They released Vista, plugging years worth of holes, and were promptly tar and feathered for it.
(Yes, Vista did have honest to goodness suckage, but most of the complaints centered around the fact that they actually fixed their security)
What I was alluding to was Microsoft's attempt to have people who identified security holes in Windows reported to Department of Homeland Security as potential threats to national security, because as anyone knows, if you're looking for those kinds of things, you're a security risk because everyone runs everything on Windows.
Bug finders now still get paid. but those who don't reveal everything Google wants do not.
True, and I don't think they are unreasonable to demand the full exploit when they are paying for it.
I don't necessarily always agree with Google's approach but I think it's good that they man up and pay for the bugs. I wish more companies would do that.
Microsoft would have been gone years ago. Never could fathom the approach they took tho, "Bug? What bug? There's a Bug?!? You must be a terrorist!" That really was all anyone needed to see to confirm how they operate.
So you found a gap in Chrome, which you could do awful, mean, nasty, devious, despicable, evil, stinky, bad things with. You could turn it in for a stack of cash now... or you could try your luck exploiting it for profit, your won island fortress and dozens of minions.
Um, all "Mastered for iTunes" does is allow producers to preview how the final file will sound when placed on iTunes, so that they can make changes to the master file. Not sure what the point of the story is, and it definitely has nothing to do with CDs or FLAC.
If you are selling it as "Mastered" for a purpose and the quality is identical than it is only "Mastered" for hype and profit.
I've got some LP singles, which were intended for radio play, back in the day, which are of an improvement over the usually horrible 45 RPM mass productions, possibly better than mass produced LP versions as well. But consider Apple's source is unlikely in most cases to be original mastering materials (who in their right mind would turn over digital originals to Apple?) for them to manipulate for their product (iTunes). Odds are, 95% of their market can't tell anyway because they're hardly audiophiles and are listening through headphones with absurdly limited range and reproduction quality.
While I agree that its all bunk, I would be interested in knowing if the two files where bit for bit the same or just sound the same to the listener?
Probably not. Expect some renoberation and bit twiddling to have taken place in the "Master" process. Perhaps they did something like Dolby noise suppression or changed equalizer settings.
Those wonderful color screens people could put on their TV's to impreove the picture -- you can't get more out of something than you put into it. If the lossy music process has lost data you can't put it back (but you can always convince the gullible that you can!)
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Romney crossed party lines himself to vote for Paul Tsongas in the 1992 Democratic primary...Romney, who until he made an unsuccessful run for Senate in 1994 had spent his adult life as a registered independent.
So he didn't "cross party lines" then, did he?
Let's call it half a party line, as he was registered as neither Republicrat or Democan. Open Primaries are a good thing, unless they are manipulated thus. Even Rush Limbaugh was suggesting GOP voters in Michigan vote for someone, to interfer with the Democratic Primary in 2008 -- I think that's electioneering and illegal, that he did it on radio I'm rather puzzled charges weren't brought.
One trick these pinball museums seem to miss is making them actual museums rather than just freeplay arcades, I'd love for them to have more informative exhibits, maybe a glass fronted workshop with someone restoring and repairing machines, details about have various features work (bumpers, dot matrix displays etc).
Got a tour of Bally, back when a friend worked there. Pretty neat to see these things being assembled - wires everywere! Must have been a blast to design them.
I actually discovered my love of pinball after years of playing video games. There's really something to be said for controlling and following a physical object on the board, rather than a load of pixels moving around.
No, SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is todays snake oil. "Cloud" is just an amalgamation of business models that haven't been sorted out yet.
Which makes it all the more easy for people to add "Cloud" to anything they are selling, to give it that sexy appeal of being on the cusp of exciting* new technology. I'm getting loads of junk mail about how to make Cloud Technology work for me. Really? So far none of the sales pitches sount close to anything I actually need (or could use, considering the sensitivity of the data I work with.)
*Exciting: May involve intense panic, screaming, hair pulling, catastrophic failure and/or aportionment of blame.
This is not surprising at all. A lot of government agencies do a lot of business with companies all around this region. It says to me that even in the government agencies there are IT people with bosses that get really excited over the idea of the newest hottest tech like "Cloud Services".
They talk to a lot of companies and get them all worked up that their agency will be moving to this new tech very soon.
Companies spend on the new tech with every indication that 4 or 5 people inside of big agencies will be moving that way very soon.
That is about the time the tech people in the agency present their powerpoint presentations on the promise of cloud technology to their upper bosses.
The upper bosses look at giving their data to someone else and they look at wikileaks and they think about the benefits and downsides and keep their data and servers close to their chest.
To all the asshats who wanted government to be run like a business ? They do run things now a lot like a large clueless fumbling business. You were thinking GE and look they work like a business kind of like a Worldcomm or an Enron.
Having been in these situations in the past, the reality which often asserts itself is when the Manglement gets some actual feed back on actual use of these things -- when they see there's cost but negligible benefit, they scrap it
There's also the prospect of the adoption curve, some people jump on the bandwagon right off and going through all the pain and suffering (or actually become big players because it turns out well *cough* internet *cough* and they have a solid presence established before the old guard get around to it.) Keep in mind banks were very, very slow and highly cautious about embracing the internet for internet banking -- with good reason as it turns out (too bad they didn't exercise that kind of sense on mortgages) as electronic theft is easy, can steal a lot and do it very fast.
Everyone wants to keep their data close to their chest, but only the Feds and Fortune 500 companies have the resources to actually do it. For a startup or small business, cloud services are a god send. Compared to the costs of building a data center and staffing an IT department, a good cloud provider gets you up instantly and expands seamlessly. Harris targeted the wrong audience and/or they could not compete with Amazon.
Harris doesn't mess around with Mom & Pop unless Mom & Pop are producing something for DoD or have some other very well connected, essential work.
Well there's no way they're going to fit a lens capable of giving a great picture onto a phone.
Oh, I think they could, but it'll cost ya.
I'mma think this is more like the behavior of the Olympus FE-47, where it saves a picture, which has a resolution of 14 mp, but the actual quality leaves something to be desired.
I'm looking elsewhere, from camera phones, for my next camera anyway, why do I need some kind of quality like that when I'm going to have fingerprints and dust all over the lens, anyway?
it's all vaporware till they ship, and it works. if they pull it off though, might give Intel a run for their money again, it's about time!
Intel is pretty good at catching up, even after Intel said nobody needed 64 bit processors and nobody needed multi core processors, they're right there on top.
Poor people commit crimes, rich people commit laws.
Golden Rule -- He who has the gold makes the rules.
Usually rules about getting more gold and keeping it
Plus a little into research on getting a camel through the eye of a needle, so far they're successful, excepting the camel is quite dead after the process.
I'm betting that Prius drivers behave better than BMW drivers. Just guessing, though. Time to apply for a federal research grant to be sure. I'll be sure to fake the prior literature review.
Wondering where they conducted this study. Usually the bad driver on the road is driving a white or light grey sedan -- those are the ones I remember anyway.
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Never could fathom the approach they took tho,
They released Vista, plugging years worth of holes, and were promptly tar and feathered for it.
(Yes, Vista did have honest to goodness suckage, but most of the complaints centered around the fact that they actually fixed their security)
What I was alluding to was Microsoft's attempt to have people who identified security holes in Windows reported to Department of Homeland Security as potential threats to national security, because as anyone knows, if you're looking for those kinds of things, you're a security risk because everyone runs everything on Windows.
how lucky do you feel?
do you feel lucky?
ftfy.
(same goes for 'won' where it should have been 'own') I blame my Chrome spell checker which is making me spell correct, but utterly wrong words.
I wonder if there's any money in revealing that?
Bug finders now still get paid. but those who don't reveal everything Google wants do not.
True, and I don't think they are unreasonable to demand the full exploit when they are paying for it.
I don't necessarily always agree with Google's approach but I think it's good that they man up and pay for the bugs. I wish more companies would do that.
Microsoft would have been gone years ago. Never could fathom the approach they took tho, "Bug? What bug? There's a Bug?!? You must be a terrorist!" That really was all anyone needed to see to confirm how they operate.
Do ya punk?
So you found a gap in Chrome, which you could do awful, mean, nasty, devious, despicable, evil, stinky, bad things with. You could turn it in for a stack of cash now ... or you could try your luck exploiting it for profit, your won island fortress and dozens of minions.
So do you turn it in or not?
How lucky do you feel?
Um, all "Mastered for iTunes" does is allow producers to preview how the final file will sound when placed on iTunes, so that they can make changes to the master file. Not sure what the point of the story is, and it definitely has nothing to do with CDs or FLAC.
If you are selling it as "Mastered" for a purpose and the quality is identical than it is only "Mastered" for hype and profit.
I've got some LP singles, which were intended for radio play, back in the day, which are of an improvement over the usually horrible 45 RPM mass productions, possibly better than mass produced LP versions as well. But consider Apple's source is unlikely in most cases to be original mastering materials (who in their right mind would turn over digital originals to Apple?) for them to manipulate for their product (iTunes). Odds are, 95% of their market can't tell anyway because they're hardly audiophiles and are listening through headphones with absurdly limited range and reproduction quality.
While I agree that its all bunk, I would be interested in knowing if the two files where bit for bit the same or just sound the same to the listener?
Probably not. Expect some renoberation and bit twiddling to have taken place in the "Master" process. Perhaps they did something like Dolby noise suppression or changed equalizer settings.
Those wonderful color screens people could put on their TV's to impreove the picture -- you can't get more out of something than you put into it. If the lossy music process has lost data you can't put it back (but you can always convince the gullible that you can!)
Now, buy my Slashdot Post Converter, which placed on your screen turns each of my posts into a fantastic media experience! Zowie!
This has no place on /.
Yes. The AT-5000 Auto-dialer was meant for calling you to tell you to send $1 to Happy Dude
So he didn't "cross party lines" then, did he?
Let's call it half a party line, as he was registered as neither Republicrat or Democan. Open Primaries are a good thing, unless they are manipulated thus. Even Rush Limbaugh was suggesting GOP voters in Michigan vote for someone, to interfer with the Democratic Primary in 2008 -- I think that's electioneering and illegal, that he did it on radio I'm rather puzzled charges weren't brought.
Do they have The Addams Family?
One trick these pinball museums seem to miss is making them actual museums rather than just freeplay arcades, I'd love for them to have more informative exhibits, maybe a glass fronted workshop with someone restoring and repairing machines, details about have various features work (bumpers, dot matrix displays etc).
Got a tour of Bally, back when a friend worked there. Pretty neat to see these things being assembled - wires everywere! Must have been a blast to design them.
I actually discovered my love of pinball after years of playing video games. There's really something to be said for controlling and following a physical object on the board, rather than a load of pixels moving around.
"Cloud" is today's "Snake oil"
No, SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is todays snake oil. "Cloud" is just an amalgamation of business models that haven't been sorted out yet.
Which makes it all the more easy for people to add "Cloud" to anything they are selling, to give it that sexy appeal of being on the cusp of exciting* new technology. I'm getting loads of junk mail about how to make Cloud Technology work for me. Really? So far none of the sales pitches sount close to anything I actually need (or could use, considering the sensitivity of the data I work with.)
*Exciting: May involve intense panic, screaming, hair pulling, catastrophic failure and/or aportionment of blame.
This is not surprising at all. A lot of government agencies do a lot of business with companies all around this region. It says to me that even in the government agencies there are IT people with bosses that get really excited over the idea of the newest hottest tech like "Cloud Services".
They talk to a lot of companies and get them all worked up that their agency will be moving to this new tech very soon.
Companies spend on the new tech with every indication that 4 or 5 people inside of big agencies will be moving that way very soon.
That is about the time the tech people in the agency present their powerpoint presentations on the promise of cloud technology to their upper bosses.
The upper bosses look at giving their data to someone else and they look at wikileaks and they think about the benefits and downsides and keep their data and servers close to their chest.
To all the asshats who wanted government to be run like a business ? They do run things now a lot like a large clueless fumbling business. You were thinking GE and look they work like a business kind of like a Worldcomm or an Enron.
Having been in these situations in the past, the reality which often asserts itself is when the Manglement gets some actual feed back on actual use of these things -- when they see there's cost but negligible benefit, they scrap it
There's also the prospect of the adoption curve, some people jump on the bandwagon right off and going through all the pain and suffering (or actually become big players because it turns out well *cough* internet *cough* and they have a solid presence established before the old guard get around to it.) Keep in mind banks were very, very slow and highly cautious about embracing the internet for internet banking -- with good reason as it turns out (too bad they didn't exercise that kind of sense on mortgages) as electronic theft is easy, can steal a lot and do it very fast.
Everyone wants to keep their data close to their chest, but only the Feds and Fortune 500 companies have the resources to actually do it. For a startup or small business, cloud services are a god send. Compared to the costs of building a data center and staffing an IT department, a good cloud provider gets you up instantly and expands seamlessly. Harris targeted the wrong audience and/or they could not compete with Amazon.
Harris doesn't mess around with Mom & Pop unless Mom & Pop are producing something for DoD or have some other very well connected, essential work.
Used to play one old machine in the college commons, racking up free games and could play for over an hour.
Oddly enough, it was the same machine Bill Budge based Raster Blaster on.
Hmmm... I don't like Yahoo or Facebook.
I think I'll hate the patents themselves. Another ridiculous patent suit wasting the time and money of the courts.
I find both to be a pain, too. Perhaps that's where they patents lay -- inducing pain and suffering upon users.
Because I really was looking forward to putting all my mission critical inhouse infrastructure into someone elses control.
Welllll... there's always Wikileaks.
They seem capable of weathering the worst the world can throw at them.
"Cloud" is today's "Snake oil"
Well there's no way they're going to fit a lens capable of giving a great picture onto a phone.
Oh, I think they could, but it'll cost ya.
I'mma think this is more like the behavior of the Olympus FE-47, where it saves a picture, which has a resolution of 14 mp, but the actual quality leaves something to be desired.
I'm looking elsewhere, from camera phones, for my next camera anyway, why do I need some kind of quality like that when I'm going to have fingerprints and dust all over the lens, anyway?
Is it really pixels or is it phonus balonus theoretical pixels?
I have and Olympus FE-47 cheepie "14 megapixel" which has worse actual resolution than my old Nikon Coolpix 800, which only is 1 megapixel.
it's all vaporware till they ship, and it works.
if they pull it off though, might give Intel a run for their money again, it's about time!
Intel is pretty good at catching up, even after Intel said nobody needed 64 bit processors and nobody needed multi core processors, they're right there on top.
Apple may be late, but the way some people listen, they'll believe Apple invented it.
The world does not need more self-absorbed iPhone users talking to the wannabe AI in their phone.
You say that now, but when they have flying cars, I'm certain you'll be all over that like 681 Chinese on an iPhone gas stove.
You keep saying that word.
Gilligan, get more coconuts and when you're done with that build me a set of golf clubs and a golf course. There's a good lad.
Poor people commit crimes, rich people commit laws.
Golden Rule -- He who has the gold makes the rules.
Usually rules about getting more gold and keeping it
Plus a little into research on getting a camel through the eye of a needle, so far they're successful, excepting the camel is quite dead after the process.
I'm betting that Prius drivers behave better than BMW drivers. Just guessing, though. Time to apply for a federal research grant to be sure. I'll be sure to fake the prior literature review.
Wondering where they conducted this study. Usually the bad driver on the road is driving a white or light grey sedan -- those are the ones I remember anyway.