- From the instruction page, Clicked "It wasn't helpful" - Selected "It covered my problem, but was too hard to understand" - Filled in the boxes: Tell us how we can improve this specific article. Tell us how high a volume is safe for 15 minutes of listening. Write a brief description of your problem. You tell us how to lock the maximum iPod volume, without guidance on how high to set it for safe operation.
If enough people do the same, they just may notice it...
Look closely at the picture... For SNES handling, the controller is meant to be used sideways. If you turn it 90 degrees, then the D-Pad and A/B/X/Y buttons are at the right place, so are the L and R buttons under the controller.
Why would you want to slip in product placement, when you can build a whole original game around your product? http://www.classicgaming.cc/classics/tapper/ Subliminal messages are so passé.
I'd probably drink Budweiser today if I drank anything with less than 7% alcohol.
Instead of addressing mass-production issues, maybe it would be time to put up a working quantum computer and see if it turns out useful. I doubt the goal of "10'000 qubits before it is useful" is impossible with today's technology.
Anyone remembers those computers that filled a whole room, and cost the price of a small country?
...why not do a similar thing for everyday software?
In commercial avionics there is a standard that describes the testing (and other) obligations for a software manufacturer. If you see a product certified to DO-178B level A, you know it can be used for a life-critical purpose. If you see DO-178B level E, you know they only slapped the label on something they developed without any formal development (and testing) process.
If software manufacturer are to be obliged to disclose the amount of spyware they distribute, then they should by the same account disclose how many bugs we expect them to distribute. Just make an-easy-to-go-through certification in order to disclose how well you've tested your software to meet the requirements, and you're in business.
If somebody wants to emulate legally without copying the cartridge, buy a GBA cartridge reader that reads the cartridge contents for immediate use by the emulator.
The "copying" accusation goes away, "fair use" stays. Don't worry too much about the patent, it will go away as soon as a competitor is sufficiently pissed off.
I'd rate that essay about about 20% fact, 30% insight, and 50% wishful thinking.
I agree, but would make that 10%-10%-80%.
"One flat quarter" and people get all excited... Just remember that M$ has been wooing investors for years (decades?) by hiding money and shifting the amounts to make appear a profit. And now today, post-Enron and all, the SEC is watching closely against those shady practices.
What we just saw here is probably *finally* a normal fluctuation of the market, not a sign the giant is crumbling. The only difference is that in this new era of "profit-reporting-politically-correctness", the public gets to see under the hood.
Give it a few quarters, and update the analysis. If it becomes a trend, be afraid (or party hard, depending on your portfolio).
I dont see that 'hacking' the GameCube is going to help anybody except for people wanting to pirate GC games. Homebrew projects? Dont make me laugh.
I have to disagree - there's plenty of perfectly legal startups (mine for one) that rely on some level of reverse-engineering to improve on something that already exists. That was going on everywhere in the world for all products until software came along, executives wanted to increase sales, and started to include DRM in the products. For as long as executable code is expected to run on a computer, you can't expect the code to be safe from being copied.
Piracy is indeed a problem, but it must be addressed by giving an incentive to buy rather than putting fragile padlocks on it.
As for the Gamecube, it is an extremely good product by itself. Let people program for it, and you'll be sure to get very good suprises coming out of that.
The only comfort is that unsuspecting Aibo users have very little chance of broadcasting their home contents to hackers passing by. Under existing Aibo software (and probably under the new ERS-7 software), the Wifi card turn off automatically if it doesn't detect an active Wifi network around.
As usual, mostly semi-knowledgeable people are at risk, not the newbies nor the "experts"...
Gamesmania seems to be doing perfectly fine... Rumor is that Bell Canada's ISP made indecent amounts of money with Gamesmania subscribers, especially since almost all employee get a comission on each upsell made on this - and get penalized if they don't make enough. Guess what kind of problems this causes in a company...
Routine rebooting (probably -- I hope) wouldn't be tolerated in the final sytem
Maybe, maybe not... It wouldn't be acceptable for commercial avionics products as it would land them at least a DO-178B level D or E certification (something along the line of "excessive manual operations required by the flight crew"), but this is military product we're talking about.
They're pretty much free to accept whatever code they want, as long as it's written in Ada.
AFIK, not so. Having worked for in the public sector a number of years on pretty-much visible (to the public) software, what kept open-source far away was:
1. Middle-level managers aren't sensibilized to try to reduce cost using Free (beer) software; and
2. As soon as the subject arise, higher-level management are afraid to have only one person on the planet that would be able to support that infrastructure. They see MSCE or Novell-certified technicians rain everywhere, but most often only inexperienced people brag about their Unix skills. And if they do, people associate that skill with data centers, not with acting as sysadmin for a small office.
For what I saw, management doesn't care about anything else. For them, if the software doesn't cost anything to buy, then it must cost a fortune to use.
Videotron are just following the trend they're setting: they have been constantly degrading the quality of service since I subscribed with them 4 years ago.
- 1998-1999: pretty much trouble free, but bandwidth constantly decreasing as a result of increased popularity (are they forgetting about upgrading their infrastructure?);
- 2000: They tried to replace *for*free* a cable modem they *I*bought*, with another one that allowed them more control over my bandwidth;
- July? 2001: They blocked port 80 using the CodeRed excuse. At that point, I got angry, deposited a couple of complaints about agents and supervisors who told me blatant lies when I was discussing the situation with them (Not that they kept the complaints - As I checked later I saw that they never were registered), then I registered with their concurrent, Bell Sympatico's HSE.
It's interesting to note that whatever Videotron does, they play both sides: on one hand they tell you their contract doesn't allow any server, but each employee makes a point of finishing the sentence by "Hey, but if you do, nobody's going to complain!".
Until I was the one complaining because all my web sites were down.
All that made me a lot more mefiant about this practice, and allows me to exercise some crualty to the poor sellers that try to promise me something they don't put in writing...
We're going to lose much more than Google alone if the DMCA stays...
Without reverse engineering tools being legal, today there would (almost) only be IBM-brand computers running IBM-supplied software, Sun-brand computer running Sun-supplied software, and Apple-brand computers running (erm...) everybody's software (but doing only what Apple wants us to).
> You should be writing that type of data on the backs of envelopes and leaving them scattered around your living room...
Not much worse than some "commercial-grade" encryption...
Maybe somebody should consider suing Google under the DMCA. I haven't studied the DMCA with enough detail to be sure of this (and much less studied law, for that matter), but i guess Google is easily guilty of the following "crimes" against modern society:
- linking to decryption algorithms
- linking to reverse enginnering tools
- linking to passwords that could be used to circumvent somebody's copyright.
- storing and distributing all the above (with google's cache)
As I understand current legislation, Google should not even have the right to define what is public or not like they're trying to do. Even the safe-harbour provisions do not immunize them from having to remove unlawful content.
Such a lawsuit would make for an interesting debate, and with a bit of luck could get us all rid of this stupid law.
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> Truly, one of the most beautiful things I ever had the privilege of understanding.
The sequence is ugly as hell, I feel pain for you if that's the most beautiful thing you ever understood. ;)
In all fairness, that hack is pure genius. Hats off.
The person who just shot you may be playing on a hacked xbox, Do you want to continue?
Yes, if your name is Google...
My answer to Apple:
- From the instruction page, Clicked "It wasn't helpful"
- Selected "It covered my problem, but was too hard to understand"
- Filled in the boxes:
Tell us how we can improve this specific article.
Tell us how high a volume is safe for 15 minutes of listening.
Write a brief description of your problem.
You tell us how to lock the maximum iPod volume, without guidance on how high to set it for safe operation.
If enough people do the same, they just may notice it...
Look closely at the picture... For SNES handling, the controller is meant to be used sideways. If you turn it 90 degrees, then the D-Pad and A/B/X/Y buttons are at the right place, so are the L and R buttons under the controller.
Why would you want to slip in product placement, when you can build a whole original game around your product? http://www.classicgaming.cc/classics/tapper/ Subliminal messages are so passé.
I'd probably drink Budweiser today if I drank anything with less than 7% alcohol.
Thanks for the clarification... I hate it when a reporter says "can't mass produce" rather than saying "doesn't scale".
Yes it dual boots - both OS'es simultaneously, but when you first look at it, it chooses a state and shows you a single OS.
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schroedinger's_cat )
(for those who aren't in the know - look up what happens to Schroedinger's cat
Instead of addressing mass-production issues, maybe it would be time to put up a working quantum computer and see if it turns out useful. I doubt the goal of "10'000 qubits before it is useful" is impossible with today's technology.
Anyone remembers those computers that filled a whole room, and cost the price of a small country?
Labrador (up North in Canada) has been disputed territory for years. Maps were showing it as "disputed territory".
Then again, Canadians are not very likely to go up in arms if they are reminded of it when seeing a map.
Make sure to press suit against Giant Tiger so they don't end up taking precious advertizing space from tigger direct.
Oh, and sue Africa too. I heard there were some critters trying to usurp the Tiger name, too.
I found suspicious that nobody was mentioning Buzz Beer in the top-rated posts...
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Here's for whoever don't know about Buzz Beer:
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageSer
Google cache:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:XnZaNc6rh8kJ
Which brewing equipment they used on the set:
http://www.probrewer.com/vbulletin/showthread.php
...why not do a similar thing for everyday software?
In commercial avionics there is a standard that describes the testing (and other) obligations for a software manufacturer. If you see a product certified to DO-178B level A, you know it can be used for a life-critical purpose. If you see DO-178B level E, you know they only slapped the label on something they developed without any formal development (and testing) process.
If software manufacturer are to be obliged to disclose the amount of spyware they distribute, then they should by the same account disclose how many bugs we expect them to distribute. Just make an-easy-to-go-through certification in order to disclose how well you've tested your software to meet the requirements, and you're in business.
If somebody wants to emulate legally without copying the cartridge, buy a GBA cartridge reader that reads the cartridge contents for immediate use by the emulator.
The "copying" accusation goes away, "fair use" stays. Don't worry too much about the patent, it will go away as soon as a competitor is sufficiently pissed off.
C.
I agree, but would make that 10%-10%-80%.
"One flat quarter" and people get all excited... Just remember that M$ has been wooing investors for years (decades?) by hiding money and shifting the amounts to make appear a profit. And now today, post-Enron and all, the SEC is watching closely against those shady practices.
What we just saw here is probably *finally* a normal fluctuation of the market, not a sign the giant is crumbling. The only difference is that in this new era of "profit-reporting-politically-correctness", the public gets to see under the hood.
Give it a few quarters, and update the analysis. If it becomes a trend, be afraid (or party hard, depending on your portfolio).
I have to disagree - there's plenty of perfectly legal startups (mine for one) that rely on some level of reverse-engineering to improve on something that already exists. That was going on everywhere in the world for all products until software came along, executives wanted to increase sales, and started to include DRM in the products. For as long as executable code is expected to run on a computer, you can't expect the code to be safe from being copied.
Piracy is indeed a problem, but it must be addressed by giving an incentive to buy rather than putting fragile padlocks on it.
As for the Gamecube, it is an extremely good product by itself. Let people program for it, and you'll be sure to get very good suprises coming out of that.
Christian.
Aibotoys Aibo Games
The only comfort is that unsuspecting Aibo users have very little chance of broadcasting their home contents to hackers passing by. Under existing Aibo software (and probably under the new ERS-7 software), the Wifi card turn off automatically if it doesn't detect an active Wifi network around.
As usual, mostly semi-knowledgeable people are at risk, not the newbies nor the "experts"...
--
Christian.
Aibotoys Aibo Games
Just my thought: "beaming" electricity was Tesla's bread-and butter. Of course, somebody will come up and say they invented this *and* the Internet.
Christian.
ourfamilysbox.com
Gamesmania seems to be doing perfectly fine... Rumor is that Bell Canada's ISP made indecent amounts of money with Gamesmania subscribers, especially since almost all employee get a comission on each upsell made on this - and get penalized if they don't make enough. Guess what kind of problems this causes in a company...
Of course, all those are only rumours, isn't it?
They're pretty much free to accept whatever code they want, as long as it's written in Ada.
Christian.
AFIK, not so. Having worked for in the public sector a number of years on pretty-much visible (to the public) software, what kept open-source far away was:
1. Middle-level managers aren't sensibilized to try to reduce cost using Free (beer) software; and
2. As soon as the subject arise, higher-level management are afraid to have only one person on the planet that would be able to support that infrastructure. They see MSCE or Novell-certified technicians rain everywhere, but most often only inexperienced people brag about their Unix skills. And if they do, people associate that skill with data centers, not with acting as sysadmin for a small office.
For what I saw, management doesn't care about anything else. For them, if the software doesn't cost anything to buy, then it must cost a fortune to use.
C.
Videotron are just following the trend they're setting: they have been constantly degrading the quality of service since I subscribed with them 4 years ago.
- 1998-1999: pretty much trouble free, but bandwidth constantly decreasing as a result of increased popularity (are they forgetting about upgrading their infrastructure?);
- 2000: They tried to replace *for*free* a cable modem they *I*bought*, with another one that allowed them more control over my bandwidth;
- July? 2001: They blocked port 80 using the CodeRed excuse. At that point, I got angry, deposited a couple of complaints about agents and supervisors who told me blatant lies when I was discussing the situation with them (Not that they kept the complaints - As I checked later I saw that they never were registered), then I registered with their concurrent, Bell Sympatico's HSE.
It's interesting to note that whatever Videotron does, they play both sides: on one hand they tell you their contract doesn't allow any server, but each employee makes a point of finishing the sentence by "Hey, but if you do, nobody's going to complain!".
Until I was the one complaining because all my web sites were down.
All that made me a lot more mefiant about this practice, and allows me to exercise some crualty to the poor sellers that try to promise me something they don't put in writing...
C.
We're going to lose much more than Google alone if the DMCA stays...
Without reverse engineering tools being legal, today there would (almost) only be IBM-brand computers running IBM-supplied software, Sun-brand computer running Sun-supplied software, and Apple-brand computers running (erm...) everybody's software (but doing only what Apple wants us to).
The world would be a lot different...
C.
> You should be writing that type of data on the backs of envelopes and leaving them scattered around your living room...
Not much worse than some "commercial-grade" encryption...
Maybe somebody should consider suing Google under the DMCA. I haven't studied the DMCA with enough detail to be sure of this (and much less studied law, for that matter), but i guess Google is easily guilty of the following "crimes" against modern society:
- linking to decryption algorithms
- linking to reverse enginnering tools
- linking to passwords that could be used to circumvent somebody's copyright.
- storing and distributing all the above (with google's cache)
As I understand current legislation, Google should not even have the right to define what is public or not like they're trying to do. Even the safe-harbour provisions do not immunize them from having to remove unlawful content.
Such a lawsuit would make for an interesting debate, and with a bit of luck could get us all rid of this stupid law.
C.