Does it encrypt and sign the files one-by-one so that the admin of the remote site (who you don't trust) can't read, alter or share them on you?
If you don't trust the remote server, why the fuck would you consider using it as a backup site?
There isn't an encryption/protection scheme possible that will prevent the remote admin from outright deleting whatever files on his own filesystem that he wishes to. Oops, no more backups.
I find this article relevant, as I am currently in the process of doing a "hands-on" test design of a modern CPU, using solderless breadboards and individual transistors.
It's the size of a football field and won't run reliably at clock speeds higher than 0.004 GHz, but hey.
Wolfenstein used to have a simple and timeless premise: a Polish-Jewish supersoldier invades a Nazi stronghold and singlehandedly defeats everyone whose path he crossed, including a cyborg Hitler with rail guns for arms.
I don't see why they had to go and complicate the story with "shrouding" and "occult portals" and whatnot.
Had you had amazing foresight and put it in Apple stock, you'd have almost $41,000!
The amazing part wouldn't have been buying AAPL stock in 1981. The amazing part would be not selling it off during any of the low points of the following 25 years.
Also, pirates do it for fun. No, really, they do. Read some nfos from respectable groups like Razor1911, Deviance or Fairlight, and you're bound to find a note on "why" etc.
Those groups may have impressive reputations (in no small part due to their amazing longevity), but I'm not sure any organization with the mission of blatant copyright violation should be called "respectable".
The average moron doesn't think there's a difference between "widescreen" and "HD".
Can you blame them?
Whether by design or coincidence, the following technological transitions are all happening simultaneously right now: - from analog to digital transmission - from 4:3 to 16:9 aspect ratio - from standard to high definition - from CRT to LCD
This, after a 50-year stretch where the only substantial enhancements to the television signal were the additions of color and stereo sound.
Is it any wonder that consumers are confused about what's what?
Sounds interesting, a 3rd party clone to run my old NES cartridges.
If that's the kind of thing you're looking for, the Generation NEX may be up your alley. I've heard that it's fidelity to the original system isn't quite 100% accurate, but it has a number of bells & whistles that help make up for its shortcomings.
It's also 100% legal: it was not released until Nintendo's patents had expired, and no copyrighted ROM code is distributed with it.
The paradox here is that the Famicom (NES) was so ahead of its time there was already in early 1985 a Basic language program sold by Nintendo in Japan
"Ahead of its time"?
Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, it seemed like anything that had a microprocessor in it was packaged and marketed as an "educational computer". Don't make me cite the "BASIC Programming" cartridge for the Atari 2600...
When design is bad, and the product is irrelevant, it's possible it will never even come out in the market. Adaptive Path's own example of KeyboardCo wanting to implement a downloadable music service right on the keyboard is a good example of this.
It's not clear from the review whether "KeyboardCo" is in the business of selling digital pianos, or QWERTY computer peripherals. If the latter, then yes, K-Co's idea was patently absurd.
now every other content producer out there (*cough*Microsoft*cough*) is stuck with this precedent.
I'm not a lawyer, but I did work in the IT department of a law school briefly a dozen years ago. It was my understanding that incidents where a court determines it does not have jurisdiction to hear a case generally do not establish precedent.
So: did someone in Microsoft just like the name, or is it a cunning way to express that they themselves don't quite know what this operating system is actually going to be?
Maybe it's named after the popular melon liqueur, and indicates that the product will be bright, candylike, and cause nausea in those that overindulge in it?
Most people complain if it doesn't act exactly like the proprietary counter part, eg. The GIMP. I bet most the "usability" problems of free software is that it doesn't look and act exactly like the closed-source counter part
Photoshop has years of professional usability research incorporated into its design. What are the human-computer interface credentials of The GIMP team, and what justification can they offer for those interface elements that are different not only from the closed-source counter part, but from practically every other GUI application in common use?
It's dangerous to "chase the tail lights" and not learn from the big players' failures, but it's equally dangerous to reject what they're doing and therefore not learn from their successes.
But "Shit" is not normally considered to be a rude word.
Are you shitting me?
It's part of Carlin's "Six Words You Can't Say" routine (I don't count "motherfucker"; it's redundant due to the inclusion of "fuck" on the list already).
Granted, not all the words on that list have the same shock value today they did back then, and community standards obviously will vary, but I can't conceive of any place in the English-speaking world where "shit" is not considered at best vulgar.
it's not time for a 5-week vacation when there are laws to be passed.
Vacation?
Congressmen (and women) don't exactly go down to Cancun for surfing and vodka shooters when recess is called. Generally, they go back to the area the represent, meet with some locals, and strategize about what they plan to do when Congress is back in session.
It's an important part of a Congressperson's duties to stay connected to their constituency, and one I would not deny by forcing them to stay in the Capitol endlessly, where lobbyists can meet with them but you and I can't.
It sounds to me like this could possibly be explained by some kind of conditional optimization that the compiler puts in for various chips, to take advantage of differences in their designs that can improve performance.
I suppose it's possible that a VIA chip running code optimized for what the benchmark believes is an Intel CPU might perform better than the same chip running the benchmark's unoptimized code path, but as I understand it the VIA Nano is pretty entry-level; any optimizations present in it should probably be available to most CPUs across the market.
Perhaps the unoptimized code is exceptionally sub-optimal, which is itself a way to skew results to make the Genuine* results look better.
I can't believe the furor over this. The only way that it could have been more clear that the Scrabulous developers were profiting off of intellectual property that did not belong to them would be if the app had literally been named "Scrabble" and scanned in the artwork directly from Hasbro's product.
Whether you believe intellectual property, as a legal concept, is just or not is a different issue, but under the current law Scrabulous was a violation. Kudos for the Wordscraper devs for finding a way now to preserve the core mechanics of the game without abusing trademark or copyright, but quite frankly it should have been done six months ago.
You know what? Senator Stevens may be a bit confused about the terminology, and may have what seems to Slashdotters to be an oversimplified understanding of the technologies involved, but the "tubes" metaphor is essentially valid. A network pipeline (see?) has a fixed upper limit on capacity, and when that capacity is reached, it will take longer for packets to reach their destination. These days the delays are typically measured in milliseconds and not days, but the point stands.
If we must mock Stevens for anything, mock him for his apparent corruption and his failure to balance what's good for other states with what's good for his own, and not for being an older man struggling to understand the technological revolution of the past 20 years.
I'll play Devil's Advocate here, but I've played the crap out of Line Rider, Porrasturvat and Desktop Tower Defense, all games made (initially) by a single person (or a very small group). DTD is a lot more fun and challenging than most blockbuster games.
Would you have paid $35 per title to purchase any of those games as a commercial cartridge, without having had the opportunity to playtest them first?
If not, homebrew can't really be considered a threat to the game publishers. Which leaves concerns over piracy at the motivation for Nintendo, et al, in filing suit.
Is this truly a case of fighting piracy, or is it also an attempt to stop homebrew from stealing the market?
Are you fucking kidding me.
Many of the plaintiff companies here -- Nintendo, Capcom, Konami, et al -- have traditions of excellence in video game design dating back nearly THREE DECADES. Who in the homebrew community, though I do love and support them, is going to beat them at their game?
If Scrabulous was good enough on its own terms to succeed without trademark leeching, they should have just called it something else: they would have succeeded irrespective.
Do you think that a Facebook game with a generic name like "Crossword Tiles" would have become the phenomenon that Scrabulous was? Because I don't.
"Stanford, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, and Berkeley"... only Princeton is a member of the Ivy League. Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, UPenn, and Yale are the others.
"The Ivy League" is really just an athletic conference; the schools that comprise it happen to have a general reputation for academic excellence, but no one should believe that there are no non-Ivy schools that are as good as, or better than, Ivies for specific academic programs.
If the question is "What books are assigned reading in the top CS programs?", I'm far more interested in hearing about what they use at Carnegie Mellon and M.I.T. than what they use at Harvard and Brown.
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Does it encrypt and sign the files one-by-one so that the admin of the remote site (who you don't trust) can't read, alter or share them on you?
If you don't trust the remote server, why the fuck would you consider using it as a backup site?
There isn't an encryption/protection scheme possible that will prevent the remote admin from outright deleting whatever files on his own filesystem that he wishes to. Oops, no more backups.
I find this article relevant, as I am currently in the process of doing a "hands-on" test design of a modern CPU, using solderless breadboards and individual transistors.
It's the size of a football field and won't run reliably at clock speeds higher than 0.004 GHz, but hey.
Wolfenstein used to have a simple and timeless premise: a Polish-Jewish supersoldier invades a Nazi stronghold and singlehandedly defeats everyone whose path he crossed, including a cyborg Hitler with rail guns for arms.
I don't see why they had to go and complicate the story with "shrouding" and "occult portals" and whatnot.
Had you had amazing foresight and put it in Apple stock, you'd have almost $41,000!
The amazing part wouldn't have been buying AAPL stock in 1981. The amazing part would be not selling it off during any of the low points of the following 25 years.
They should concentrate their efforts on the other H*R game [link to Paul Slocum's Atari 2600 HomestaRPG].
And here I was, thinking that the first game they should get around to finishing is the Flash-based NES-'em-up "Stinkoman 20X6" game.
Chaps, we've been waiting for Level 10 for almost three years now...
Colonialism has caused things like rape to become the number one violent crime in Africa.
[citation needed]
I'm especially curious to see what sources you have as far as crime statistics for pre-colonialized Africa.
Also, pirates do it for fun. No, really, they do. Read some nfos from respectable groups like Razor1911, Deviance or Fairlight, and you're bound to find a note on "why" etc.
Those groups may have impressive reputations (in no small part due to their amazing longevity), but I'm not sure any organization with the mission of blatant copyright violation should be called "respectable".
The average moron doesn't think there's a difference between "widescreen" and "HD".
Can you blame them?
Whether by design or coincidence, the following technological transitions are all happening simultaneously right now:
- from analog to digital transmission
- from 4:3 to 16:9 aspect ratio
- from standard to high definition
- from CRT to LCD
This, after a 50-year stretch where the only substantial enhancements to the television signal were the additions of color and stereo sound.
Is it any wonder that consumers are confused about what's what?
Sounds interesting, a 3rd party clone to run my old NES cartridges.
If that's the kind of thing you're looking for, the Generation NEX may be up your alley. I've heard that it's fidelity to the original system isn't quite 100% accurate, but it has a number of bells & whistles that help make up for its shortcomings.
It's also 100% legal: it was not released until Nintendo's patents had expired, and no copyrighted ROM code is distributed with it.
The paradox here is that the Famicom (NES) was so ahead of its time there was already in early 1985 a Basic language program sold by Nintendo in Japan
"Ahead of its time"?
Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, it seemed like anything that had a microprocessor in it was packaged and marketed as an "educational computer". Don't make me cite the "BASIC Programming" cartridge for the Atari 2600...
When design is bad, and the product is irrelevant, it's possible it will never even come out in the market. Adaptive Path's own example of KeyboardCo wanting to implement a downloadable music service right on the keyboard is a good example of this.
It's not clear from the review whether "KeyboardCo" is in the business of selling digital pianos, or QWERTY computer peripherals. If the latter, then yes, K-Co's idea was patently absurd.
If the former, it sounds like it just might work.
now every other content producer out there (*cough*Microsoft*cough*) is stuck with this precedent.
I'm not a lawyer, but I did work in the IT department of a law school briefly a dozen years ago. It was my understanding that incidents where a court determines it does not have jurisdiction to hear a case generally do not establish precedent.
So: did someone in Microsoft just like the name, or is it a cunning way to express that they themselves don't quite know what this operating system is actually going to be?
Maybe it's named after the popular melon liqueur, and indicates that the product will be bright, candylike, and cause nausea in those that overindulge in it?
Most people complain if it doesn't act exactly like the proprietary counter part, eg. The GIMP. I bet most the "usability" problems of free software is that it doesn't look and act exactly like the closed-source counter part
Photoshop has years of professional usability research incorporated into its design. What are the human-computer interface credentials of The GIMP team, and what justification can they offer for those interface elements that are different not only from the closed-source counter part, but from practically every other GUI application in common use?
It's dangerous to "chase the tail lights" and not learn from the big players' failures, but it's equally dangerous to reject what they're doing and therefore not learn from their successes.
I'm happy with the 'get it working first - then make it pretty' approach taken by most.
I take exception to your characterization of usability as "making pretty" a piece of software which is already "working".
But "Shit" is not normally considered to be a rude word.
Are you shitting me?
It's part of Carlin's "Six Words You Can't Say" routine (I don't count "motherfucker"; it's redundant due to the inclusion of "fuck" on the list already).
Granted, not all the words on that list have the same shock value today they did back then, and community standards obviously will vary, but I can't conceive of any place in the English-speaking world where "shit" is not considered at best vulgar.
it's not time for a 5-week vacation when there are laws to be passed.
Vacation?
Congressmen (and women) don't exactly go down to Cancun for surfing and vodka shooters when recess is called. Generally, they go back to the area the represent, meet with some locals, and strategize about what they plan to do when Congress is back in session.
It's an important part of a Congressperson's duties to stay connected to their constituency, and one I would not deny by forcing them to stay in the Capitol endlessly, where lobbyists can meet with them but you and I can't.
It sounds to me like this could possibly be explained by some kind of conditional optimization that the compiler puts in for various chips, to take advantage of differences in their designs that can improve performance.
I suppose it's possible that a VIA chip running code optimized for what the benchmark believes is an Intel CPU might perform better than the same chip running the benchmark's unoptimized code path, but as I understand it the VIA Nano is pretty entry-level; any optimizations present in it should probably be available to most CPUs across the market.
Perhaps the unoptimized code is exceptionally sub-optimal, which is itself a way to skew results to make the Genuine* results look better.
WHAT MONEY?
The money you mentioned three sentences later:
These other guys built it, made money off it
I can't believe the furor over this. The only way that it could have been more clear that the Scrabulous developers were profiting off of intellectual property that did not belong to them would be if the app had literally been named "Scrabble" and scanned in the artwork directly from Hasbro's product.
Whether you believe intellectual property, as a legal concept, is just or not is a different issue, but under the current law Scrabulous was a violation. Kudos for the Wordscraper devs for finding a way now to preserve the core mechanics of the game without abusing trademark or copyright, but quite frankly it should have been done six months ago.
They didn't overdo the server hardware, either.
That might explain why their search results are such shite -- not enough hardware being thrown at the "relevance" problem to solve it sufficiently.
You know what? Senator Stevens may be a bit confused about the terminology, and may have what seems to Slashdotters to be an oversimplified understanding of the technologies involved, but the "tubes" metaphor is essentially valid. A network pipeline (see?) has a fixed upper limit on capacity, and when that capacity is reached, it will take longer for packets to reach their destination. These days the delays are typically measured in milliseconds and not days, but the point stands.
If we must mock Stevens for anything, mock him for his apparent corruption and his failure to balance what's good for other states with what's good for his own, and not for being an older man struggling to understand the technological revolution of the past 20 years.
I'll play Devil's Advocate here, but I've played the crap out of Line Rider, Porrasturvat and Desktop Tower Defense, all games made (initially) by a single person (or a very small group). DTD is a lot more fun and challenging than most blockbuster games.
Would you have paid $35 per title to purchase any of those games as a commercial cartridge, without having had the opportunity to playtest them first?
If not, homebrew can't really be considered a threat to the game publishers. Which leaves concerns over piracy at the motivation for Nintendo, et al, in filing suit.
Is this truly a case of fighting piracy, or is it also an attempt to stop homebrew from stealing the market?
Are you fucking kidding me.
Many of the plaintiff companies here -- Nintendo, Capcom, Konami, et al -- have traditions of excellence in video game design dating back nearly THREE DECADES. Who in the homebrew community, though I do love and support them, is going to beat them at their game?
If Scrabulous was good enough on its own terms to succeed without trademark leeching, they should have just called it something else: they would have succeeded irrespective.
Do you think that a Facebook game with a generic name like "Crossword Tiles" would have become the phenomenon that Scrabulous was? Because I don't.
"Stanford, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, and Berkeley"... only Princeton is a member of the Ivy League. Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, UPenn, and Yale are the others.
"The Ivy League" is really just an athletic conference; the schools that comprise it happen to have a general reputation for academic excellence, but no one should believe that there are no non-Ivy schools that are as good as, or better than, Ivies for specific academic programs.
If the question is "What books are assigned reading in the top CS programs?", I'm far more interested in hearing about what they use at Carnegie Mellon and M.I.T. than what they use at Harvard and Brown.