And Java is installed on billions of devices because Android. I wouldn't count Apple as BSD. Nor Android as Java. This is only a piece of their larger pie.
By that I'm assuming you mean anything created after Windows 7. So let's look at the gimmicks. A new Start Screen and Metro Apps.
Let's address that new Start Screen. Yes, for the cumulative 5 minutes a day I spend on the start screen, I am really annoyed. I either see what I want and click it, or I start typing and locate the function / app I need in less than 2 seconds. Yes, this is a bother in contrast to the Windows 7 start screen where I pressed the Win key, clicked on what I wanted as a smaller icon or started typing to initiate a search or navigated a mess of hierarchical menus. Which is much more inconvenient than Windows XP where you hit the Win key and then had to navigate a mess of hierarchical menus.
Now for the Metro apps. Full screen apps suck, granted. I really want to be able to focus on more than one application on my screen at a time. I have dual monitors, so less of an issue for me. But the majority of Metro apps are trash anyway. Office, Internet Explorer, etc... are desktop apps. In any case, Metro apps do support splitting a screen. And again, these are apps that did not exist in Win 7, so take them or leave them.
Disclaimer: I run Linux on all my home and on any other computer I have the option to run it. The game selection is poor and the graphics perform worse than if I just shelled out the $99 for Windows. But I am a idealistic SOB and will always support public domain/opensource and "Go Bernie". At work, I use MS products and will migrate anything to the MS platform when possible. I could go the other way in my work environment, but then who the hell would my boss call when it all went to shit?
"...still Hollywood's wet dream of never letting you actually own any of your own content."
Refer to the license agreement. You never owned the content. You owned the rights to view the content. The only thing you owned is the shiny little spinney thing it came on.
This is why you are entitled (I'm not a lawyer) to view backups of the content in any form you choose. Arguably in a format less than or equal to that which you originally purchased. I don't see how the hell they can legally stop (Not a lawyer) you from creating or acquiring a backup of content you already have rights to watch.
Don't allow phone calls without a pre-negotiated secret. Here, have my phone and a PIN just for you. I will add that PIN to my access list. If you abuse it, I will revoke it. Same for email.
Queued communication is all the rage. Down with instant communication.
They haven't been able to point to a single instance where the TSA has prevented an attack. It's all security theater. So what do we do? Make it more invasive. More government for no tangible benefit.
In all, TSA security procedures are all reactive, not proactive. Failed shoe bomb, everyone now takes off shoes. Mixed liquid bombs, no liquids over X ounces. No sharp thingies. etc... etc...
The only improvement has been procedures on locking the pilot cabin. Sound, sensible security practice.
It seems one of the primary purposes of our government, to keep us safe from foreign threats, has jumped the shark. Instead of a comprehensive and well thought out system, we have many moving parts once again scrambling to make us feel safe. You know, that system we tried to fix after 911? Federal, state and local law enforcement all operating behind their own walls and not sharing. Now we are rebuilding that same broken system with the DHS and TSA.
What decisions will be driven by these data? What are the controls, other samples used to validate the data?
I fear that the data will be skewed by having this sensor on a car in traffic and then that fact not disclosed with the data when it is used to drive policy.
"I'd rather play on Linux in low settings than Windows in high."
I currently run an AMD Radeon on Linux. And yes, the performance is acceptable for my gaming level. However, I'd rather play a game period. The platform, aside from cost, is irrelevant to me.
If the SDK includes information on DRM and the XBox Live protocols, one might be able to devise a compatibility layer on top of a standard x86 compute platform to run (not emulate) XBox One games. But, given the hardware specs, I'm not sure if this would be more economical than just buying an XBox One. You would also presumably require a ripped XBox One BIOS.
8 core AMD Opteron (XBox is custom AMD 8core) = ~$50 ACS Mobo = ~$30 8 GB DDR3 = ~80 8GB Flash Rom = $0 (Emulate via HDD?) Blu Ray Drive = ~$60 500GB HDD = ~$45 AMD HD 7850 GPU = ~100 --TOTAL: $365 (Not including Controller, PSU or HTPC Case) --Xbox One with game and controller: $350
But if you already have the hardware, then cross your finders and wait.
Actually a single overwrite with zero is recoverable on older non-PMR drives by simply realigning the heads a bit to catch the edge of the magnetic track only weakened by the zero wipe (and I mean a very small bit) and re-installing the drive. On PMR, there are actually weak bits left after a zero wipe that are recoverable by equipment capable of reading weak bits. A random wipe is usually effective in all cases. A hammer leaves nothing to chance.
I also don't understand how a drive can be ruled as evidence if nothing is yet discovered on the hard drive. I don't understand how the prosecution can ask for a default judgement without solid compelling evidence of a crime. Without a discovery of the drives contents I'm assuming they had other evidence.
If their reasoning was to show how DRM has a central failing point that would cause legitimate purchased games to fail to install and play due to absence of the central DRM authority. I spent an hour trying to get my sons XBox One online until I realized the network was flooded ( I assumed due to Christmas). Later to find some dickish hacker eff-tards had done a lame DDoS attack.
Take them down to prove always online DRM sucks and peer to peer gaming should be allowed. Although I think MS and Sony removed the "Always On" DRM before release.
Same thing can happen with paper ballot counting machines, it's all just centralized in the elections office. A fold through a voting mark or a stray mark from rough postal mail handling, whatever. There are public testing periods before and after each election to inspect the behavior of the software in counting ballots. Feel free to stop by your local elections office and observe sometime. Or just keep watching youtube videos of people with unfettered access to voting machines finding vulnerabilities which cannot be reproduced in a production environment.
So does this mean they will be releasing a processor that runs applications equally as poor on mobile and desktop? They will probably straighten in out in Intel i8.1 or just skip to i10 where they re-introduce the PCI bus bridge they disabled in i8.
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And Java is installed on billions of devices because Android. I wouldn't count Apple as BSD. Nor Android as Java. This is only a piece of their larger pie.
I once over punched a Hollerith card to cause a buffer overflow on a UNIVAC iron core memory subsystem. First trojan FTW!
Mod parent up.
I can understand the DVR for TV and services that I pay for. For Youtube, NO. You get it free, you pay the price in a sane amount of ads.
If/when this gets to be adhorible, then get creative with the ad blockers.
".. gimmicky OS's..."
By that I'm assuming you mean anything created after Windows 7. So let's look at the gimmicks. A new Start Screen and Metro Apps.
Let's address that new Start Screen. Yes, for the cumulative 5 minutes a day I spend on the start screen, I am really annoyed. I either see what I want and click it, or I start typing and locate the function / app I need in less than 2 seconds. Yes, this is a bother in contrast to the Windows 7 start screen where I pressed the Win key, clicked on what I wanted as a smaller icon or started typing to initiate a search or navigated a mess of hierarchical menus. Which is much more inconvenient than Windows XP where you hit the Win key and then had to navigate a mess of hierarchical menus.
Now for the Metro apps. Full screen apps suck, granted. I really want to be able to focus on more than one application on my screen at a time. I have dual monitors, so less of an issue for me. But the majority of Metro apps are trash anyway. Office, Internet Explorer, etc... are desktop apps. In any case, Metro apps do support splitting a screen. And again, these are apps that did not exist in Win 7, so take them or leave them.
Disclaimer: I run Linux on all my home and on any other computer I have the option to run it. The game selection is poor and the graphics perform worse than if I just shelled out the $99 for Windows. But I am a idealistic SOB and will always support public domain/opensource and "Go Bernie". At work, I use MS products and will migrate anything to the MS platform when possible. I could go the other way in my work environment, but then who the hell would my boss call when it all went to shit?
"...still Hollywood's wet dream of never letting you actually own any of your own content."
Refer to the license agreement. You never owned the content. You owned the rights to view the content. The only thing you owned is the shiny little spinney thing it came on.
This is why you are entitled (I'm not a lawyer) to view backups of the content in any form you choose. Arguably in a format less than or equal to that which you originally purchased. I don't see how the hell they can legally stop (Not a lawyer) you from creating or acquiring a backup of content you already have rights to watch.
Don't allow phone calls without a pre-negotiated secret. Here, have my phone and a PIN just for you. I will add that PIN to my access list. If you abuse it, I will revoke it. Same for email.
Queued communication is all the rage. Down with instant communication.
What do you get out of this over the common wheel? What is the problem they are trying to solve?
So the lesson is, we will continue to attack you until this other company fixes their server. Wow.
In another story, my neighbor is shitting on my lawn because their plumbing is broke. Court of public opinion finds me at fault.
They haven't been able to point to a single instance where the TSA has prevented an attack. It's all security theater. So what do we do? Make it more invasive. More government for no tangible benefit.
In all, TSA security procedures are all reactive, not proactive. Failed shoe bomb, everyone now takes off shoes. Mixed liquid bombs, no liquids over X ounces. No sharp thingies. etc... etc...
The only improvement has been procedures on locking the pilot cabin. Sound, sensible security practice.
It seems one of the primary purposes of our government, to keep us safe from foreign threats, has jumped the shark. Instead of a comprehensive and well thought out system, we have many moving parts once again scrambling to make us feel safe. You know, that system we tried to fix after 911? Federal, state and local law enforcement all operating behind their own walls and not sharing. Now we are rebuilding that same broken system with the DHS and TSA.
What decisions will be driven by these data? What are the controls, other samples used to validate the data?
I fear that the data will be skewed by having this sensor on a car in traffic and then that fact not disclosed with the data when it is used to drive policy.
I would think this would be more useful for... Uranus.
And it is gone.
Thanks Nintendo of America. Protecting copyrighted works that no longer sell anywhere.
"I'd rather play on Linux in low settings than Windows in high."
I currently run an AMD Radeon on Linux. And yes, the performance is acceptable for my gaming level. However, I'd rather play a game period. The platform, aside from cost, is irrelevant to me.
They will learn to open their cages and take up residence in your rosebush while stealing your electricity.
I purchased a VPN router and was about to route through that to avoid Netflix throttling by my ISP. I guess this is out now.
If the SDK includes information on DRM and the XBox Live protocols, one might be able to devise a compatibility layer on top of a standard x86 compute platform to run (not emulate) XBox One games. But, given the hardware specs, I'm not sure if this would be more economical than just buying an XBox One. You would also presumably require a ripped XBox One BIOS.
8 core AMD Opteron (XBox is custom AMD 8core) = ~$50
ACS Mobo = ~$30
8 GB DDR3 = ~80
8GB Flash Rom = $0 (Emulate via HDD?)
Blu Ray Drive = ~$60
500GB HDD = ~$45
AMD HD 7850 GPU = ~100
--TOTAL: $365 (Not including Controller, PSU or HTPC Case)
--Xbox One with game and controller: $350
But if you already have the hardware, then cross your finders and wait.
Actually a single overwrite with zero is recoverable on older non-PMR drives by simply realigning the heads a bit to catch the edge of the magnetic track only weakened by the zero wipe (and I mean a very small bit) and re-installing the drive. On PMR, there are actually weak bits left after a zero wipe that are recoverable by equipment capable of reading weak bits. A random wipe is usually effective in all cases. A hammer leaves nothing to chance.
I also don't understand how a drive can be ruled as evidence if nothing is yet discovered on the hard drive. I don't understand how the prosecution can ask for a default judgement without solid compelling evidence of a crime. Without a discovery of the drives contents I'm assuming they had other evidence.
Except for those doors inserted by your hacked compiler
If their reasoning was to show how DRM has a central failing point that would cause legitimate purchased games to fail to install and play due to absence of the central DRM authority. I spent an hour trying to get my sons XBox One online until I realized the network was flooded ( I assumed due to Christmas). Later to find some dickish hacker eff-tards had done a lame DDoS attack.
Take them down to prove always online DRM sucks and peer to peer gaming should be allowed. Although I think MS and Sony removed the "Always On" DRM before release.
Meh.
'scuze me. I think I have allergies.
I see they finally found that absolute point in the universe that does not move.
In other news: A company so desperate to get into bed with Apple signs away their soul for rainbows and promises.
I boot from the cloud.
Same thing can happen with paper ballot counting machines, it's all just centralized in the elections office. A fold through a voting mark or a stray mark from rough postal mail handling, whatever. There are public testing periods before and after each election to inspect the behavior of the software in counting ballots. Feel free to stop by your local elections office and observe sometime. Or just keep watching youtube videos of people with unfettered access to voting machines finding vulnerabilities which cannot be reproduced in a production environment.
So does this mean they will be releasing a processor that runs applications equally as poor on mobile and desktop? They will probably straighten in out in Intel i8.1 or just skip to i10 where they re-introduce the PCI bus bridge they disabled in i8.