ship devices.
(4) Wasn't that Meego (and Maemo before it)?
So far I've heard that it's basically fine, but nothing earth shattering;
I'd absolutely agree with that. It's basically iphone functionality but with a different paradigm - not so much an 'appliance device'. The UX is very very good, it doesn't seem as dated as the iOS one (particularly noticeable when going from my phone to the ipad) - though that's a matter of preference and obviously many people like the basic iOS setup.
are they making a profit yet from R&D?
Of course they are, that R&D is what has resulted in the XBox, which is hugely successful and turning profits. So yes they are making profit from R&D.
Microsoft today most reminds me of a coral reef in the Caribbean. Still standing there, huge, menacing, misshapen and barnacle-encrusted. But dead. The environment has changed around it and it can't adapt.
So what about the XBox? It's a phenomenal success in console terms (given the console business model). Just look at the commercial services available through XBox Live. And Kinect has been doing brilliantly, a device that hackers are loving just as much as gamers.
Also WP7 has only been on the market for a matter of months so it's too early to come to a conclusion on that yet, Windows Mobile (which is of course in no way related to WP7) was a failure, but then again it was never meant to compete in this environment, it's over a decade old.
Then there's the enterprise software like Exchange and Sharepoint.
Sure MS aren't in the consumer gadget business, but that doesn't make them dead.
No. Some people just want a phone. And cheaply.
But that's an increasingly shrinking market, which is why Nokia are having trouble.
and just because the person mentions "fiance", you assume its a female, and you wonder why some nerds are forever stuck int he basement
no, i didn't assume, see fiance vs fiancee.
Hard drives aren't small and are rather noticeable.
This guy is probably not the only person to have thrown out a broken hard drive in new york though.
Apple has no significant enterprise division, and Sun was almost 100% enterprise.
Apple excel at enduser-friendliness, fashion and platform control (be it the whole ecosystem or software+hardware tying). And those don't really apply to the enterprise market.
1. Only run executables for installed programs
How are you going to install it then?
2. Make sure all installed programs are registered with the OS with appropriate checksums
What checksums and what's this 'registered with the OS' that legitimate apps will somehow have but illegitimate ones won't? Sounds like some kind of AV whitelist where apps would have to be vetted.
3. Give applications limited rights unless run in some sysadmin mode. They can only access their program directory and all user files must be passed in by the standard os file selection.
Standard OS file selection? You mean i need to confirm every shared file the program wants to access? Yeah that won't be annoying at all.
4. Monitors programs for suspicious behavior. Windows should come pre installed with Security essentials for example.
Then you need some definition of 'suspicious behavior', that could be anything, which is why malware and viruses are so widespread and AV definitions have to be constantly updated.
5. Protect all system files by only having them accessible in a sys admin mode (above the administrator mode).
Why? They are protected in user mode, and not protected as much in administrator mode. What's the point of admin mode then?
6. If connected to the internet, submit the file name/hash to the OS for analysis to see if there's a security risk.
How will the OS know if it's a risk? Sounds more like AV software.
7. Have an executable file system mask as on unix which requires you to actively mark a file as executable
So then the file you copy would already have that mask, otherwise every time you copy a file you have to already know which one is and is not supposed to be executable and manually go and set that flag on each file.