As you say providing Nintendo makes money on the device itself
Thats the problem, they may not be making money on the device itself. Now I don't know what the profit margin or loss is for the DS, but in many cases, the makers lose money on the hardware, and make up for it with the licensing of the technology to the game makers.
So when you pirate those games, they do end up losing money. Like someone previously said, these are companies, while yes they provide a service or a product, they are in it to make money. In this case, I cannot fault them for trying to protect their own interests, but at the same time, many of the products they say are used for piracy, have legitimate uses as well. Backing up the games is a prime example.
The games cost a freaking fortune, and while that is the main reason I sold off my Wii. The swapping games in and out of the system can take its toll, pets, kids, etc, there are alot of ways to dmg a disk, I would rather play the backup disk and store the originals.
And I have not and will not purchase a new console (ps3 or 360), till the games come down to a more reasonable price.
What I would be curious to know is who has been dictating the prices of the games, is it collusion in the developer industry, since they all seem to be priced the same (on avg its what, $60 for a new release), or is Nintendo/Sony/MS dictating what the games sell for.
You are almost sort of incorrect.. there is some immediate data being exchanged when you move into international roaming (I know you can roam locally on various local providers without any problems).
If you do not have international roaming on your account, when you try to use data or make a call you get denied. If you call your provider (from say a landline) and enable international roaming, your phone miraculously starts to work on the international network you are currently trying to use.
Now, I cannot say how the cruise ships communication towers identify themselves, ie do they id themselves as an international provider where you need international roaming enabled on your account, or do they just say they are whatever local provider, ATT or Tmobile, and let you use the network while charging a crapton of money.
Either way, from a billing standpoint, my understanding is that they do not always update the usage immediately, which is dumb, the technology exists and it should not be an issue, but then again like I said above, there is some instant communication going on when you enable roaming via customer service (or online).
Sure they can have my logs, its going to show them 192.168.x.x and 10.0.10.x (depending on my various subnets), and I am just a home user.
so MAC address X connected to my network, and I supplied IP Address 192.168.x.y... Yeah, thats going to help law enforcement catch whomever sat in their car near my house for 3 hours while I was at work and them surfing child porn..
Obviously, they way my network is setup, this will never happen (I have my wireless only bridging my wired to wireless network, dhcp from an openbsd box, routing and gateway from an openbsd box, and the fact that the firewall rules prevent any wireless device from going anywhere till they connect to the openvpn which uses pke for authentication... No one uses my network without me letting them...)
But, that was not the point, every wireless AP out there uses RFC1918 address space, and that will be useless to law enforcement.
They don't care about MAC addresses, they are useless from a tracking standpoint (unless you want to hunt down a machine in your local network)... Providing the MAC to law enforcement will only tell them what kind of device it is, and who the vendor that made it is. Unless they create a giant registry and force people to register their MAC addresses.
Take mine for example, my wireless is setup as a bridge, it does nothing but provide access to my wired network, where I have my dhcp server (I did this so that my wired and wireless machines are all on the same subnet). While my dhcp server has logs, there is not way they can force me to install a client on it (openbsd machine).. short of threatening me.
Hell, you know what we should do.. we should just setup syslog servers, set the configuration to *.* @goverment.run.logging.server and and play stupid.. they want logs.. give them logs. Pull a trick that some lawyers use when they are forced to provide evidence to opposing lawyers..... give them everything and let the people making the request sift through the crap for what they want.. I would change my DHCP lease time from 24 hours to 60 seconds.. during hours when no ones in my house.. they can have the logs of the 10 or so dhcp hosts I have in my house..
Not true, most of the cheap routers support exporting to syslog... now getting the avg user, even an avg technical user, to figure out how to setup a syslog server is another story.
At a major news outlet (they own both papers around the US, and newswire services). They are not permitted to use wikipedia for anything, not even casual references. Any story that comes across her desk (or her co workers), that has wikipedia anywhere as a mention of a source, gets dumped, or additional research to find a non wikipedia related source is done if the story is important enough.
That said, I use wikipedia all the time, when it comes to technical related things, the specs and such are usually correct based off manufacturer or developer specs. Anything that is subjective, and wikipedia is useless..
Having worked at the USDOT..
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Of which the FAA is apart of, I can say, with absolute certainty, that like every other major entity, there are literally dozens and dozens of systems that are in no way connected to the ATC, or any other network for that matter. Yes they are networked, but so is every desktop and every camera, that does not mean they are not well isolated and secure from each other.
FAA has well over 10k hosts (desktops, servers, etc etc), its unfortunate, but expected that many of those hosts are probably vulnerable to something. But at the same time, critical systems (ATC for example), are generally isolated from the basic FAA backbone, and on a closed network.
With that said, I do not see there being any problem installing this on other brands.... Specifically in my case, the Samsung NC10, which has identical hardware.
One thing I did not check out was the keyboard layout, and how the extra function keys (volume, brightness etc) are mapped, and whether those will work with this distro.
I suspect the fee for ESPN is low, just to start the process. Once it get's to be a normal thing, you'll find your access to parts of the internet filtered and ad revenue will no longer be the way websites pay for their bandwidth/workers/hardware. It will be exactly like premium channels on cable.
The problem is, its not low. My understanding, is that ESPN (or its parent company) extracts atleast $1 per user per month from the cable operators that carry those channels, regardless of whether or not those users watch any of that programming. They fought tooth and nail to keep the ESPN channels on the regular tier for that purpose. I vaguely remember some operators trying to push the ESPN channels into a sports package tier only and remove it from the regular channel tiers, and ESPN put a stop to that... but thats total speculation on something I think happened...
Take it one step further... have the backbone providers filter espn traffic at all teh peering points, that would take the wind out of ESPNs sails very quickly when suddenly no one can see their content.
I am all for them making deals on a per user basis, but not on a global scale like they are trying to push now. I do not watch Disney channels, I do not watch any sports channels, hell I do not even watch sports on the normal network channels.. I do not care for it..
Yet as a FIOS customer, I apparently am paying this little ESPN tax or Disney Tax, whatever you want to call it, on both my ISP and TV bills... I really wish I could get ala carte programming...
What makes you think they won't. In one of my previous posts, I noted that I was trying to streamline my drivers into windows 7 for my samsung netbook. when I ran vlite, it asks me which version I want to use (this only listed 4 versions though, not 6). so in essence, it would not be difficult for them to just ship a single DVD, and as someone else pointed out, control which feature set is used (or whichever version gets installed) based on the licensed key.
the flip side to that is of course that pirates/crackers will quickly figure out how to fudge the installs and install a version that you are not licensed for.
You do realize that their OS flagship products actually account for very little of their revenue. Most of MS's money comes from their Office products, and server products.
I have XP and Windows 7 dual booted on my Samsung NC10 smartbook. While it is no power house, I have no problems running firefox, outlook, word, aim applications and a few others. I do however notice that Video kills the machine, I get choppy video when streaming, I have not tried to download or play a DVD though (since I do not have an external DVD player).
I ran into a problem with the 64bit OS's In general, performance wise, I did not notice a difference on my quad core AMD phenom. I currently have XP64 on it. The issue I ran into, or rather my wife ran into, is that a number of the applications she needs (when she works from home), are not, and will not run correctly on XP64. I imagine that problem will persist for a while longer. Mind you, these are not your avg consumer applications. These are newswire type applications. Also of note, the Cisco VPN client for XP64 does not work, and refuses to cooperate with the cooperate cisco vpn concentrators. This is a known issue by cisco, but currently not high on their fix list.
I am guessing that till everyone has a 64bit arch, and they are far more prevalent then they are now, we will not see much 64 bit development, drivers and applications alike.
Oh, and so far, the XP drivers for my machines all work just fine under Windows 7, unlike the vista drivers which refuse to work...
Good luck with that, I currently have Windows 7 running on my Samsung NC10 netbook.. not exactly a powerhouse device, with all the bells and whistles, and while its not screaming fast, it is comparable to XP in most functions, I do get some slight delay on the fancy windowing minimize and maximize functions, but hey, its a netbook...
I could not tell you how they plan to market it, however I do know for a fact, there are 4 distinct versions of windows 7. Naming scheme is similar to Vista.
I ran vlite (the vista version of nlite) to slipstream the drivers for my samsung nc10 notebook into the image, and when you first select the drive where you copied the CD files to, it pops up with a menu asking which version of Windows 7 you want to use. Obviously I selected Ultimate, but there are 3 other versions on the beta DVD.
How they plan to market, sell, or package, I could not tell you, hell I do not even know if any of these other versions on teh DVD will go into production, but as it stands right now, in the beta format, there are 4 separate versions of Windows 7 on the DVD
I have one of those wireless smart meters (due to the dog situation for one, and lack of easy access to my back yard as well)
But in my original statement, I may not have been completely clear. The power pirates (tm):) while they do steal power via the method I described, they don't always use it to power the entire house, just the illegal portions, they still use their normal power supply to run the house itself, which of course would not raise any flags anywhere.
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As you say providing Nintendo makes money on the device itself
Thats the problem, they may not be making money on the device itself. Now I don't know what the profit margin or loss is for the DS, but in many cases, the makers lose money on the hardware, and make up for it with the licensing of the technology to the game makers.
So when you pirate those games, they do end up losing money. Like someone previously said, these are companies, while yes they provide a service or a product, they are in it to make money. In this case, I cannot fault them for trying to protect their own interests, but at the same time, many of the products they say are used for piracy, have legitimate uses as well. Backing up the games is a prime example.
The games cost a freaking fortune, and while that is the main reason I sold off my Wii. The swapping games in and out of the system can take its toll, pets, kids, etc, there are alot of ways to dmg a disk, I would rather play the backup disk and store the originals.
And I have not and will not purchase a new console (ps3 or 360), till the games come down to a more reasonable price.
What I would be curious to know is who has been dictating the prices of the games, is it collusion in the developer industry, since they all seem to be priced the same (on avg its what, $60 for a new release), or is Nintendo/Sony/MS dictating what the games sell for.
You are almost sort of incorrect.. there is some immediate data being exchanged when you move into international roaming (I know you can roam locally on various local providers without any problems).
If you do not have international roaming on your account, when you try to use data or make a call you get denied. If you call your provider (from say a landline) and enable international roaming, your phone miraculously starts to work on the international network you are currently trying to use.
Now, I cannot say how the cruise ships communication towers identify themselves, ie do they id themselves as an international provider where you need international roaming enabled on your account, or do they just say they are whatever local provider, ATT or Tmobile, and let you use the network while charging a crapton of money.
Either way, from a billing standpoint, my understanding is that they do not always update the usage immediately, which is dumb, the technology exists and it should not be an issue, but then again like I said above, there is some instant communication going on when you enable roaming via customer service (or online).
Based on the vmware/xen comparison chart, there is no limitation...
http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=1686939 (this link was posted above by someone else as well, I do not claim credit)
Sure they can have my logs, its going to show them 192.168.x.x and 10.0.10.x (depending on my various subnets), and I am just a home user.
so MAC address X connected to my network, and I supplied IP Address 192.168.x.y ... Yeah, thats going to help law enforcement catch whomever sat in their car near my house for 3 hours while I was at work and them surfing child porn..
Obviously, they way my network is setup, this will never happen (I have my wireless only bridging my wired to wireless network, dhcp from an openbsd box, routing and gateway from an openbsd box, and the fact that the firewall rules prevent any wireless device from going anywhere till they connect to the openvpn which uses pke for authentication... No one uses my network without me letting them...)
But, that was not the point, every wireless AP out there uses RFC1918 address space, and that will be useless to law enforcement.
They don't care about MAC addresses, they are useless from a tracking standpoint (unless you want to hunt down a machine in your local network)... Providing the MAC to law enforcement will only tell them what kind of device it is, and who the vendor that made it is. Unless they create a giant registry and force people to register their MAC addresses.
That won't work in every situation.
Take mine for example, my wireless is setup as a bridge, it does nothing but provide access to my wired network, where I have my dhcp server (I did this so that my wired and wireless machines are all on the same subnet). While my dhcp server has logs, there is not way they can force me to install a client on it (openbsd machine).. short of threatening me.
Hell, you know what we should do.. we should just setup syslog servers, set the configuration to *.* @goverment.run.logging.server and and play stupid.. they want logs.. give them logs. Pull a trick that some lawyers use when they are forced to provide evidence to opposing lawyers..... give them everything and let the people making the request sift through the crap for what they want.. I would change my DHCP lease time from 24 hours to 60 seconds.. during hours when no ones in my house.. they can have the logs of the 10 or so dhcp hosts I have in my house..
We already have that.. its called facebook and livejournal :P
Not true, most of the cheap routers support exporting to syslog... now getting the avg user, even an avg technical user, to figure out how to setup a syslog server is another story.
This is COPA all over again.. does not matter how you word a law, throw children in there and people start running around like headless chickens.
Children's safety is the parents responsibility, not those people who provide services (deliberatly or accidentally.. aka unsecured access points)
Till they come up with a good way to figure out whats going across the network encrypted, they will just be wasting their time.
At a major news outlet (they own both papers around the US, and newswire services). They are not permitted to use wikipedia for anything, not even casual references. Any story that comes across her desk (or her co workers), that has wikipedia anywhere as a mention of a source, gets dumped, or additional research to find a non wikipedia related source is done if the story is important enough.
That said, I use wikipedia all the time, when it comes to technical related things, the specs and such are usually correct based off manufacturer or developer specs. Anything that is subjective, and wikipedia is useless..
Of which the FAA is apart of, I can say, with absolute certainty, that like every other major entity, there are literally dozens and dozens of systems that are in no way connected to the ATC, or any other network for that matter. Yes they are networked, but so is every desktop and every camera, that does not mean they are not well isolated and secure from each other.
FAA has well over 10k hosts (desktops, servers, etc etc), its unfortunate, but expected that many of those hosts are probably vulnerable to something. But at the same time, critical systems (ATC for example), are generally isolated from the basic FAA backbone, and on a closed network.
With that said, I do not see there being any problem installing this on other brands.... Specifically in my case, the Samsung NC10, which has identical hardware.
One thing I did not check out was the keyboard layout, and how the extra function keys (volume, brightness etc) are mapped, and whether those will work with this distro.
I suspect the fee for ESPN is low, just to start the process. Once it get's to be a normal thing, you'll find your access to parts of the internet filtered and ad revenue will no longer be the way websites pay for their bandwidth/workers/hardware. It will be exactly like premium channels on cable.
The problem is, its not low. My understanding, is that ESPN (or its parent company) extracts atleast $1 per user per month from the cable operators that carry those channels, regardless of whether or not those users watch any of that programming. They fought tooth and nail to keep the ESPN channels on the regular tier for that purpose. I vaguely remember some operators trying to push the ESPN channels into a sports package tier only and remove it from the regular channel tiers, and ESPN put a stop to that... but thats total speculation on something I think happened...
Take it one step further... have the backbone providers filter espn traffic at all teh peering points, that would take the wind out of ESPNs sails very quickly when suddenly no one can see their content.
I am all for them making deals on a per user basis, but not on a global scale like they are trying to push now. I do not watch Disney channels, I do not watch any sports channels, hell I do not even watch sports on the normal network channels.. I do not care for it..
Yet as a FIOS customer, I apparently am paying this little ESPN tax or Disney Tax, whatever you want to call it, on both my ISP and TV bills... I really wish I could get ala carte programming...
There's a key difference here, mate:
Commander: Go to Iraq, soldier!
Soldier: No sir, I don't want to.
Commander: Then get out of the military.
You are incorrect here.. very very incorrect. If you are ordered to do something or go somewhere, and you disobey.. you get a court martial.
You sign up for the military, you do as you are told till your obligation ends, then you get out.
I stand corrected.. mods can mod my parent down.
SCO... oh wait nevermind they are already dead :)
What makes you think they won't. In one of my previous posts, I noted that I was trying to streamline my drivers into windows 7 for my samsung netbook. when I ran vlite, it asks me which version I want to use (this only listed 4 versions though, not 6). so in essence, it would not be difficult for them to just ship a single DVD, and as someone else pointed out, control which feature set is used (or whichever version gets installed) based on the licensed key.
the flip side to that is of course that pirates/crackers will quickly figure out how to fudge the installs and install a version that you are not licensed for.
You do realize that their OS flagship products actually account for very little of their revenue. Most of MS's money comes from their Office products, and server products.
I have XP and Windows 7 dual booted on my Samsung NC10 smartbook. While it is no power house, I have no problems running firefox, outlook, word, aim applications and a few others. I do however notice that Video kills the machine, I get choppy video when streaming, I have not tried to download or play a DVD though (since I do not have an external DVD player).
I ran into a problem with the 64bit OS's
In general, performance wise, I did not notice a difference on my quad core AMD phenom. I currently have XP64 on it. The issue I ran into, or rather my wife ran into, is that a number of the applications she needs (when she works from home), are not, and will not run correctly on XP64. I imagine that problem will persist for a while longer. Mind you, these are not your avg consumer applications. These are newswire type applications. Also of note, the Cisco VPN client for XP64 does not work, and refuses to cooperate with the cooperate cisco vpn concentrators. This is a known issue by cisco, but currently not high on their fix list.
I am guessing that till everyone has a 64bit arch, and they are far more prevalent then they are now, we will not see much 64 bit development, drivers and applications alike.
Oh, and so far, the XP drivers for my machines all work just fine under Windows 7, unlike the vista drivers which refuse to work...
Good luck with that, I currently have Windows 7 running on my Samsung NC10 netbook.. not exactly a powerhouse device, with all the bells and whistles, and while its not screaming fast, it is comparable to XP in most functions, I do get some slight delay on the fancy windowing minimize and maximize functions, but hey, its a netbook...
I could not tell you how they plan to market it, however I do know for a fact, there are 4 distinct versions of windows 7. Naming scheme is similar to Vista.
I ran vlite (the vista version of nlite) to slipstream the drivers for my samsung nc10 notebook into the image, and when you first select the drive where you copied the CD files to, it pops up with a menu asking which version of Windows 7 you want to use. Obviously I selected Ultimate, but there are 3 other versions on the beta DVD.
How they plan to market, sell, or package, I could not tell you, hell I do not even know if any of these other versions on teh DVD will go into production, but as it stands right now, in the beta format, there are 4 separate versions of Windows 7 on the DVD
I have one of those wireless smart meters (due to the dog situation for one, and lack of easy access to my back yard as well)
But in my original statement, I may not have been completely clear. The power pirates (tm) :) while they do steal power via the method I described, they don't always use it to power the entire house, just the illegal portions, they still use their normal power supply to run the house itself, which of course would not raise any flags anywhere.