Please note: Games run with these methods will be slower than running them on Windows because the games are not native executable files. To get the best performance we will need to wait for Valve to release a native Steam client
While it may work for some things (as I mentioned in my accidentally anonymous post, I've got software that I rely on that refuse to run under WINE) under the best conditions, it adds layers in the execution tree.
This slows things down. In today's performance-driven market, that means the bleeding-edge games don't run as fast with all the eye-candy turned on.
I say "under the best conditions" because it's a re-implementation of the Windows APIs. There's all sorts of opportunities for them to rewrite things less efficiently and end up with less stable code.
I'm tired of people assuming that, just because something might (sorta) run (maybe) under WINE that that's all that really matters.
The article is about native Linux support. NATIVE.
Native means you don't need WINE and you don't need a VM. It means you slap the disk in, run the installer, and go. No emulation layer, no reverse-engineered Windows APIs.
Relying on Codeweavers is not going to be a good idea for a commercial software house. Relying on Codeweavers is what end-users do while they wait for the software houses to realize that they are ignoring an entire market *AND* invest the resources necessary to service that market.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
Regardless of whether or not he would have agreed with Obama's politics, I think he would be proud to see that the citizens of the United States have shown themselves willing to accept a non-white man as President.
If he's able to truly make a difference and help the country turn around, I think he'd be prouder still.
In the United States, Congress can override a presidential veto by having a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and Senate, thus enacting the bill into law despite the president's veto.
As you can see, because the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (which was responsible for the repeal of Glass-Steagall) had more than 2/3 of both the House and Senate voting for it, there really wasn't anything Clinton could have done about it, even if he wanted to.
Why would you need someone to come up and rescue you? The vehicles have to be designed so they can detach themselves from the ribbon anyway.
If there's a "rescue vessel" in orbit, have it shoot a grapple to the car, make it detach, and reel it up.
Or, you could have relatively small thrusters on-board to try and get that "last mile".
Regardless of either of the above, *I* would make sure the climbers (or at least the cargo/passenger portion) could survive a dead-stick reentry, a-la the Apollo capsules.
As you suggest, one of the main reasons to do it is to record what the individual does. You don't necessarily have to be monitoring the logs of the guy's activity in real-time, but it might not be a bad idea.
You'll also have the ability to disconnect the guy from the network once he's attained a certain goal, or if he attempts to do something outside of the scope of what you agreed to.
The problem is, this is someone from *outside* the organization. You have *no idea* how trustworthy he may be. Sure, he gave you a complete write-up of how he gained unauthorized access to the system. But what did he do once he got it? Did he download local copies of/etc/passwd and/etc/shadow? Did he copy any of the system's encryption key pairs so he could try to spoof your server? Did he replace any utilities with trojaned versions? Did he install any backdoors or keyloggers? Etc...
Oh, he says he didn't? How do you know he's telling the truth? You need to do an audit of your filesystems to identify what, if anything has been modified. Every password for every service needs to be changed. All of the SSH/SSL keys need to be regenerated. Just as you'd do after *any* unauthorized access has been discovered.
If you have the surveillance data, there's no question of what he did or didn't do.
If the person is an employee, you've (hopefully) already subjected the individual to a certain amount of scrutiny to determine how trustworthy he is, and how likely he is to do something not in your bet interests. You don't have that luxury here.
And as for "doing it yourself", it's called a security audit. You NEVER want to rely upon the people who built your security to test it. If they made a mistake when building your security, or if they haven't been keeping up with newly discovered vulnerabilities, they're probably not going to find the holes when they go looking for them.
32 GB USB flash drives are twice the price at ~$80
So yes, *RIGHT NOW*, if you buy a BD burner and a spindle of 10 BD-RE disks, you'll spend less money than you would if you bought an equivalent amount of USB flash storage.
This isn't the fairest comparison, because with the flash example I'm providing, the reader is encapsulated with the storage, so you're paying for it every time. (as well as packaging) That being said, almost every computer these days has a USB port, as do many set-top boxes. Not every computer or home has a BD player.
The price of flash continues to drop. The price of BD media and burners will come down. The question will be, which falls the fastest?
HOWEVER: Neither this trailer nor the trailer for Tron 2 (from a day or two ago) were videotaped as part of a commercial film presentation.
Both were recorded at Comic Con -- essentially a media event. The fact that there were individuals in the audience with cameras and camcorders should have been well known and accepted.
but what about in 10-15 years when you can't run the software on anything but authorized hardware, and trying to bypass that is a federal offense.
Then those of us who still care will go in search of alternatives for the restrictive software. And if Windows happens to be one of the more oppressive programs, you may find more people migrating to Linux or BSD. And as a result, more developerssupporting those OSes.
Depending on where you are and the ridiculousness of the way the local law is written, even being seen using them may result in an arrest/fines, or their confiscation.
Too many asshats throwing the darts when it's not clear downrange, and getting the dart embedded in their buddy's chest. The fact that both parties were usually drunk at the time was a relative non-consideration.
Nope. After all, what proof is there that you're not standing before them with falsified documents claiming to be someone you're not. And if you go in with witnesses to support your claim of being who you say you are, what's to say that they haven't been paid to lie?
Your best bet would be, while you know that the SSA thinks you're alive, Go to your local police department, and have them fingerprint you and file your prints. That way, you can demand to be fingerprinted and have your current prints compared to those taken (hopefully) years ago.
On another note, what the University did here might be illegal too. They are giving probably without a court order, a LIST of students' names to a third party.
(emphasis mine)
From the Summary:
Hours after a federal court judge ordered Oklahoma State University to show cause why it shouldn't be held in contempt for failing to respond to an RIAA subpoena...
(emphasis mine)
In case you are unfamiliar with the definition of a subpoena, it means "a court order". Reference a dictionary or even Wikipedia.
The RIAA managed to convince one judge that they were wronged by someone on the university's network. That judge ordered the university to hand over the list so they could "identify" the specific individuals. They initially refused. When the judge said "Explain to me why you think you shouldn't have to comply with the court order," the university said "Oops. sorry. our bad. here you go."
Whether you agree with the reasoning behind any of the events, or even the right/wrongness of them, that truly is a summary of what had happened.
And, somewhat ironically, my captcha (since I don't stay logged in to SlashDot) is "freedom".
First off, putting them somewhere other than Earth orbit is silly - yes, you can get more energy from the Sun, but how do you transmit it to Earth? The microwave (or whatever) beam will also fall of with the square of the distance.
Actually, no.
Light intensity from the sun drops off at the square of the distance because the sun radiates as a point source in all directions.
If you put your collector array closer to the sun, you collect significantly more sunlight. Then you use that energy to power a laser. If you can keep that beam tightly focused, you won't have much loss in the beam at all.
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From Valve's Developer Forum
While it may work for some things (as I mentioned in my accidentally anonymous post, I've got software that I rely on that refuse to run under WINE) under the best conditions, it adds layers in the execution tree.
This slows things down. In today's performance-driven market, that means the bleeding-edge games don't run as fast with all the eye-candy turned on.
I say "under the best conditions" because it's a re-implementation of the Windows APIs. There's all sorts of opportunities for them to rewrite things less efficiently and end up with less stable code.
Who? Valve?
Care to back yourself up with links?
I don't know why it went anonymously. I'm logged in, after all, and don't recall hitting the "Post anonymously" checkbox.
Dude! WTF!
I'm tired of people assuming that, just because something might (sorta) run (maybe) under WINE that that's all that really matters.
The article is about native Linux support. NATIVE.
Native means you don't need WINE and you don't need a VM. It means you slap the disk in, run the installer, and go. No emulation layer, no reverse-engineered Windows APIs.
Relying on Codeweavers is not going to be a good idea for a commercial software house. Relying on Codeweavers is what end-users do while they wait for the software houses to realize that they are ignoring an entire market *AND* invest the resources necessary to service that market.
To quote from the text of Dr. King's speech
Regardless of whether or not he would have agreed with Obama's politics, I think he would be proud to see that the citizens of the United States have shown themselves willing to accept a non-white man as President.
If he's able to truly make a difference and help the country turn around, I think he'd be prouder still.
The repeal of Glass-Steagall wasn't Clinton's fault.
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As you can see, because the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (which was responsible for the repeal of Glass-Steagall) had more than 2/3 of both the House and Senate voting for it, there really wasn't anything Clinton could have done about it, even if he wanted to.
If porn is what you're looking for, there are sites very similar to YouTube where that's all they do.
http://www.youporn.com
http://www.pornotube.com
Just to provide two examples.
Why would you need someone to come up and rescue you? The vehicles have to be designed so they can detach themselves from the ribbon anyway.
If there's a "rescue vessel" in orbit, have it shoot a grapple to the car, make it detach, and reel it up.
Or, you could have relatively small thrusters on-board to try and get that "last mile".
Regardless of either of the above, *I* would make sure the climbers (or at least the cargo/passenger portion) could survive a dead-stick reentry, a-la the Apollo capsules.
You missed the word "Controlled".
As you suggest, one of the main reasons to do it is to record what the individual does. You don't necessarily have to be monitoring the logs of the guy's activity in real-time, but it might not be a bad idea.
You'll also have the ability to disconnect the guy from the network once he's attained a certain goal, or if he attempts to do something outside of the scope of what you agreed to.
The problem is, this is someone from *outside* the organization. You have *no idea* how trustworthy he may be. Sure, he gave you a complete write-up of how he gained unauthorized access to the system. But what did he do once he got it? Did he download local copies of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow? Did he copy any of the system's encryption key pairs so he could try to spoof your server? Did he replace any utilities with trojaned versions? Did he install any backdoors or keyloggers? Etc...
Oh, he says he didn't? How do you know he's telling the truth? You need to do an audit of your filesystems to identify what, if anything has been modified. Every password for every service needs to be changed. All of the SSH/SSL keys need to be regenerated. Just as you'd do after *any* unauthorized access has been discovered.
If you have the surveillance data, there's no question of what he did or didn't do.
If the person is an employee, you've (hopefully) already subjected the individual to a certain amount of scrutiny to determine how trustworthy he is, and how likely he is to do something not in your bet interests. You don't have that luxury here.
And as for "doing it yourself", it's called a security audit. You NEVER want to rely upon the people who built your security to test it. If they made a mistake when building your security, or if they haven't been keeping up with newly discovered vulnerabilities, they're probably not going to find the holes when they go looking for them.
Single-layer (25GB) Non-rewriteable Blu-Ray discs are $8-$10/each.
Single-layer (25GB) rewriteable Blu-Ray disks are ~$16-18. (look for BD-RE)
HOWEVER:
A Blu-Ray burner will set you back > $200
16 GB USB flash drives can be had for ~$40
32 GB USB flash drives are twice the price at ~$80
So yes, *RIGHT NOW*, if you buy a BD burner and a spindle of 10 BD-RE disks, you'll spend less money than you would if you bought an equivalent amount of USB flash storage.
This isn't the fairest comparison, because with the flash example I'm providing, the reader is encapsulated with the storage, so you're paying for it every time. (as well as packaging) That being said, almost every computer these days has a USB port, as do many set-top boxes. Not every computer or home has a BD player.
The price of flash continues to drop. The price of BD media and burners will come down. The question will be, which falls the fastest?
People who regularly have to work with hardware that is more than a few years old, and thus doesn't do auto MDI/MDIX
Or better still, put on your robe and wizard hat.
(Mildly NSFW)
I agree.
HOWEVER: Neither this trailer nor the trailer for Tron 2 (from a day or two ago) were videotaped as part of a commercial film presentation.
Both were recorded at Comic Con -- essentially a media event. The fact that there were individuals in the audience with cameras and camcorders should have been well known and accepted.
Bad enough MIPS and PPC have gone the way of the dodo more or less.
Don't forget about SPARC.
Then those of us who still care will go in search of alternatives for the restrictive software. And if Windows happens to be one of the more oppressive programs, you may find more people migrating to Linux or BSD. And as a result, more developerssupporting those OSes.
I want to know what you do for a living that $1300 is "a couple of hundred bucks".
"a couple" is generally accepted to be some number approximating two.
Actually, probably.
They're illegal to sell in the U.S.
Depending on where you are and the ridiculousness of the way the local law is written, even being seen using them may result in an arrest/fines, or their confiscation.
Too many asshats throwing the darts when it's not clear downrange, and getting the dart embedded in their buddy's chest. The fact that both parties were usually drunk at the time was a relative non-consideration.
Nope. After all, what proof is there that you're not standing before them with falsified documents claiming to be someone you're not. And if you go in with witnesses to support your claim of being who you say you are, what's to say that they haven't been paid to lie?
Your best bet would be, while you know that the SSA thinks you're alive, Go to your local police department, and have them fingerprint you and file your prints. That way, you can demand to be fingerprinted and have your current prints compared to those taken (hopefully) years ago.
From the Summary: (emphasis mine)
In case you are unfamiliar with the definition of a subpoena, it means "a court order". Reference a dictionary or even Wikipedia.
The RIAA managed to convince one judge that they were wronged by someone on the university's network. That judge ordered the university to hand over the list so they could "identify" the specific individuals. They initially refused. When the judge said "Explain to me why you think you shouldn't have to comply with the court order," the university said "Oops. sorry. our bad. here you go."
Whether you agree with the reasoning behind any of the events, or even the right/wrongness of them, that truly is a summary of what had happened.
And, somewhat ironically, my captcha (since I don't stay logged in to SlashDot) is "freedom".
There are *lots* of compact fluorescent full-spectrum bulbs available.
JFGI
Right. But to rephrase the parent's question "How much storage is included in that $500 price tag?"
The answer to that question is "Zero."
While you bring up a good point, they *do* offer to sell you 1TB drives to put in the thing.
Last time I checked, (which admittedly was some months ago) the only CableCARDs that were available were one-way.
IE: You couldn't use them to do anything that requires your cable box send data back to the cable company... like browsing on-demand content.
Once bi-directional CableCARDS are available, maybe then I'll care enough about whether I can buy a set-top box to put it in.
Laser, Maser....
They're both coherent beams of electromagnetic sepctra.
Regardless of which ends up being implemented, my point remains unchanged.
If you use a coherent beam to transmit the power, you don't see distance-squared losses.
First off, putting them somewhere other than Earth orbit is silly - yes, you can get more energy from the Sun, but how do you transmit it to Earth? The microwave (or whatever) beam will also fall of with the square of the distance.
Actually, no.
Light intensity from the sun drops off at the square of the distance because the sun radiates as a point source in all directions.
If you put your collector array closer to the sun, you collect significantly more sunlight. Then you use that energy to power a laser. If you can keep that beam tightly focused, you won't have much loss in the beam at all.