The usefulness of an auction site depends upon the number of users - thus it's almost impossible for a small site to succeed, just because it's small. A similar situation applies in places like social networking or IM services: People won't join unless their friends already have. It's not impossible to break into such a market, but it requires a great deal of luck, excellent management and a lot of capital.
This doesn't apply so much to publishing, but you still have the traditional barriers to entry there: Publishers arn't going to be interested in your distribution system until they consider you a serious contender, which means you need either a ton of money to spend on marketing or the backing of an established and respected player.
At a guess... only one of their employees should have access to the game. Which probably means they fired someone, or just seriously overworked them. Leading to a 'If I'm going down, I'm taking you wish me!' moment.
It's not just closed source, but closed standard. Microsoft keeps the specification officially secret (Though I believe you can see if it you agree to an agreemet saying you won't disclose or actually impliment it). That linux can use NTFS is a tribute to many hours of dedicated reverse-engineering and various tidbits of information that escaped until a full picture could be assembled,
h264 we might be stuck with for longer than that. No doubt better technologies will come along, but don't underestimate the power of entrenchment. Remember why the MTU on ethernet is 1500 bytes?
China did something similar with their lacquer technology, and regions of South America struggled to protect their valuable control of the rubber tree. Then the British took over the world and aquired them. That is why everyone got to enjoy cheap rubber and japanned furniture, until oil-derived chemicals largely replaced them and became even cheaper.
I would not be surprised if some companies are already planning how they will lobby for patent term extensions. Copyright started out as 14 years, too.
A junk patent is a valuable thing these days. It may not stand up in court, but it doesn't have to - the costs of fighting it would be so great, most people would rather just settle. It's cheaper than winning.
Below university level (Up to eighteen years old) the majority of the cost of schooling isn't really in education. It's in keeping the little brats under control. Enough staff to watch them, break up the fights, keep them paying attention to learning rather than playing games, chatting or stareing into space. Then the cost of assessment, testing and such - because it's not enough to understand a subject. The pupils also need to be able to prove their understanding in the easily-demonstrated and consistant form of exam results, in order to win jobs.
I am only a lowly IT technician. But I think I may be able to put a word in with the science faculty. Teachers like to show the occasional video in class to shut the children up while they get some marking done.
dncashman just made Duke throw around cash when you pressed 'use.' I suspect it was used by the creators for stress-testing the engine, as every note was a seperate sprite and continuous use would eventually exaust available memory.
Theora never had the backing from a major player that it would have needed to be considered a threat. WebM has Google, which means it it worth noticing. In deciding which standard will dominate (and not just in video), marketing and endorsements matter more than which is superior.
Providing it's also affordable for everyone to continually stream the data to a server elsewhere over the future version of the cellphone network. Otherwise any criminal only need learn exactly where he needs to smash the sock-full-of-rocks in order to destroy the implant.
Or there is a third option. The body does attempt to expel forign objects, or failing that to encapsulate them in a covering in order to prevent poisoning. Even non-living objects. They end up inside cysts. That's why implants have to be made of or at least coated with bioinert materials - you can't use just any old metal. It took many years of research just to find a way to transfuse blood without it clotting in the needle or tube. If that's whats happening, I imagine that the dumbing-down in reporting would turn it into simple 'rejection.'
- The game, Duke Nukem 3d. Yes, it's nothing special looking back. But for the time, the technology was very advanced. People playing this game had only just finished playing Doom II and it's ilk, so DN3D was something special there. It's use of humor was something never before seen in the genre, and that it sometimes got just a little raunchy just made it even funnier. It didn't actually have anything even slightly explicit, but by the standards of the time, it was new.
-The timeing. Just as you said: To most of the slashdot crowd, DN3D was one of the first FPSs they ever played. Of course they have fond memories - as well as all the cheat codes burned into their brains.
In theory, any country with a fiat currency could erase it's debts overnight. In practice, they take one look at Zimbabwae and the wheelbarrows full of cash and decide that maybe that isn't such a good idea after all.
Because my search space is every possible password of length 1-5 characters using the upper, lower, number and everything else printable on my keyboard. Unless you're using accents or non-english characters, that should do it.
In terms of time-memory tradeoff, it falls in between simple brute force and true rainbow tables. It's much faster than rainbows, but requires larger tables.
The two features that make this attack possible - embedding icons into executables and hiding extensions by default - were both introduced in Windows 95. The countermeasure of UAC wasn't introduced until Windows Vista.
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The usefulness of an auction site depends upon the number of users - thus it's almost impossible for a small site to succeed, just because it's small. A similar situation applies in places like social networking or IM services: People won't join unless their friends already have. It's not impossible to break into such a market, but it requires a great deal of luck, excellent management and a lot of capital.
This doesn't apply so much to publishing, but you still have the traditional barriers to entry there: Publishers arn't going to be interested in your distribution system until they consider you a serious contender, which means you need either a ton of money to spend on marketing or the backing of an established and respected player.
"never really understood why video sites don't have a download option"
That's obvious. If you download the video, you see the adverts once. If you stream it, you see new adverts every time you watch.
"I think that the information content can in some way be measured by what the size of the maximum compressed version of the object is"
You just reinvented Kolmogorov complexity.
At a guess... only one of their employees should have access to the game. Which probably means they fired someone, or just seriously overworked them. Leading to a 'If I'm going down, I'm taking you wish me!' moment.
That would be very hard to change, as so many applications would need to be altered.
It's not just closed source, but closed standard. Microsoft keeps the specification officially secret (Though I believe you can see if it you agree to an agreemet saying you won't disclose or actually impliment it). That linux can use NTFS is a tribute to many hours of dedicated reverse-engineering and various tidbits of information that escaped until a full picture could be assembled,
h264 we might be stuck with for longer than that. No doubt better technologies will come along, but don't underestimate the power of entrenchment. Remember why the MTU on ethernet is 1500 bytes?
China did something similar with their lacquer technology, and regions of South America struggled to protect their valuable control of the rubber tree. Then the British took over the world and aquired them. That is why everyone got to enjoy cheap rubber and japanned furniture, until oil-derived chemicals largely replaced them and became even cheaper.
I would not be surprised if some companies are already planning how they will lobby for patent term extensions. Copyright started out as 14 years, too.
A junk patent is a valuable thing these days. It may not stand up in court, but it doesn't have to - the costs of fighting it would be so great, most people would rather just settle. It's cheaper than winning.
Below university level (Up to eighteen years old) the majority of the cost of schooling isn't really in education. It's in keeping the little brats under control. Enough staff to watch them, break up the fights, keep them paying attention to learning rather than playing games, chatting or stareing into space. Then the cost of assessment, testing and such - because it's not enough to understand a subject. The pupils also need to be able to prove their understanding in the easily-demonstrated and consistant form of exam results, in order to win jobs.
I am only a lowly IT technician. But I think I may be able to put a word in with the science faculty. Teachers like to show the occasional video in class to shut the children up while they get some marking done.
I don't think it would matter. China's domestic technology companies are more than capable of maintaining and expanding it.
I played on PC. I recall the pole dancers as having large breasts, but not exposed breasts. But maybe that's because I didn't often give them money.
You forgot dncashman, dnkroz and dnclip.
dncashman just made Duke throw around cash when you pressed 'use.' I suspect it was used by the creators for stress-testing the engine, as every note was a seperate sprite and continuous use would eventually exaust available memory.
Theora never had the backing from a major player that it would have needed to be considered a threat. WebM has Google, which means it it worth noticing. In deciding which standard will dominate (and not just in video), marketing and endorsements matter more than which is superior.
Providing it's also affordable for everyone to continually stream the data to a server elsewhere over the future version of the cellphone network. Otherwise any criminal only need learn exactly where he needs to smash the sock-full-of-rocks in order to destroy the implant.
I think this technology may be too sophisticated for him.
Or there is a third option. The body does attempt to expel forign objects, or failing that to encapsulate them in a covering in order to prevent poisoning. Even non-living objects. They end up inside cysts. That's why implants have to be made of or at least coated with bioinert materials - you can't use just any old metal. It took many years of research just to find a way to transfuse blood without it clotting in the needle or tube. If that's whats happening, I imagine that the dumbing-down in reporting would turn it into simple 'rejection.'
Pirated? I don't see any link at all, other than both having aliens in. Very different aliens at that.
Two reasons, really:
- The game, Duke Nukem 3d. Yes, it's nothing special looking back. But for the time, the technology was very advanced. People playing this game had only just finished playing Doom II and it's ilk, so DN3D was something special there. It's use of humor was something never before seen in the genre, and that it sometimes got just a little raunchy just made it even funnier. It didn't actually have anything even slightly explicit, but by the standards of the time, it was new.
-The timeing. Just as you said: To most of the slashdot crowd, DN3D was one of the first FPSs they ever played. Of course they have fond memories - as well as all the cheat codes burned into their brains.
Credit is also the name of the currency in every science fiction novel ever.
In theory, any country with a fiat currency could erase it's debts overnight. In practice, they take one look at Zimbabwae and the wheelbarrows full of cash and decide that maybe that isn't such a good idea after all.
Because my search space is every possible password of length 1-5 characters using the upper, lower, number and everything else printable on my keyboard. Unless you're using accents or non-english characters, that should do it.
In terms of time-memory tradeoff, it falls in between simple brute force and true rainbow tables. It's much faster than rainbows, but requires larger tables.
The two features that make this attack possible - embedding icons into executables and hiding extensions by default - were both introduced in Windows 95. The countermeasure of UAC wasn't introduced until Windows Vista.