But Apple does track all your purchases, you can bring up your entire purchasing history in iTunes, what would it cost Apple to allow you to redownload tracks? They are still restricted so they would be of no use to anyone other than the owner of the iTunes account. Surely they must have the bandwidth for it.
Where does hydrogen come from? What process do you use to extract it? What do you use to make the containers for storing it? What do you use to lubricate your vehicles?
What I meant was you can't just think of oil as an energy source, it is also a vital part of practically every other product or service, if not in the end result then at least at some point during manufacture.
Like to see you come up with a substitute for Oil. It has taken millions of years to form and is being used up at an ever increasing rate. While we might come up with alternatives for an energy source there are many products and industrial processes that depend on oil or it's derivatives.
Sometimes there just isn't an alternative to be found.
So what are the current security problems with the NT Kernel?
Theres not really a lot that needs improving in that respect, there are undoubtedly many problems with Windows, but they mostly stem from high priveleged services being exploitable and the default configuration not taking full advantage of the security features that are present. These are issues of configuration and implementation rather than fundamental problems with the design.
Those were probably.deploy files, not actual executables..deploy is part of Microsofts new ClickOnce deployment tool, similar to Java Web Start. The deploy file tells the.Net runtime where to locate the manifest, or description of the application. The manifest contains the location of the.Net assemblies that make up the Application, and the set of permissions that the application thinks it will require to run, eg file system access, network access etc.. The user is presented with a dialog that explains the potential issues of an Application running with those permissions and the choice to allow or deny certain permissions. The.Net environment then creates a sandbox with just the selected permissons before downloading the actual assemblies.
Windows 2000 introduced window alpha blending through the use of the new Layered Windows APIs which allow the window manager to retain a copy of the contents of a window so it can composite them on the desktop. Any acceptable expose' clone for Windows would need to hack into this mechanism rather than capturing the contents of each window manually.
Well Avalon works on my Nvidia Vanta at work, and thats a pretty crappy graphics card. It just uses software rendering instead. You wouldn't get the Aero Glass UI in Longhorn, but Avalong apps will work slow but fine.
I don't have an xbox, so what happens when it crashes? Do you get a bluescreen like this, or does it just freeze up or reset?
I'm not saying xbox games can never crash, but I didn't think they bluescreened like this. This was just because it was playing a prerelease debug build with the assertions left in.
First this is a games console, not a general purpose computer. A console typically allow much closer access to the hardware for performance reasons. So code running on a console does not have the same protections as code on a general purpose computer.
Second, this is not a kernel faliure, it is an Assertion caused by a low memory condition. The console OS is still running and is still accepting user input, hence "mini-dump", "continue", or "break".
An xbox doesn't have a general purpose windowing system underneath, so it can't display a nice polite error message, it just writes directly to the screen.
If you were developing and debugging a console game and you hit an assertion failure what would you expect it to do?
Well you are stealing some of the barbers time and effort he expended cutting your hair, but you are also giving the barber some of your property in the form of excess hair. It depends on whether the barber thinks value of your excess hair he now posesses is worth the time he spent cutting it off your head.
It wasn't Media Center that bluescreened, it was an XBox. The Media Center PC ran fine throughout the presentation, it just wasn't getting any signals from Bills remote. The XBox was running an unreleased preview of a game due out in April. I think it was a debug build because the error that appeared was an Assertion.
The screen read:
Assertion Failure
Out of System Memory. If you are loading, try decreasing your...
File: \mainHeap.cpp Function: SimpleHeap::Alloc Line: 355 Version 1.04.12.14.47.. PERF Build
Press A for a mini-dump Press B to continue Press X to break.
I've never done any XBox development, but it appears that type of error is caused by a problem in user code rather than a kernel failure. Sure they ought to fix it before the game is released, but it doesn't seem like a major problem. How often do Xboxes bluescreen in the real world running a release build?
Thats exactly what happened in this case, a pre-release game failed to work properly. The BSOD was a debug assertion on an xbox. What would you expect to happen when you hit a user-mode software error in a development release of a console game? It didn't actually crash the whole system, just stopped running and gave you three options, mini-dump, continue or break.
It wasn't Media Center that bluescreened, it was an XBox. The Media Center PC ran fine throughout the presentation, it just wasn't getting any signals from Bills remote. The XBox was running an unreleased preview of a game due out in April. I think it was a debug build because the error that appeared was an Assertion.
The screen read:
Assertion Failure
Out of System Memory. If you are loading, try decreasing your...
File: \mainHeap.cpp Function: SimpleHeap::Alloc Line: 355 Version 1.04.12.14.47.. PERF Build
Press A for a mini-dump Press B to continue Press X to break.
I've never done any XBox development, but it appears that type of error is caused by a problem in user code rather than a kernel failure. Sure they ought to fix it before the game is released, but it doesn't seem like a major problem. How often do Xboxes bluescreen in the real world running a release build?
You can get it to respond to sound more than once. Create a sound program to do whatever your response is, then create a master program made up of several copies of the "Listen" command. The master program can contain 14 instructions, so you can program it to respond to sound 14 times before stopping.
It is also possible to get it to turn and walk at the same time.
See www.robosapien.tk for more tips and tricks, hacks and mods.
This was on an XBox, which has a very much slimmed down Win2k kernel, shared memory between OS and graphics and much tighter access between the game software and the hardware. Its not so surprising that a buggy incomplete game could cause the system to lock up. I bet it happens all the time on PS2s as well during development.
Communism means everyone has a house, a tv and a car, but they are all the same model and not very good quality. You can still dream about being rich, but it is difficult to achieve it through your own efforts other than sucking up to those in control.
I want one too, but they won't have anything like that available for a few years. The roll up screen technology doesn't seem to be getting anywhere fast. http://www.jjambproductions.com/heroprops3.html
The standards present/coming to Mozilla based browsers do present a big challenge to MS. People will be able to write web based apps that can use XUL, CSS, SVG, XForms, ECMAScript on the Client and know that it will work exactly the same on every OS because every OS supports a version of Mozilla.
Since Mozilla is free it makes a lot more sense would for developers to make a version of Mozilla a requirement for a particular product than it would to have Longhorn as a requirement.
If full SVG and Xforms can arrive on every platform before Longhorn gets here with Avalon, Indigo and XAML I can see people being tempted to use the open standard and cross platform supported technologies instead.
They were in fact working on something like that, called Castle. You exchange certificates or "information cards" with your friends and family and they become part of your Castle or serverless domain. With WinFS synch you were supposed to be able to search and access files shared accross all the Castle members. I don't know if that feature has been dropped along with WinFS, but it sounded interesting. They have already started introducing the concept of Information Cards in the new MSN Messenger 7 Beta.
They already have an IR tranceiver on them, it was the precursor to Bluetooth. All you need is the right bit of software to turn it into a universal remote.
If it is still HD I doubt it will play back on an XBox, you need something like a 2.4GHz P4 to play it back on a PC. If its been compressed to divx or something to play back on an XBox it is no longer any different that watching the original feature.
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Ah so its a proprietary calender, can't have that. He'd patent it and we would all have to buy licenses off him to find out if the next year was to have a Newton week or not. Imagine how much money he could get from all the calender publishers all over the world.
We wouldn't be able to tell the date on an open source operating system without risking paying a license for the calender library.
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But Apple does track all your purchases, you can bring up your entire purchasing history in iTunes, what would it cost Apple to allow you to redownload tracks? They are still restricted so they would be of no use to anyone other than the owner of the iTunes account. Surely they must have the bandwidth for it.
But would you want to sacrifice your PC? Would people be willing to sacrifice the efficiencies we gain from all our technology?
Where does hydrogen come from? What process do you use to extract it? What do you use to make the containers for storing it? What do you use to lubricate your vehicles?
What I meant was you can't just think of oil as an energy source, it is also a vital part of practically every other product or service, if not in the end result then at least at some point during manufacture.
Like to see you come up with a substitute for Oil. It has taken millions of years to form and is being used up at an ever increasing rate. While we might come up with alternatives for an energy source there are many products and industrial processes that depend on oil or it's derivatives.
Sometimes there just isn't an alternative to be found.
So what are the current security problems with the NT Kernel?
Theres not really a lot that needs improving in that respect, there are undoubtedly many problems with Windows, but they mostly stem from high priveleged services being exploitable and the default configuration not taking full advantage of the security features that are present. These are issues of configuration and implementation rather than fundamental problems with the design.
Those were probably .deploy files, not actual executables. .deploy is part of Microsofts new ClickOnce deployment tool, similar to Java Web Start. The deploy file tells the .Net runtime where to locate the manifest, or description of the application. The manifest contains the location of the .Net assemblies that make up the Application, and the set of permissions that the application thinks it will require to run, eg file system access, network access etc.. .Net environment then creates a sandbox with just the selected permissons before downloading the actual assemblies.
The user is presented with a dialog that explains the potential issues of an Application running with those permissions and the choice to allow or deny certain permissions. The
You didn't notice they released it yesterday? It's called Avalon.
.Net Code Access Security system.
Except this time they took security into account when they designed it, so it's based around the
Windows 2000 introduced window alpha blending through the use of the new Layered Windows APIs which allow the window manager to retain a copy of the contents of a window so it can composite them on the desktop. Any acceptable expose' clone for Windows would need to hack into this mechanism rather than capturing the contents of each window manually.
Well Avalon works on my Nvidia Vanta at work, and thats a pretty crappy graphics card. It just uses software rendering instead. You wouldn't get the Aero Glass UI in Longhorn, but Avalong apps will work slow but fine.
I don't have an xbox, so what happens when it crashes? Do you get a bluescreen like this, or does it just freeze up or reset?
I'm not saying xbox games can never crash, but I didn't think they bluescreened like this. This was just because it was playing a prerelease debug build with the assertions left in.
First this is a games console, not a general purpose computer.
A console typically allow much closer access to the hardware for performance reasons. So code running on a console does not have the same protections as code on a general purpose computer.
Second, this is not a kernel faliure, it is an Assertion caused by a low memory condition. The console OS is still running and is still accepting user input, hence "mini-dump", "continue", or "break".
An xbox doesn't have a general purpose windowing system underneath, so it can't display a nice polite error message, it just writes directly to the screen.
If you were developing and debugging a console game and you hit an assertion failure what would you expect it to do?
Well you are stealing some of the barbers time and effort he expended cutting your hair, but you are also giving the barber some of your property in the form of excess hair. It depends on whether the barber thinks value of your excess hair he now posesses is worth the time he spent cutting it off your head.
It wasn't Media Center that bluescreened, it was an XBox. The Media Center PC ran fine throughout the presentation, it just wasn't getting any signals from Bills remote.
The XBox was running an unreleased preview of a game due out in April. I think it was a debug build because the error that appeared was an Assertion.
The screen read:
Assertion Failure
Out of System Memory. If you are loading, try decreasing your...
File: \mainHeap.cpp
Function: SimpleHeap::Alloc
Line: 355
Version 1.04.12.14.47..
PERF Build
Press A for a mini-dump
Press B to continue
Press X to break.
I've never done any XBox development, but it appears that type of error is caused by a problem in user code rather than a kernel failure. Sure they ought to fix it before the game is released, but it doesn't seem like a major problem. How often do Xboxes bluescreen in the real world running a release build?
Thats exactly what happened in this case, a pre-release game failed to work properly. The BSOD was a debug assertion on an xbox.
What would you expect to happen when you hit a user-mode software error in a development release of a console game?
It didn't actually crash the whole system, just stopped running and gave you three options, mini-dump, continue or break.
The XBox was running an unreleased preview of a game due out in April. I think it was a debug build because the error that appeared was an Assertion.
The screen read:
I've never done any XBox development, but it appears that type of error is caused by a problem in user code rather than a kernel failure. Sure they ought to fix it before the game is released, but it doesn't seem like a major problem. How often do Xboxes bluescreen in the real world running a release build?
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You can get it to respond to sound more than once. Create a sound program to do whatever your response is, then create a master program made up of several copies of the "Listen" command. The master program can contain 14 instructions, so you can program it to respond to sound 14 times before stopping.
It is also possible to get it to turn and walk at the same time.
See www.robosapien.tk for more tips and tricks, hacks and mods.
This was on an XBox, which has a very much slimmed down Win2k kernel, shared memory between OS and graphics and much tighter access between the game software and the hardware.
Its not so surprising that a buggy incomplete game could cause the system to lock up. I bet it happens all the time on PS2s as well during development.
Communism means everyone has a house, a tv and a car, but they are all the same model and not very good quality.
You can still dream about being rich, but it is difficult to achieve it through your own efforts other than sucking up to those in control.
I want one too, but they won't have anything like that available for a few years. The roll up screen technology doesn't seem to be getting anywhere fast.
http://www.jjambproductions.com/heroprops3.html
The standards present/coming to Mozilla based browsers do present a big challenge to MS. People will be able to write web based apps that can use XUL, CSS, SVG, XForms, ECMAScript on the Client and know that it will work exactly the same on every OS because every OS supports a version of Mozilla.
Since Mozilla is free it makes a lot more sense would for developers to make a version of Mozilla a requirement for a particular product than it would to have Longhorn as a requirement.
If full SVG and Xforms can arrive on every platform before Longhorn gets here with Avalon, Indigo and XAML I can see people being tempted to use the open standard and cross platform supported technologies instead.
They were in fact working on something like that, called Castle. You exchange certificates or "information cards" with your friends and family and they become part of your Castle or serverless domain. With WinFS synch you were supposed to be able to search and access files shared accross all the Castle members. I don't know if that feature has been dropped along with WinFS, but it sounded interesting. They have already started introducing the concept of Information Cards in the new MSN Messenger 7 Beta.
They already have an IR tranceiver on them, it was the precursor to Bluetooth. All you need is the right bit of software to turn it into a universal remote.
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If it is still HD I doubt it will play back on an XBox, you need something like a 2.4GHz P4 to play it back on a PC.
If its been compressed to divx or something to play back on an XBox it is no longer any different that watching the original feature.
Ah so its a proprietary calender, can't have that. He'd patent it and we would all have to buy licenses off him to find out if the next year was to have a Newton week or not.
Imagine how much money he could get from all the calender publishers all over the world.
We wouldn't be able to tell the date on an open source operating system without risking paying a license for the calender library.