VERY CONVENIENT everyone forgets that the reason people wanted to break the hypervisor was that Sony locked down Linux on PS3 so it didn't have access to the graphics hardware.
That said, something like this was absolutely foreseeable when he decided to publish his work.
Someone publishing a crack for the PS3 was absolutely forseeable once Sony got rid of OtherOS.
It might have been a mod chip or plug-in hack rather than just software, but someone was going to find a way to crack the security to put back what Sony took away.
My story is that I use Flickr, but I don't feel at all confident that it will continue to thrive under Yahoo's ownership.
Still, better them than Microsoft.
If we are just talking about photos, there are even more options. A Flickr Pro subscription allows unlimited photos for $25/yr with (optional) sharing of photos.
Until Yahoo kills the service and deletes all your data.
But I'm sure they'd never kill Flickr the way they killed
Yahoo Photos and
Yahoo Video
and deleted everyone's data, right?
Yeah, I've seen exactly two people using a PSP in public, ever.
And one of them was an Asian kid, quite possibly visiting from Japan.
Whereas even my mom has a DS.
To get the same functionality as is built in to Chrome I had to run with NoScript, CookieSafe, Xmarks, Web Developer and FireBug. That's five. Add in AdBlock and that's half a dozen, versus just AdBlock in Chrome.
Hmm, weird, I could have sworn it was there. I take the "block by default" approach anyway, so it doesn't matter to me, but you might want to report the missing option to the Chromium dev team.
And contrariwise, I'm in the USA, and the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV could have made over $100 from me last year by selling me TV episodes on the iTunes store for $1 instead of my having to go to BitTorrent. (Or, you know, they could sell me MPEG-4 downloads from their own site. Or put the shows on PSN. Or Amazon video. Or Netflix. I'm flexible.)
Chrome has per-domain cookie whitelisting. You can list the domains that are allowed to set cookies, and have it refuse all the others outright.
Or you can have other domains able to set session cookies, which means they're cleared on close.
So yeah, Chrome does that.
...they took away even the *option* to have the status bar.
No, torn between the people that demand that all Firefox features be reduced to addons and the people who want everything in their browser, they gave in to the addon people and made it an addon if you need the old status bar back.
At this point, Mozilla can't win no matter what they do.
I think they could. I just want a little sanity in their choices of what's core browser functionality, versus what you need to install addons for.
Per-domain cookie control and per-domain script permissions are basic necessities on the web if you want to avoid malware and preserve your privacy--yet Firefox developers refuse to put the functionality in the browser. As a result, pretty much any real use of Firefox involves half a dozen add-ons, with consequent reduction in stability and performance.
Ah, but at least the OS X drivers are likely fairly consistent with the bugs due to the limited amount of different mac hardware out there.
I think a more accurate statement is that OS X OpenGL bugs typically don't crash the UI, unlike Linux OpenGL bugs.
OS X OpenGL bugs mostly involve features not working. Like antialiasing, for example. Apple does a lot of work at the Quartz level to get decent antialiased graphics primitives.
After more than 5-6 hours of real work, your error rate goes up significantly. Long coding sessions lead to long debugging sessions.
In fact, one of the things I've learned over the years is to spot when I'm entering the unproductive coding/debugging zone, and force myself to walk away from the computer. Rather than spending another 2-3 hours making the code worse and ending up with a hack that kinda solves the problem, better to solve it properly in 20 minutes the next morning.
It's not that bad if you find a decent company to work for.
i.e. if you get lucky and get your break, which is what he said.
Sure, I know some people in the game industry who have good working conditions. They have their own independent companies. The people who work for the big employers say it's shit.
Again, it's rather like acting. Some actors manage to get into the production side of things or become directors, and work on interesting projects with reasonable working conditions. Most don't.
Sony could potentially stuff the genie back in the bottle.
Maybe. The story so far suggests that an essential part of that would be re-supporting Linux on PS3, and adding a channel for homebrew. If they were willing to do those things, most of the people with the technical skills to keep breaking any new protection Sony rolls out would probably move on to doing what they want to do with the console. In other words, Sony could work with the hacker community instead of picking a fight.
Unfortunately for Sony, I don't think they're that smart.
You may want to consider buying a full Apple keyboard that has Home, End and Delete. Laptops always sacrifice keys to squeeze the keyboard into the available space.
I can't say that I've used the Insert key in years. It doesn't do anything in current versions of Windows, doesn't work in the Linux shell.. I think the only program I use where it does anything is Eclipse, and I've never found it useful there. It looks as if it's increasingly being dropped on new keyboards, in favor of other keys.
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Fring. Uses SIP.
VERY CONVENIENT everyone forgets that the reason people wanted to break the hypervisor was that Sony locked down Linux on PS3 so it didn't have access to the graphics hardware.
On the other hand, skype users are not complete n00bs
Allow me to introduce you to my mother and her sister-in-law. (People who aren't complete n00bs use standard VoIP, not proprietary crap like Skype.)
That said, something like this was absolutely foreseeable when he decided to publish his work.
Someone publishing a crack for the PS3 was absolutely forseeable once Sony got rid of OtherOS. It might have been a mod chip or plug-in hack rather than just software, but someone was going to find a way to crack the security to put back what Sony took away.
My story is that I use Flickr, but I don't feel at all confident that it will continue to thrive under Yahoo's ownership. Still, better them than Microsoft.
If we are just talking about photos, there are even more options. A Flickr Pro subscription allows unlimited photos for $25/yr with (optional) sharing of photos.
Until Yahoo kills the service and deletes all your data. But I'm sure they'd never kill Flickr the way they killed Yahoo Photos and Yahoo Video and deleted everyone's data, right?
I wonder if there's some way to embed a PDF in a Word document? It seems like you can embed practically anything else, including malware...
Yeah, I've seen exactly two people using a PSP in public, ever. And one of them was an Asian kid, quite possibly visiting from Japan. Whereas even my mom has a DS.
To get the same functionality as is built in to Chrome I had to run with NoScript, CookieSafe, Xmarks, Web Developer and FireBug. That's five. Add in AdBlock and that's half a dozen, versus just AdBlock in Chrome.
Hmm, weird, I could have sworn it was there. I take the "block by default" approach anyway, so it doesn't matter to me, but you might want to report the missing option to the Chromium dev team.
Last I checked the average IQ is around 104
Modern IQ tests are defined to have a median of 100.
"Jesus Christ, it's a shark, get in the ute!"
And contrariwise, I'm in the USA, and the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV could have made over $100 from me last year by selling me TV episodes on the iTunes store for $1 instead of my having to go to BitTorrent. (Or, you know, they could sell me MPEG-4 downloads from their own site. Or put the shows on PSN. Or Amazon video. Or Netflix. I'm flexible.)
Chrome has per-domain cookie whitelisting. You can list the domains that are allowed to set cookies, and have it refuse all the others outright. Or you can have other domains able to set session cookies, which means they're cleared on close. So yeah, Chrome does that.
In addition, my experience on Linux is that Firefox regularly hangs and chews CPU, or crashes outright. Chrome doesn't.
No, torn between the people that demand that all Firefox features be reduced to addons and the people who want everything in their browser, they gave in to the addon people and made it an addon if you need the old status bar back.
At this point, Mozilla can't win no matter what they do.
I think they could. I just want a little sanity in their choices of what's core browser functionality, versus what you need to install addons for.
Per-domain cookie control and per-domain script permissions are basic necessities on the web if you want to avoid malware and preserve your privacy--yet Firefox developers refuse to put the functionality in the browser. As a result, pretty much any real use of Firefox involves half a dozen add-ons, with consequent reduction in stability and performance.
Ah, but at least the OS X drivers are likely fairly consistent with the bugs due to the limited amount of different mac hardware out there.
I think a more accurate statement is that OS X OpenGL bugs typically don't crash the UI, unlike Linux OpenGL bugs. OS X OpenGL bugs mostly involve features not working. Like antialiasing, for example. Apple does a lot of work at the Quartz level to get decent antialiased graphics primitives.
After more than 5-6 hours of real work, your error rate goes up significantly. Long coding sessions lead to long debugging sessions.
In fact, one of the things I've learned over the years is to spot when I'm entering the unproductive coding/debugging zone, and force myself to walk away from the computer. Rather than spending another 2-3 hours making the code worse and ending up with a hack that kinda solves the problem, better to solve it properly in 20 minutes the next morning.
It's not that bad if you find a decent company to work for.
i.e. if you get lucky and get your break, which is what he said. Sure, I know some people in the game industry who have good working conditions. They have their own independent companies. The people who work for the big employers say it's shit. Again, it's rather like acting. Some actors manage to get into the production side of things or become directors, and work on interesting projects with reasonable working conditions. Most don't.
What's with the Bizarre randomised Capitalised words? It's painful to Read.
I don't know, but it's an epidemic at the large corporation I work for, which is making me wonder if it's the same one...
Sony could potentially stuff the genie back in the bottle.
Maybe. The story so far suggests that an essential part of that would be re-supporting Linux on PS3, and adding a channel for homebrew. If they were willing to do those things, most of the people with the technical skills to keep breaking any new protection Sony rolls out would probably move on to doing what they want to do with the console. In other words, Sony could work with the hacker community instead of picking a fight.
Unfortunately for Sony, I don't think they're that smart.
I thought they were crazy ditching the scroll wheel and four touch buttons. That's still my favorite iPod.
You may want to consider buying a full Apple keyboard that has Home, End and Delete. Laptops always sacrifice keys to squeeze the keyboard into the available space. I can't say that I've used the Insert key in years. It doesn't do anything in current versions of Windows, doesn't work in the Linux shell.. I think the only program I use where it does anything is Eclipse, and I've never found it useful there. It looks as if it's increasingly being dropped on new keyboards, in favor of other keys.
What kills me with iOS is when apps go fullscreen, and I can't work out how the hell to get them to go back.
That I'm dreaming.