At some point, someone is going to get into *serious* legal trouble through this. Most likely via someone using their connection transfering child porn and getting caught. It only has to happen once. The story will be widely publicised, including all the horrifying details of the caught-in-the-middle victim having their life torn apart, losing their job, being vilified by their neighbours, and having every computer, phone, games console, hard drive and USB stick they own confiscated as evidence. As a result of this, other users will be terrified to share their connection and risk becoming the next victim of an investigation.
Is there any evidence for this? Al Quida may be extremeists, but they aren't entirely stupid - even they must have enough knowledge of US politics to realise that aim is entirely unrealistic. A minor leader they could maybe get, but an 9/11 attacker? Any politician who dared sign the release papers wouldn't only be out of a job, he'll be lucky to make it through the next year without an angry mob destroying his house.
I've not seen it, but I have to approve any way. Fundamentalist Christians fighting oversensitive Muslims? Whichever one wins, enjoy the show.
"The movie is accusing us of following a religion of violence. Such accusations are intolerable - start murdering unrelated people until the insults stop!"
I'm thinking NAS boxes. You want low-power, so they are mostly ARM already - but with 64-bit ARM, you could also throw lots and lots and lots of RAM in for disk cache.
I'm not a cardiologist, but I do wonder if there might be any significent number of hearts too badly damaged for a conventional pacemaker, but for which this implant-wrap could do the job. Intrusive it may be, but if the alternative is a heart transplant, the wrap wins.
Personal preference. Some prefer to learn all the obscure options for each program and craft each command like a work of art. I prefer to learn the most common options and how to make them work together. I don't see how one way is better than the other, unless speed really is critical.
Run a windows fileserver. Have hundreds or thousands of user folders, each containing the desktop.ini that identifies it as a documents folder. Now go and look. And... oh. Every one of those folders just turned into 'Documents.' Windows explorer chokes on a situation like that. We used to delete the desktop.ini files frequently only for the clients to make new ones, until the boss discovered a nifty trick where you can set the server to refuse to write files matching a name filter. Now, no more desktop.ini files. We've had no problems with that.
Slight problem: Those countries have lots and lots of oil. Oil that runs the global economy. So long as the world depends on oil, everyone must try to stay on good terms with the cheap oil supply in the middle east.
But they can't. If that were the case, subjegation would never have been tolerated at all - and throughout history, slavery has always existed in some form.
Exactly! Sure, it looks like bronze-age barbariasm from the outside. But to someone born and raised in that culture would see that as the natural and right way to live, and see us as the immoral ones.
True, but you need to think cross-culturally. From their perspective, multiculturalism is just a way of saying that their ancient, respectable culture or pure thoughts and holy justice is going to be corrupted by western heresy, perversion and blasphemy. It is their duty to defend themselves against these abominable ideas. And if doing so means securing their own grasp on power, so much the better.
It leaves an absence of power, in which new leaders can emerge. Leaders chosen by their political skill and their ability to capture popular support. In most of the middle east, that means hardline Islamists. In much the same way as a Republican over in the US can be fairly sure of getting party support by talking about Christ a lot, promising a culture built on traditional Islamic values tested through the centuries works there. Different language, same concept.
The only solution I see is to invade, but do so openly as conquerors. Don't put on the pretense of going in there to eliminate a threat or oust an oppressor: Send in the troops and declare that the country is now the US Occupied Territory of New Utah, with intention of eventual promotion to full statehood. But you can't do that any more because international politics frowns very heavily upon open attempts at invasion.
Be fair. There is a matter of degree. The UK has an extensive internet surveilance system and a secretive committe who have the power to ban any website without any oversight or accountability and maintain a secret blacklist which all ISPs are obliged to block (In the name of fighting child porn, of course), true - but we hardly ever use such powers. China, on the other hand, frequently and as a matter of routine blocks websites for posting non-government-approved oppinions, revealing facts that could impact the government's support, go against the rulers cultural ideals or even that could compete commercially with domestic companies. They may do the same thing, but China does it to a far greater extent. The UK has a lot of catching up to do before it can claim to be in the same category of oppression as China.
It'll have to be locked down to some extent, to reassure publishers that there won't be rampant piracy and protect against users fiddling around and breaking it. But really, could it be as bad as the other major consoles are?
When they wanted to win the browser wars, they bundled their browser with windows and made it tightly integrate into the OS. It worked.
When they wanted to win the media player battle, they bundled their media player with windows and made it tightly integrate into the OS. Then their CD ripping ability and consumer media editor too, able to save only to their own formats. It worked, though not so well.
And now Microsoft wants to take over software distribution they are bundling their own store with windows and tightly integrating it into the OS. Chances are this will also work.
Why would Microsoft change the way they do things, when it has such a track record of success?
PC gaming dealt with this a long time ago by just allowing variable graphics settings. The higher your specification, the better the game looks. If you've got outdated or low cost hardware you can still play modern games, just at reduced resolution and quality.
From the perspective of the user, there are only two differences. Controls, and a few minor traditions like the use of savepoints rather than savestates in console gaming. This steam box, coming from a PC tradition, is likely to inherit from the PC side. That means PC gamers will have something familiar to use. It could well lure across a lot of PC gamers who until now rejected consoles, but would be attracted by the idea of a PC gaming experience with the convenience and reliability of a console. Just buy the steam box and add keyboard and mouse.
I admin a windows server. My typical thought goes along the lines of this: 'Ok, I need to delete all those desktop.ini files because they are screwing up Microsoft's stupid search. No problem, I'll just ls, pipe grep, pipe xargs... oh. Windows. Right.'
The language handles that for you. The exception gets thrown up and up until finally it reaches the runtime's own 'catch everything' handler. Which usually dumps a load of trace information to the user, tells them to send it to tech support, and terminates the process. Ugly, yes. But it works.
Actually I'm in the UK. But there is a limit to when efficiency becomes worthwhile. I would not be surprised if we have not burned more energy fueling our brains to have this discussion than could be saved by changing the angle-finding algorithm, even summing every iDevice over its lifetime.
I can think of two explainations. It's possible they have a genuine 'for the children!' moral crusader in management, who believes it is the duty of the company to do all it can to keep children from playing games with violent or sexual content. Alternatively, this might be just a stunt intended to boost the company image as the most 'family friendly' console and thus boost sales with the substantial demographic of over-worried parents.
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At some point, someone is going to get into *serious* legal trouble through this. Most likely via someone using their connection transfering child porn and getting caught. It only has to happen once. The story will be widely publicised, including all the horrifying details of the caught-in-the-middle victim having their life torn apart, losing their job, being vilified by their neighbours, and having every computer, phone, games console, hard drive and USB stick they own confiscated as evidence. As a result of this, other users will be terrified to share their connection and risk becoming the next victim of an investigation.
The same reason there are so few tor exit nodes.
Is there any evidence for this? Al Quida may be extremeists, but they aren't entirely stupid - even they must have enough knowledge of US politics to realise that aim is entirely unrealistic. A minor leader they could maybe get, but an 9/11 attacker? Any politician who dared sign the release papers wouldn't only be out of a job, he'll be lucky to make it through the next year without an angry mob destroying his house.
I've not seen it, but I have to approve any way. Fundamentalist Christians fighting oversensitive Muslims? Whichever one wins, enjoy the show.
"The movie is accusing us of following a religion of violence. Such accusations are intolerable - start murdering unrelated people until the insults stop!"
1. Find film posters.
2. Apply QR code pointing to a pirate source for that film.
3. No profit. That's the idea.
I'm thinking NAS boxes. You want low-power, so they are mostly ARM already - but with 64-bit ARM, you could also throw lots and lots and lots of RAM in for disk cache.
There is some interest in ARM for low-power servers and server appliances. Support for more than 4GB of ram would come in useful there.
Still no Warrick though.
I'm not a cardiologist, but I do wonder if there might be any significent number of hearts too badly damaged for a conventional pacemaker, but for which this implant-wrap could do the job. Intrusive it may be, but if the alternative is a heart transplant, the wrap wins.
Personal preference. Some prefer to learn all the obscure options for each program and craft each command like a work of art. I prefer to learn the most common options and how to make them work together. I don't see how one way is better than the other, unless speed really is critical.
Run a windows fileserver. Have hundreds or thousands of user folders, each containing the desktop.ini that identifies it as a documents folder. Now go and look. And... oh. Every one of those folders just turned into 'Documents.' Windows explorer chokes on a situation like that. We used to delete the desktop.ini files frequently only for the clients to make new ones, until the boss discovered a nifty trick where you can set the server to refuse to write files matching a name filter. Now, no more desktop.ini files. We've had no problems with that.
Isn't that true of all computer technology?
Slight problem: Those countries have lots and lots of oil. Oil that runs the global economy. So long as the world depends on oil, everyone must try to stay on good terms with the cheap oil supply in the middle east.
But they can't. If that were the case, subjegation would never have been tolerated at all - and throughout history, slavery has always existed in some form.
Exactly! Sure, it looks like bronze-age barbariasm from the outside. But to someone born and raised in that culture would see that as the natural and right way to live, and see us as the immoral ones.
True, but you need to think cross-culturally. From their perspective, multiculturalism is just a way of saying that their ancient, respectable culture or pure thoughts and holy justice is going to be corrupted by western heresy, perversion and blasphemy. It is their duty to defend themselves against these abominable ideas. And if doing so means securing their own grasp on power, so much the better.
It leaves an absence of power, in which new leaders can emerge. Leaders chosen by their political skill and their ability to capture popular support. In most of the middle east, that means hardline Islamists. In much the same way as a Republican over in the US can be fairly sure of getting party support by talking about Christ a lot, promising a culture built on traditional Islamic values tested through the centuries works there. Different language, same concept.
The only solution I see is to invade, but do so openly as conquerors. Don't put on the pretense of going in there to eliminate a threat or oust an oppressor: Send in the troops and declare that the country is now the US Occupied Territory of New Utah, with intention of eventual promotion to full statehood. But you can't do that any more because international politics frowns very heavily upon open attempts at invasion.
Be fair. There is a matter of degree. The UK has an extensive internet surveilance system and a secretive committe who have the power to ban any website without any oversight or accountability and maintain a secret blacklist which all ISPs are obliged to block (In the name of fighting child porn, of course), true - but we hardly ever use such powers. China, on the other hand, frequently and as a matter of routine blocks websites for posting non-government-approved oppinions, revealing facts that could impact the government's support, go against the rulers cultural ideals or even that could compete commercially with domestic companies. They may do the same thing, but China does it to a far greater extent. The UK has a lot of catching up to do before it can claim to be in the same category of oppression as China.
It'll have to be locked down to some extent, to reassure publishers that there won't be rampant piracy and protect against users fiddling around and breaking it. But really, could it be as bad as the other major consoles are?
When they wanted to win the browser wars, they bundled their browser with windows and made it tightly integrate into the OS. It worked.
When they wanted to win the media player battle, they bundled their media player with windows and made it tightly integrate into the OS. Then their CD ripping ability and consumer media editor too, able to save only to their own formats. It worked, though not so well.
And now Microsoft wants to take over software distribution they are bundling their own store with windows and tightly integrating it into the OS. Chances are this will also work.
Why would Microsoft change the way they do things, when it has such a track record of success?
PC gaming dealt with this a long time ago by just allowing variable graphics settings. The higher your specification, the better the game looks. If you've got outdated or low cost hardware you can still play modern games, just at reduced resolution and quality.
From the perspective of the user, there are only two differences. Controls, and a few minor traditions like the use of savepoints rather than savestates in console gaming. This steam box, coming from a PC tradition, is likely to inherit from the PC side. That means PC gamers will have something familiar to use. It could well lure across a lot of PC gamers who until now rejected consoles, but would be attracted by the idea of a PC gaming experience with the convenience and reliability of a console. Just buy the steam box and add keyboard and mouse.
I admin a windows server. My typical thought goes along the lines of this: 'Ok, I need to delete all those desktop.ini files because they are screwing up Microsoft's stupid search. No problem, I'll just ls, pipe grep, pipe xargs... oh. Windows. Right.'
The language handles that for you. The exception gets thrown up and up until finally it reaches the runtime's own 'catch everything' handler. Which usually dumps a load of trace information to the user, tells them to send it to tech support, and terminates the process. Ugly, yes. But it works.
Actually I'm in the UK. But there is a limit to when efficiency becomes worthwhile. I would not be surprised if we have not burned more energy fueling our brains to have this discussion than could be saved by changing the angle-finding algorithm, even summing every iDevice over its lifetime.
I can think of two explainations. It's possible they have a genuine 'for the children!' moral crusader in management, who believes it is the duty of the company to do all it can to keep children from playing games with violent or sexual content. Alternatively, this might be just a stunt intended to boost the company image as the most 'family friendly' console and thus boost sales with the substantial demographic of over-worried parents.