I don't know how much power is used to manufacture the Eco discs, but you can mount the image in Windows using 3rd-party software like Daemon Tools. In Unix-like systems, you can use your OS' "everything is a file" FS philosophy and some hackery to mount an image as a device.
If they do open up the spec for OOXML's sake, that would also make it a bit easier for the competitors to write converters. I would expect them to wave their patents/NDAs some more to try to stave them off, but they may have made reverse-engineering easier with this move.
Just give Boll the Gimli suit complete with prosthetics. If you remember John's comments about his getup in the LotR films, I think his rage will overcome even a real battle axe.
All kidding aside, I believe you were looking for "stunt", although you may want to qualify that with "juvenile" or "sophomoric". And I thought that the Motorola presenter was shaking not with contained laughter, but barely contained panic.
The reporter/cameraman responsible was banned, and instead of looking at it from the perspective of the presenters and CEA, he fancies himself some sort of hero and is selling his now-worthless press badge at Craigslist. Meanwhile, J.Lam (head editor), who gave the go-ahead, is busy doing damage control that he could've very easily avoided, but couldn't resist the same temptation that prodded him to put an obscene image on sister site Kotaku (over taunts regarding a Halo match, no less. How old is this guy's brain, 5?). For what it's worth, the article says that CEA is considering further sanctions against both Gizmodo and Gawker Media, and I for one hope they follow through on that thought. The convention is serious business* for a lot of people, and these guys were treating it like a dot-com of old partying with their venture capital.
I think you've hit it on the head that many of the self-centered children of the 80s have become sociopaths of this decade. And others are indignant that we dare to ruin their potential fun by pointing out the consequences. I think we can tell them why they can't play like this until we're blue in the face, but we'll only get the finger for our troubles. Sad, indeed.
* Yeah, the derision over silly products and false "innovations" is well warranted, IMO. Still, there are far better ways to shake up an industry than just turning off a wall of televisions.
In many companies, losing potential sales because some idiot inexplicably* ruined the presentation means the presenter gets fired. They don't care that it wasn't his fault, they don't care that it was "just turning off TVs". What does matter to them is that you weren't able to get people to buy their stuff, and you made the company look like tools, regardless of whether it's true.
The job of marketing is to get the knowledge of a company's products into as many brains as possible, without killing the desire to buy them (many companies get only the former right). Had no one known it was a "small harmless prank", a lot of buyers will leave, and the presenter can kiss any shot of having a feature in a tech rag goodbye. You think it's worthless repetition; your company thinks it's time well spent.
* Yes, Slashdot readers know it was an IR transmitter. Many PHBs don't.
I'm sure you wouldn't want someone to come into your office and unplug your computer while you're working. Or, to bring it closer to the CES scenario, repeatedly turn your monitor off. You'd be pissed, annoyed, and you would probably come to blows with the offender, because he was interfering with your job.
Its usually bloggers who take the time to do an in depth objective analysis of topics, something that should have been taught to Harvard journalists.
Oh, I'm certain it's taught, and professors everywhere cringe when their alumni are all but forced to reduce the quality of their work for corporate priorities.
Agreed. Because Rails is built on Ruby, the best thing the Ruby folks can do is just keep coding if stuff like this doesn't come up. Should it come up, keep the discussion short and move on.
Of course, if they're really feeling nasty, they could break a dependency or three, but they're not Microsoft.:)
True, but it's not like the power line dangles in one stretch from source to destination. The UAV can probably hang from a supporting structure, like a tower or pole.
Compared to the PS2 and 360, yes, but Sony was still pounded by Nintendo in Japan last week. I think that the market in Japan is becoming more geared towards mobile platforms (DS and PSP are doing exceptionally well), although your point about the 360 stands.
(The ranking page. Note that they use the common abbreviations for all but one of the various consoles. This charts the software sales over the past week, sorted by the last column. At the bottom of the page is another chart with, presumably, the hardware sales of the consoles over the past week.)
If the current state of VMs aren't up to snuff, you could get a large external HDD and copy disk images or full archives of uninfected machines. Not quite as fast as deleting a compromised VM and fetching another, but close, and less painful than a full reinstall of everything.
I second crabpeople's suggestion of using a security app on the router/gateway (which you can make from a cheap Linux box). I haven't tried untangle, but it's worth a look (and it's GPL).
FWIW, this laptop only has 504 MB of RAM for the system (8 MB 'stolen' by the onboard graphics chip), and it had a "Vista Capable" sticker (that I affixed to the office trash can). I'm thinking it's the minimum requirements for Home Basic, and they don't take into account things like shared memory with video hardware.
Currently lobbying my boss for another half-gig of RAM, as HP's new printer drivers tend to eat all the resources when printing double-sided. Nifty feature, but they should've thought twice before sending the development contract to Asia.
Simmons' "rebuttal" is little more than a "You're wrong! [Why?] Because I said so!" response, as he really doesn't provide much of a reason, just an argumentative whack on the head. I seriously doubt that he was referring to the dilution effect that you're anticipating, should every band on the planet use Radiohead's model (that part of your argument could be taken as an appeal to fear, btw).
And even so, given we have the technology to promote lesser-known bands and distribute their music with a fair price at a much lower cost than before (if it ain't there yet, the pieces for such a framework have already been invented), why would a band necessarily be lost in the digital sea?
So, as a member of a community notorious for not reading articles, you're asking Congressmen to RTFB?
"And the reason the Founding Fathers [had things balanced between federal and state] is that there would be enough people in the room that maybe a few of them could read!" --Lewis Black
I don't have mod points, and if I did, I would give them all to you if it were possible.
They're transitioning past the "lawsuit" stage into the "lobby" and "buy politicians" stage. Believing that an industry CEO admits defeat while lawsuits are ongoing and subpoenas still filed is like believing Chamberlain's talk about "peace in our time".
Perhaps there should be a sort of "certification" for non-RIAA/MPAA/(insert evil lobby group here) creative works. Call it something like "Certified Greedy Cartel Free."
Then patch that into Amarok/Songbird/what have you. (Warning: You are about to contribute to oppression by litigation. Continue?)
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I don't know how much power is used to manufacture the Eco discs, but you can mount the image in Windows using 3rd-party software like Daemon Tools. In Unix-like systems, you can use your OS' "everything is a file" FS philosophy and some hackery to mount an image as a device.
If they do open up the spec for OOXML's sake, that would also make it a bit easier for the competitors to write converters. I would expect them to wave their patents/NDAs some more to try to stave them off, but they may have made reverse-engineering easier with this move.
It's simply a new device to device short rant interface.
So... it's an electronic drill sergeant?
Just give Boll the Gimli suit complete with prosthetics. If you remember John's comments about his getup in the LotR films, I think his rage will overcome even a real battle axe.
Yes, and they really need to get off our lawns.
All kidding aside, I believe you were looking for "stunt", although you may want to qualify that with "juvenile" or "sophomoric". And I thought that the Motorola presenter was shaking not with contained laughter, but barely contained panic.
The reporter/cameraman responsible was banned, and instead of looking at it from the perspective of the presenters and CEA, he fancies himself some sort of hero and is selling his now-worthless press badge at Craigslist. Meanwhile, J.Lam (head editor), who gave the go-ahead, is busy doing damage control that he could've very easily avoided, but couldn't resist the same temptation that prodded him to put an obscene image on sister site Kotaku (over taunts regarding a Halo match, no less. How old is this guy's brain, 5?). For what it's worth, the article says that CEA is considering further sanctions against both Gizmodo and Gawker Media, and I for one hope they follow through on that thought. The convention is serious business* for a lot of people, and these guys were treating it like a dot-com of old partying with their venture capital.
I think you've hit it on the head that many of the self-centered children of the 80s have become sociopaths of this decade. And others are indignant that we dare to ruin their potential fun by pointing out the consequences. I think we can tell them why they can't play like this until we're blue in the face, but we'll only get the finger for our troubles. Sad, indeed.
* Yeah, the derision over silly products and false "innovations" is well warranted, IMO. Still, there are far better ways to shake up an industry than just turning off a wall of televisions.
In many companies, losing potential sales because some idiot inexplicably* ruined the presentation means the presenter gets fired. They don't care that it wasn't his fault, they don't care that it was "just turning off TVs". What does matter to them is that you weren't able to get people to buy their stuff, and you made the company look like tools, regardless of whether it's true.
The job of marketing is to get the knowledge of a company's products into as many brains as possible, without killing the desire to buy them (many companies get only the former right). Had no one known it was a "small harmless prank", a lot of buyers will leave, and the presenter can kiss any shot of having a feature in a tech rag goodbye. You think it's worthless repetition; your company thinks it's time well spent.
* Yes, Slashdot readers know it was an IR transmitter. Many PHBs don't.
I'm sure you wouldn't want someone to come into your office and unplug your computer while you're working. Or, to bring it closer to the CES scenario, repeatedly turn your monitor off. You'd be pissed, annoyed, and you would probably come to blows with the offender, because he was interfering with your job.
Its usually bloggers who take the time to do an in depth objective analysis of topics, something that should have been taught to Harvard journalists.
Oh, I'm certain it's taught, and professors everywhere cringe when their alumni are all but forced to reduce the quality of their work for corporate priorities.
That's convenient. Now every trade show and electronics company has a reason to deny them pre-release access to their products and services.
Too true. The guy responsible had nothing on the stuff college folks do.
And somewhere, an engineer chuckles while remembering the Fisher pen vs. Soviet pencil myth...
You beat me to it, sir.
@GP: No one said you had to grow the fuel crops on land...
"The master wants the oil revenues alive and unspoiled."
Add this to the cell phone confiscation policy, and watch a whole new can of worms opened.
Agreed. Because Rails is built on Ruby, the best thing the Ruby folks can do is just keep coding if stuff like this doesn't come up. Should it come up, keep the discussion short and move on.
:)
Of course, if they're really feeling nasty, they could break a dependency or three, but they're not Microsoft.
True, but it's not like the power line dangles in one stretch from source to destination. The UAV can probably hang from a supporting structure, like a tower or pole.
Indeed, the best part (if you can call it that) of sociopathic institutions is that they resemble Orcs.
"The scum tried to knife me! Kill him!!"
Compared to the PS2 and 360, yes, but Sony was still pounded by Nintendo in Japan last week. I think that the market in Japan is becoming more geared towards mobile platforms (DS and PSP are doing exceptionally well), although your point about the 360 stands.
(The ranking page. Note that they use the common abbreviations for all but one of the various consoles. This charts the software sales over the past week, sorted by the last column. At the bottom of the page is another chart with, presumably, the hardware sales of the consoles over the past week.)
(slight OT) Actually, since you didn't present an exclusive or scenario, two conclusions would've been just fine, and both are likely correct.
But then, we humans love nonexistent false dilemmas...
If the current state of VMs aren't up to snuff, you could get a large external HDD and copy disk images or full archives of uninfected machines. Not quite as fast as deleting a compromised VM and fetching another, but close, and less painful than a full reinstall of everything.
I second crabpeople's suggestion of using a security app on the router/gateway (which you can make from a cheap Linux box). I haven't tried untangle, but it's worth a look (and it's GPL).
FWIW, this laptop only has 504 MB of RAM for the system (8 MB 'stolen' by the onboard graphics chip), and it had a "Vista Capable" sticker (that I affixed to the office trash can). I'm thinking it's the minimum requirements for Home Basic, and they don't take into account things like shared memory with video hardware.
Currently lobbying my boss for another half-gig of RAM, as HP's new printer drivers tend to eat all the resources when printing double-sided. Nifty feature, but they should've thought twice before sending the development contract to Asia.
Simmons' "rebuttal" is little more than a "You're wrong! [Why?] Because I said so!" response, as he really doesn't provide much of a reason, just an argumentative whack on the head. I seriously doubt that he was referring to the dilution effect that you're anticipating, should every band on the planet use Radiohead's model (that part of your argument could be taken as an appeal to fear, btw).
And even so, given we have the technology to promote lesser-known bands and distribute their music with a fair price at a much lower cost than before (if it ain't there yet, the pieces for such a framework have already been invented), why would a band necessarily be lost in the digital sea?
So, as a member of a community notorious for not reading articles, you're asking Congressmen to RTFB?
"And the reason the Founding Fathers [had things balanced between federal and state] is that there would be enough people in the room that maybe a few of them could read!" --Lewis Black
I don't have mod points, and if I did, I would give them all to you if it were possible.
They're transitioning past the "lawsuit" stage into the "lobby" and "buy politicians" stage. Believing that an industry CEO admits defeat while lawsuits are ongoing and subpoenas still filed is like believing Chamberlain's talk about "peace in our time".
(Curse you, Godwin.)
Perhaps there should be a sort of "certification" for non-RIAA/MPAA/(insert evil lobby group here) creative works. Call it something like "Certified Greedy Cartel Free."
Then patch that into Amarok/Songbird/what have you. (Warning: You are about to contribute to oppression by litigation. Continue?)