I was referring, in a general sense, to AMD recognizing all of the things that you mentioned, as well as the idea that those disturbed math doctorates may not be ready to move their apps to 64bit but have the hardware budget to upgrade now so that when they DO tweak/recompile their software for 64bit, when they need it, the hardware will already be ready already. Intel failed to see this, I believe, and as a consequence they weren't as succesful. AMD's strategy of making backwards compatible 64 bit chips the next consumer upgrade meant cheaper 64 bit chips for everyone (Hello HP!), as opposed to Intel's, now abandoned, "2 worlds" method.
Plus who doesn't like cheering AMD at Intel's expense? Aren't they part of the holy trilogy of/. hate? Microsoft, Intel and SCO?:P
If you consider my reply off topic you either don't like The Fifth Element:P or I need to make the analogy clearer. My explanation of the analogy is what makes THIS post even more on topic then the parent:
The Mugger was the spammer
The main character was the user
The video camera was "the spam filter" and
The Mugger's special hat was the mechanism used to defeat the spam filter.
If you don't see that mugging and spamming are essentially the same then thats your problem;)
We use SpamAssassin in between our post office and our smtp server and its been working great at filtering spam. But I always wonder why the spammers don't first try running their spam through spamassassin before sending it us. I mean sure they can't beat the bayes filter, but really theres no excuse for sending out mail that trips any of SA's other filters! WTF are they thinking sending out messages that trip even the simplest of filters like malformed headers or whatever? Goes to show you that spammers aren't interested in spamming people with spam filters if they don't even bother to see if their spam can make it past them in the first place.
Its kinda like The Club(tm). Its just enough to make the spammer go to the other car, so to speak.
Heh that reminds me of The Fifth Element. In the beginning of the movie a mugger fools the main character into thinking the coast is clear by wearing a special hat that had painted onto the top of it what the main character would normally see when looking on his surveillance screen so when the mugger pressed the hat up against the surveillance camera, the main character couldn't tell there was actually a mugger waiting for him on the other side of his door:
46A INT. KORBEN'S APARTMENT - DAY
A thermo nuclear explosion fills a T.V. screen..Which Korben's cat watches with interest.
Korben is about to exit the apartment.
KORBEN Don't watch it all day, it'll rot your mind. Bye sweetie..
In response, the cat meows. Korben opens the door to..A huge gun, brandished by a nervous MUGGER, pointing right in his face.
MUGGER The cash man!
KORBEN Been here long?
MUGGER Don't fuck with me man or I'll blow you into tomorrow!
Unperterbed, Korben looks at the mugger's fearsome weapon.
KORBEN Isn't that a Z140? Alleviated titanium. Neuro charged assault model?
MUGGER (off balance) Uh..
KORBEN You know you could hurt someone with this puppy..good thing it's not loaded..
The mugger is lost. He looks at his weapon.
MUGGER It's not?
KORBEN You gotta push the little yellow button...
Korben points to the button on the side of the gun. The mugger takes his advice.
MUGGER Thanks..
KORBEN You're welcome..
And with lightning speed, Korben blasts the mugger with a straight right hand, sending him down for the count. Korben retrieves the gun.
KORBEN..you know these things are VERY illegal..you could get in a shit load of trouble..I better hang onto it for you..
As the mugger clears his head, Korben opens a drawer next to him which is full of similar guns! The mugger's eyes pop out of his head. He scampers to his feet and runs off.
Korben shrugs, exits his apartment, and closes the door. The cat watches a nuclear holocaust on T.V., uninterrupted.
I want to say that I am pretty sure that we were behind him before he got behind her if you know what I mean but your right, there are too many other factors involved to be sure, but at the time after considering them that was the occam's razor type conclusion we came to.
But come on, its kindof funny that she was on a cellphone:)
Here's a story for ya: While driving over to pickup an iTrip at the Apple Store for my new, free, 4G iPod, my brother and I ended up behind a guy who, coincedentally, had an Apple sticker, a Newton sticker and also a big ol' "Hand Up And Drive!" bumper sticker on the back of his Jeep Wrangler.
Well, we were on a 2 lane road and he was in front of us and was tailgating the car in front of him pretty badly and I could tell it wasn't your normal, this is how I drive all the time, style tailgating. Obviously, this guy was pissed at the person in front of him. Suddenly he swerved into oncomming traffic and passed the car he was tailgaiting, popped back over onto our side into a second lane that had just opened up and then proceeded to scream and yell at the person, who was driving beside him now, while we all slowed and stopped at a stoplight.
My brother and I were dumbfounded! What did this person do to make this guy drive so dangerously?
What we saw through the back window of the tailgaited car, now in front of us, we saw that the woman in the car had been/was on a cellphone! Ohnos! Makes you wonder who the truely dangerous drivers are, doesn't it?
PS - Just to figuratively give the guy the finger over this whole incident, I used my cellphone while driving too! But I didn't use it to talk. Instead I used it to take a picture of his road raging ass: http://flickr.com/photos/celerityfm/312722/
I find the 4G's clickwheel too sensitive for rating songs. Unless I'm rating songs at 5 stars or no stars, its really tedious to try to get it "just so" on 1, 2, 3 or 4 stars. I've read this complaint on a number of forums as well, so I know its not just my iPod.
I got an iSkin EVO2 and I've found it is easier to rate songs while resting part of my finger on the iSkin. Even still, its not perfect. So I think Apple should take this suggestion on how to rate songs and roll it out in the next software update:
1 rotation on the wheel per star. 1 rotation clockwise=add 1 star, 1 rotation counterclickwise=remove 1 star. Simple, precise and can be as fast or slow as the user wants it to be. Everything else seems to be perfect sensitivty for the clickwheel though!
What do y'all think? Is this superior to the current method?
Remember how the first delay of Half-Life wasn't announced until what seemed to be the last possible second? Many people, myself included, accused Valve of sitting on the news of the delay in order to keep sales of bundled-with-hl2-ATI cards flowing under pressure from ATI.
I hope they release HL2 over Steam regardless of the court situation, as they've claimed they will do. They better do it soon though, an injunction could bind them from going against the flow here.
You wanna talk about the real thing vs CG? Just watch the documentary "Under pressure: Making of The Abyss" that comes on the special edition of The Abyss DVDs-- Cameron didn't want to use CG unless he absolutely had to, he wanted to the movie to look as realistic as possible. So instead of using CG they actually built the giant underwater base featured in the movie inside an uncomplete nuclear reactor tower and then filled it with 7 and a half million gallons of water, used real submersibles and ROVs and even had real aliens I heard:) The scenes where Ed Harris was "breathing oxygenated liquid" wasn't real though (but the rat scene was ). For those scenes, Ed Harris was just holding his breath and actually in one scene, between takes, almost drown. Since they were actually shooting the whole thing underwater he had to rely on his buddy divers to give him a spare regulator between takes for those scenes. Watch the documentary for details on the mishap.
Additionally James Cameron stayed underwater for most of his life during that time, and while decompressing he had enough time to review the film that was shot during the day. It was the most expensive movie shoot of all time, only to be eclipsed by Terminator 2, only to be eclipsed by True Lies, only to be eclipsed by.. dare I say it... Titanic.
And now for the good stuff. Apparently Deep Core, the underwater base in the Abyss STILL exists inside of that Nuclear Reactor, they never moved it! Well, 2 hero-nerds decided to sneak onto the property and check it out. The story is incredible and yes, they took pictures!!!
After you read it and are able to find your jaw where you dropped it, give this a read on how hard The Abyss was to shoot (and FFS watch the documentary on the DVD!), then come back and mod this post up, for great jaw dropping justice!
First off I am dumbfounded that you have not sold a single copy of your software:( It looks really nice though and I'm sure if I had a need for an HTML editor I would consider your software!
But I believe we already have some glowing examples of effective anti-piracy measures:
#1) Counter-strike. The video game. Yes, Valve's CD-KEY system actually works here because in order to play the game you have to connect to a server. To be able to connect to a server your CDKEY has to match one of the keys in their database. To be able to play your EXE cannot be cracked/modified as MD5 checksums stop you from joining. I'm sure there are ways around this but I haven't read about anyone who has effectively cracked this mechanism for multiplayer yet. MMORPGs are another good example.
#2) Windows. Microsoft gave up on focusing on the individual user a long, long time ago as Bill Gates realized the real money isn't in individual sales as much as it is in contracts with pc manufacturers to have windows preloaded on new PCs. It would be a little harder for DELL to put a pirated copy of Windows XP on every single computer they sell, so Microsoft eliminates piracy here by making the user buy Windows before they get the computer. Of course, there are ways around this too.
#3) Extreme dongles. Forcing the users to attach a dongle to the computer while running the program makes things harder on the crackers. Not impossible to crack, but more effective then not having it.
But overall the most effective copy protections involve some sort of online "serial # check" or program integerity check of some kind. Since your users are web developers then they'll most likely be online anyways this may work. But another poster pointed out that as long as you are letting people download a "time limited trial version" that unlocks by simply entering a serial code then you've got a problem since the most effective crack is to simply fool your program into thinking trial mode never ends.
It may be better to just distribute a "crippled" version that cannot unlock and let people who buy the software get an "unlocked version" that pings you with a serial number. You start to see 2 serials pinging you, then you block the serial and tell the owner to contact you for a new #, etc.
Course people will think your software is spying on them by pinging back to you.. so definetely go out of your way to explain whats going on to the user.
This seems to indicate something that we don't know about the effectiveness of asking for ID for flights. Maybe there is something about the way legitimate IDs are made that they don't want to reveal. In any case the idea of making a private argument is insane because, of course, the other side will not have a chance for a rebuttal!
I stopped using a Flouride rinse my dentist sold me because of it. Seems kinda scary. Please someone rebut this.. I can't seem to find any good rebuttals.
Whatsup with this *ria renaming stuff.. its as if "ria" stands for "woops we ruined our name so we had to change it to something else"
I look forward to the day where Yahoo cuts Claria loose and they crash and burn forever. I wonder how many overture advertisers realize they are supporting this dispickable band of computer hijackers.
Who else thinks of that cheesy horror flick The Gate When you see all of this amateur rocketry stuff show up on slashdot/etc.
In the movie the kid/main character fires off a Saturn V model rocket to vanquish the big bad guy. A memomorable moment and certainly one that must have gotten tons of kids into model rocketry:)
Slashdot Mirror
Aww come on give me more credit then that! :P
/. hate? Microsoft, Intel and SCO? :P
I was referring, in a general sense, to AMD recognizing all of the things that you mentioned, as well as the idea that those disturbed math doctorates may not be ready to move their apps to 64bit but have the hardware budget to upgrade now so that when they DO tweak/recompile their software for 64bit, when they need it, the hardware will already be ready already. Intel failed to see this, I believe, and as a consequence they weren't as succesful. AMD's strategy of making backwards compatible 64 bit chips the next consumer upgrade meant cheaper 64 bit chips for everyone (Hello HP!), as opposed to Intel's, now abandoned, "2 worlds" method.
Plus who doesn't like cheering AMD at Intel's expense? Aren't they part of the holy trilogy of
AMD deserves the win here for pushing 32 bit backwards compatibility, Intel had to and still is playing catch-up with them in this arena.
Good job AMD!
If you consider my reply off topic you either don't like The Fifth Element :P or I need to make the analogy clearer. My explanation of the analogy is what makes THIS post even more on topic then the parent:
;)
The Mugger was the spammer
The main character was the user
The video camera was "the spam filter" and
The Mugger's special hat was the mechanism used to defeat the spam filter.
If you don't see that mugging and spamming are essentially the same then thats your problem
We use SpamAssassin in between our post office and our smtp server and its been working great at filtering spam. But I always wonder why the spammers don't first try running their spam through spamassassin before sending it us. I mean sure they can't beat the bayes filter, but really theres no excuse for sending out mail that trips any of SA's other filters! WTF are they thinking sending out messages that trip even the simplest of filters like malformed headers or whatever? Goes to show you that spammers aren't interested in spamming people with spam filters if they don't even bother to see if their spam can make it past them in the first place.
Its kinda like The Club(tm). Its just enough to make the spammer go to the other car, so to speak.
Heh that reminds me of The Fifth Element. In the beginning of the movie a mugger fools the main character into thinking the coast is clear by wearing a special hat that had painted onto the top of it what the main character would normally see when looking on his surveillance screen so when the mugger pressed the hat up against the surveillance camera, the main character couldn't tell there was actually a mugger waiting for him on the other side of his door:
..you know these things are VERY illegal..you could get in a shit load of trouble..I better hang onto it for you..
46A INT. KORBEN'S APARTMENT - DAY
A thermo nuclear explosion fills a T.V. screen..Which Korben's cat watches with interest.
Korben is about to exit the apartment.
KORBEN
Don't watch it all day, it'll rot your mind. Bye sweetie..
In response, the cat meows. Korben opens the door to..A huge gun, brandished by a nervous MUGGER, pointing right in his face.
MUGGER
The cash man!
KORBEN
Been here long?
MUGGER
Don't fuck with me man or I'll blow you into tomorrow!
Unperterbed, Korben looks at the mugger's fearsome weapon.
KORBEN
Isn't that a Z140? Alleviated titanium. Neuro charged assault model?
MUGGER
(off balance)
Uh..
KORBEN
You know you could hurt someone with this puppy..good thing it's not loaded..
The mugger is lost. He looks at his weapon.
MUGGER
It's not?
KORBEN
You gotta push the little yellow button...
Korben points to the button on the side of the gun. The mugger takes his advice.
MUGGER
Thanks..
KORBEN
You're welcome..
And with lightning speed, Korben blasts the mugger with a straight right hand, sending him down for the count. Korben retrieves the gun.
KORBEN
As the mugger clears his head, Korben opens a drawer next to him which is full of similar guns! The mugger's eyes pop out of his head. He scampers to his feet and runs off.
Korben shrugs, exits his apartment, and closes the door. The cat watches a nuclear holocaust on T.V., uninterrupted.
==
Damn I love that movie
Was it you in the Jeep? :P
...
Hey don't blame me, blame Flickr those guys are in Beta still so try the link again later. Its got some interesting "features"
I want to say that I am pretty sure that we were behind him before he got behind her if you know what I mean but your right, there are too many other factors involved to be sure, but at the time after considering them that was the occam's razor type conclusion we came to.
:)
But come on, its kindof funny that she was on a cellphone
Here's a story for ya: While driving over to pickup an iTrip at the Apple Store for my new, free, 4G iPod, my brother and I ended up behind a guy who, coincedentally, had an Apple sticker, a Newton sticker and also a big ol' "Hand Up And Drive!" bumper sticker on the back of his Jeep Wrangler.
:P
Well, we were on a 2 lane road and he was in front of us and was tailgating the car in front of him pretty badly and I could tell it wasn't your normal, this is how I drive all the time, style tailgating. Obviously, this guy was pissed at the person in front of him. Suddenly he swerved into oncomming traffic and passed the car he was tailgaiting, popped back over onto our side into a second lane that had just opened up and then proceeded to scream and yell at the person, who was driving beside him now, while we all slowed and stopped at a stoplight.
My brother and I were dumbfounded! What did this person do to make this guy drive so dangerously?
What we saw through the back window of the tailgaited car, now in front of us, we saw that the woman in the car had been/was on a cellphone! Ohnos! Makes you wonder who the truely dangerous drivers are, doesn't it?
PS - Just to figuratively give the guy the finger over this whole incident, I used my cellphone while driving too! But I didn't use it to talk. Instead I used it to take a picture of his road raging ass: http://flickr.com/photos/celerityfm/312722/
IN YOUR FACE CELLPHONE NAZI!!!
I find the 4G's clickwheel too sensitive for rating songs. Unless I'm rating songs at 5 stars or no stars, its really tedious to try to get it "just so" on 1, 2, 3 or 4 stars. I've read this complaint on a number of forums as well, so I know its not just my iPod.
I got an iSkin EVO2 and I've found it is easier to rate songs while resting part of my finger on the iSkin. Even still, its not perfect. So I think Apple should take this suggestion on how to rate songs and roll it out in the next software update:
1 rotation on the wheel per star. 1 rotation clockwise=add 1 star, 1 rotation counterclickwise=remove 1 star. Simple, precise and can be as fast or slow as the user wants it to be. Everything else seems to be perfect sensitivty for the clickwheel though!
What do y'all think? Is this superior to the current method?
Remember how the first delay of Half-Life wasn't announced until what seemed to be the last possible second? Many people, myself included, accused Valve of sitting on the news of the delay in order to keep sales of bundled-with-hl2-ATI cards flowing under pressure from ATI.
I hope they release HL2 over Steam regardless of the court situation, as they've claimed they will do. They better do it soon though, an injunction could bind them from going against the flow here.
No no. It would be the Beatles that would sue her.
g y/2004-09-19-beatles_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technolo
You wanna talk about the real thing vs CG? Just watch the documentary "Under pressure: Making of The Abyss" that comes on the special edition of The Abyss DVDs-- Cameron didn't want to use CG unless he absolutely had to, he wanted to the movie to look as realistic as possible. So instead of using CG they actually built the giant underwater base featured in the movie inside an uncomplete nuclear reactor tower and then filled it with 7 and a half million gallons of water, used real submersibles and ROVs and even had real aliens I heard :) The scenes where Ed Harris was "breathing oxygenated liquid" wasn't real though (but the rat scene was ). For those scenes, Ed Harris was just holding his breath and actually in one scene, between takes, almost drown. Since they were actually shooting the whole thing underwater he had to rely on his buddy divers to give him a spare regulator between takes for those scenes. Watch the documentary for details on the mishap.
Additionally James Cameron stayed underwater for most of his life during that time, and while decompressing he had enough time to review the film that was shot during the day. It was the most expensive movie shoot of all time, only to be eclipsed by Terminator 2, only to be eclipsed by True Lies, only to be eclipsed by.. dare I say it... Titanic.
And now for the good stuff. Apparently Deep Core, the underwater base in the Abyss STILL exists inside of that Nuclear Reactor, they never moved it! Well, 2 hero-nerds decided to sneak onto the property and check it out. The story is incredible and yes, they took pictures!!!
http://www.x-plane.com/adventures/abyss.html
After you read it and are able to find your jaw where you dropped it, give this a read on how hard The Abyss was to shoot (and FFS watch the documentary on the DVD!), then come back and mod this post up, for great jaw dropping justice!
"With the major gone, can Bateau stop the carnage?"
NoOOOOooOoooOoOOoo!?!
First off I am dumbfounded that you have not sold a single copy of your software :( It looks really nice though and I'm sure if I had a need for an HTML editor I would consider your software!
But I believe we already have some glowing examples of effective anti-piracy measures:
#1) Counter-strike. The video game. Yes, Valve's CD-KEY system actually works here because in order to play the game you have to connect to a server. To be able to connect to a server your CDKEY has to match one of the keys in their database. To be able to play your EXE cannot be cracked/modified as MD5 checksums stop you from joining. I'm sure there are ways around this but I haven't read about anyone who has effectively cracked this mechanism for multiplayer yet. MMORPGs are another good example.
#2) Windows. Microsoft gave up on focusing on the individual user a long, long time ago as Bill Gates realized the real money isn't in individual sales as much as it is in contracts with pc manufacturers to have windows preloaded on new PCs. It would be a little harder for DELL to put a pirated copy of Windows XP on every single computer they sell, so Microsoft eliminates piracy here by making the user buy Windows before they get the computer. Of course, there are ways around this too.
#3) Extreme dongles. Forcing the users to attach a dongle to the computer while running the program makes things harder on the crackers. Not impossible to crack, but more effective then not having it.
But overall the most effective copy protections involve some sort of online "serial # check" or program integerity check of some kind. Since your users are web developers then they'll most likely be online anyways this may work. But another poster pointed out that as long as you are letting people download a "time limited trial version" that unlocks by simply entering a serial code then you've got a problem since the most effective crack is to simply fool your program into thinking trial mode never ends.
It may be better to just distribute a "crippled" version that cannot unlock and let people who buy the software get an "unlocked version" that pings you with a serial number. You start to see 2 serials pinging you, then you block the serial and tell the owner to contact you for a new #, etc.
Course people will think your software is spying on them by pinging back to you.. so definetely go out of your way to explain whats going on to the user.
Good luck!
Here ya go http://www.times-standard.com/Stories/0,1413,127~2 896~2375599,00.html...
Indeed. And thats what scares me the most :P
Still though, its fun to try to figure out what SUPAR SECRET thing they MIGHT be trying to protect.
Course, the terrorist would have already figured it out. Laws keep the honest man honest/etc
But atleast we had the trusty iMacFloppy.com to help us! read more here... but don't got to iMacFloppy.com - its become a domain squatters paradise.
This seems to indicate something that we don't know about the effectiveness of asking for ID for flights. Maybe there is something about the way legitimate IDs are made that they don't want to reveal. In any case the idea of making a private argument is insane because, of course, the other side will not have a chance for a rebuttal!
Excellent replies! Thank you, I hand't thought of that angle.
:P
And btw, props to the guy who modded my post as off-topic. I think people shouldn't be allowed to spend their mod points unless they actually RTFA.
am i rite?
WTF? Did I read that right? an inflatable parachute? How does that differ from normal parachutes that fill with air in order to be used? :P
http://seewhatyoushare.com/, as covered in Slashdot before has a pretty good round up of sensitive and sometimes CLASSIFIED documents found on P2P networks.
Interesting non?
http://thyroid.about.com/cs/toxicchemicalsan/a/flo uride.htm and seem to think Flouride is bad. I met a guy on an airplane whose life mission appeared seemed to be to get rid of Flouride forever.
I stopped using a Flouride rinse my dentist sold me because of it. Seems kinda scary. Please someone rebut this.. I can't seem to find any good rebuttals.
My only question is what is the memory requirements of GTray vs GMail Notifier?
Whatsup with this *ria renaming stuff.. its as if "ria" stands for "woops we ruined our name so we had to change it to something else"
I look forward to the day where Yahoo cuts Claria loose and they crash and burn forever. I wonder how many overture advertisers realize they are supporting this dispickable band of computer hijackers.
Who else thinks of that cheesy horror flick The Gate When you see all of this amateur rocketry stuff show up on slashdot/etc.
:)
In the movie the kid/main character fires off a Saturn V model rocket to vanquish the big bad guy. A memomorable moment and certainly one that must have gotten tons of kids into model rocketry