Have you looked at Amazon Prime, which comes with "unlimited streaming" for $80/yr (~$6.66/month), but I'm not sure what part of their video library is included in that price.
Well for OSX 10.5 (Leopard) you can pick up a "full" copy on Amazon for $185, or an upgrade DVD for $130. You could always see if a friend has a full installation/upgrade DVD (not tied to specific hardware) that they no longer need (moved on to Snow Leopard perhaps?) but that may be more legally grey. Apple was kind enough to not include License checks on the OS DVDs, since they are more focussed on Hardware.
The last PowerPC units were sold (I think) in first quarter 2006, and 10.6 (Snow Leopard) was released in Aug. of 2009. That means (at best) you can run a 5 year old computer, with a 2 year old OS, which, depending on what you want it to do should last you until the hardware stops working (its not like your current version of Word/iTunes/whatever will suddenly stop working).
To be fair, there is a huge difference between OS upgrades and full hardware switches. The speed difference between PPC vs. Intel alone might make it worth while to upgrade your hardware to something more recent (or wait till they release OS X 10.7).
Buying a new computer every 5-7 years is not too much of a pain (or outside the mainstream for those who need/require the latest software), but I can understand how missing the transition by 6 months left a bad taste in your mouth.
At least throw an attribution or a link for more information if you're going to post someone else's work (especially ironic in a discussion of Copyright).
If you can't endure commercials than even going to the movies must be torture.
Yeah, they still run commercials, but I don't mind a quick 30 second break or three in the middle of a show. If they get much longer, then I'll just shift focus to something else for that minute or two.
Worked fine for the first X years of my life before VCRs, DVDs, and DVRs removed that inconvenience.:)
Personally Amazon and Hulu have been a "Win" combination for me.
Hulu's streaming library seems to keep growing, and they've got the Criterion Collection for Hulu+ members (Hulu+ costs $7.99 a month... imagine that... I wonder if NetFlix is feeling some heat).
Throw in the occasional rental on Amazon Video (2$-4$ depending), and it might be compelling. It certainly is compared to paying what the Cable Company wanted.
On the one hand, I'm moderately curious to try out NetFlix.
Since ditching the Cable Company I've been using an Antenna, Hulu, and Amazon Video to watch pretty much anything I've wanted (or at least enough that I haven't felt the miss except for a few "Cable Only" shows).
I've been thinking about giving NetFlix a whirl as a supplement, but now I'm not sure which side I'd try (maybe the Disk Rental).
On the other hand, considering that the reason I told the Cable Companies to take a hike was that they kept jacking up their fees and giving me little in return, I can see this being the tipping point for some customers to move on to a "NetFlix Free" life.
Feels odd/fitting that most of the most promising private space flight ventures have roots in a program put forth/inspired by one of the luminaries of SciFi (of course considering A.C.Clark is credited with GeoSynchronous Satellites and others other ideas/inventions, maybe it isn't as much of a surprise as it seems).
Yeah, being at the bottom of the gravity well is a pain. Hope we all get a chance to climb out of it at will one day soon.:D
Congrats Taco. Wish I could have made it down there.
I remember Columbia lifting off for the first time and getting lucky enough to have the Chicken Pox that week. I was glued to the TV at my grandparents and ended up building my own Lego Space Shuttle.
A couple of years later my father took me down to see a "real shuttle launch" (just imagine the excited kid attached to that phrase:) ), and we slogged out every morning to go through security, get on a bus and wait in the cold till they either scrubbed or launched. Unfortunately this was '86, and they launched when they should have scrubbed, so I got to see Challenger take off for the last time (still remember the closed circuit video of one of the techs give Christa McAuliffe an apple as she was getting into the Shuttle). Somewhere I've still got a Kodak Disc-Man set of negatives that I took out on the visitor area watching the launch, and seeing Feynman finally set the record straight on the Commission was just surreal (his autobiography was bed-time reading from my father).
Sad I didn't get down there, but glad that the newsies at least realized it was important enough to pre-empt regularly scheduled programming so I could watch it live on TV.
Sad to the see the Shuttle go, but hopeful that we can replace it with something better.
Considering the people screaming their heads off about Rootkits whenever ANY Sony article gets mentioned, I'm actually surprised there aren't more people complaining about Bob.:D
Actually the main problem with Mitnick was that a lot of people felt the punishment did not fit the crime.
For one thing, despite egg on their faces, and the copying of some digital data, I don't think he directly impacted the lives of anyone (except perhaps those directly involved in his Social Hacks, and even then, only at their performance reviews). LulzSec on the other hand seems to aim for high profile/high impact targets.
If the people behind LulzSec were caught and sentenced to 50-Life, you might see a very different reaction on SlashDot to what you're seeing now. People may want them caught and punished, but if the punishment was "excessive" (a nebulous term), then public sentiment would easily shift to "but what harm did they really do?". So long as they continue to impact peoples lives, and receive no karma payback for it, people will reset them. Works the same way with government leaders also. Why do you think people enjoy a good political scandal and want to "vote out the bums"?
Mitnick also seems to have grown. He now runs Mitnick Security Consulting LLC, a computer security consultancy. (at least according to Wikipedia), and he has written two Security books, with an autobiography due out this year.
I eagerly look forward to LulzSec's Autobiography.
Good, now make two versions, one International version and one US version.
The international version should be the gold version, with the US version a crippled version which honors all the software patent follies going on in the US.
The rest of the world should just ignore their sissy talk.
Let us hope that Apache don't respect US software patents outside the US.
OK as long as the US users can d/l the gold version.
But... but... then your Web Browser would be a circumvention device!
Once his Management asks him for the Passwords, even if he is the "only one QUALIFIED to run the system", then he needed to turn those passwords over.
He can do it "under protest", he can ask them to provide a signed request for them, but what he can't do is say "No, You don't know what your doing so I'll protect you" EVEN IF HE'S RIGHT.
His job in that situation is to make them aware of the risks, and then to do what they want done.
Their job is to hear his issues, and then make a decision to either listen to his requests/warnings, hire outside help, or just plunge ahead and deal with the consequences later.
Part of the problem is that the level of Security or a System is inverse to its level of Accessibility.
The more people can access systems and the more they can do with them, the less secure they can become.
The trick is finding the balance people are willing to live with (short of unplugging the computer, which makes it REAL secure BTW), and finding ways to mitigate/lessen the threat left by vectors where you find yourself.
I think the real problem is that too many non-security people don't view Computer Security as a serious issue, and too many security people view it as the major issue. This means when they both sit down at a table and try to find the balance point, neither side is happy and both sides feel the other one doesn't understand where they are coming from (which is often true).
That scratching sound is onda technology getting added to the "don't use" list all around the world.
+1 insightful
Wether he was right or wrong in being the only person with admin access, and wether that was a situation he created, or was thrust upon him, I am APPALLED by the fact that he attempted to hold the system for ransom.
The first is "bite sized", the second is probably more relevant but way more wordy, but how many people even bother joining either?
We are unorganized as a group at large, and the lack of standards to adhere to is part of the problem that we, as a Profession; including Admins, Programmers/Developers, Support Techs; need to address somehow.
One thing that really irritates me about the ability to copy/move saves from the PS3's hard drive to a USB drive is that some saves and content is locked and can't be copied. (I'm not sure if this the case when you use the built in backup utility or the PSN+ cloud backup).
I'm not positive, but I believe the PSN+ cloud backup WILL let you backup "protected" files also. (they had mentioned that it will let you backup/transfer files you can't normally backup)
I was planning on testing this with a friend, but didn't get a chance before the outage.
In 1984, CompuServe debuted Islands of Kesmai, the first commercial multiplayer online role playing game. Islands of Kesmai used scrolling text (ASCII graphics) on screen to draw maps of player location, depict movement, and so on; the interface is considered Roguelike. At some point, graphical overlay interfaces could be downloaded, putting a slightly more glitzy face on the game. Playing cost was the standard CompuServe connection fee of the time, $6 per hour with a 300 baud modem, $12 for a 1200 baud modem; the game processed one command every 10 seconds, which equates to 1 2/3 cents per command.
not to mention some of the other games on CompuServe at the time: (Ah, good old CI$... CompuServer Information Systems, still remember my account numbers) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaWars ASCII based real-time/turn DECWARS combat (up to 8 players on two teams if I remember right) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaWars_III ASCII based space simulator (and persistent universe with a set reset schedule) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 (aka British Legends) text based MUD we all knew/loved http://www.legendsofkesmai.com/archive/iok/renfield_iok_files/misc/you_guessed_it_game.txt You Guessed It!... a Quiz show style game, where players divide into teams, and it even included a challenge mode where players from both teams can award points if the computer didn't judge things correctly (which actually worked, which probably says something about the honesty of the people who played it).
Air Warrior was an early multiplayer on-line air-combat simulator. A player is able to fly a simulated World War II aircraft, fighting with and against other players, each flying his own simulated aircraft. It was introduced in 1986 by Kelton Flinn and his company Kesmai. At this time the internet was not generally available outside the worlds of government and academia. Kesmai therefore used the online service GEnie for the game's networked communication. Air Warrior originally ran on Apple Macintosh, Commodore Amiga, and Atari ST computers, had simple black and white wireframe graphics, and cost over $10/hour to play. Over time, Kesmai produced improved versions of the game, starting with SVGA Air Warrior (AWSVGA) in 1993, and continuing with Air Warrior for Windows (AW4W) in 1996, Air Warrior II (AWII) in early 1997, Air Warrior III (AWIII) later in 1997, and finally Air Warrior III Millennium Version (AW:MV) in 2000. Kesmai also did business deals to provide access to Air Warrior through additional on-line services, including Delphi, CRIS, CompuServe, America Online, Earthlink, Gamestorm and CompuLink. A version of Air Warrior for Windows was ported back to the Macintosh in 1997 in an
CDs don't have DRM, Amazon doesn't have DRM but Apple's iTunes does. Why? iOS is a very locked down smart phone more than blackberry, more than android more than Meego more than palm.
You had me until you got to here.
CDs don't have DRM, Amazon MP3s don't have DRM (although their videos are), Apple MP3s increasingly DON'T have DRM (although again, their video files certainly do)
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Have you looked at Amazon Prime, which comes with "unlimited streaming" for $80/yr (~$6.66/month), but I'm not sure what part of their video library is included in that price.
Well for OSX 10.5 (Leopard) you can pick up a "full" copy on Amazon for $185, or an upgrade DVD for $130.
You could always see if a friend has a full installation/upgrade DVD (not tied to specific hardware) that they no longer need (moved on to Snow Leopard perhaps?) but that may be more legally grey. Apple was kind enough to not include License checks on the OS DVDs, since they are more focussed on Hardware.
The last PowerPC units were sold (I think) in first quarter 2006, and 10.6 (Snow Leopard) was released in Aug. of 2009. That means (at best) you can run a 5 year old computer, with a 2 year old OS, which, depending on what you want it to do should last you until the hardware stops working (its not like your current version of Word/iTunes/whatever will suddenly stop working).
To be fair, there is a huge difference between OS upgrades and full hardware switches. The speed difference between PPC vs. Intel alone might make it worth while to upgrade your hardware to something more recent (or wait till they release OS X 10.7).
Buying a new computer every 5-7 years is not too much of a pain (or outside the mainstream for those who need/require the latest software), but I can understand how missing the transition by 6 months left a bad taste in your mouth.
At least throw an attribution or a link for more information if you're going to post someone else's work (especially ironic in a discussion of Copyright).
http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/The_Monkey
Agreed. They can have my WinXP VM image when they pry it from my cold, dead, hard drive.
(deal with too many customers using "legacy" systems and need older image, besides, XP runs wonderfully as a VM under OSX :) ).
Yes, 10.5 can run on a PPC.
10.6 is Intel only (and RosettaStone is an optional component, to be removed in 10.7)
If you can't endure commercials than even going to the movies must be torture.
Yeah, they still run commercials, but I don't mind a quick 30 second break or three in the middle of a show. If they get much longer, then I'll just shift focus to something else for that minute or two.
Worked fine for the first X years of my life before VCRs, DVDs, and DVRs removed that inconvenience. :)
Basically, this will drive people to use Redbox for disc-based movies and NetFlix for screaming.
Based on some of the replies, I'd say you're right. People sure are screaming a lot about NetFlix's decision.
Personally Amazon and Hulu have been a "Win" combination for me.
Hulu's streaming library seems to keep growing, and they've got the Criterion Collection for Hulu+ members (Hulu+ costs $7.99 a month ... imagine that ... I wonder if NetFlix is feeling some heat).
Throw in the occasional rental on Amazon Video (2$-4$ depending), and it might be compelling. It certainly is compared to paying what the Cable Company wanted.
On the one hand, I'm moderately curious to try out NetFlix.
Since ditching the Cable Company I've been using an Antenna, Hulu, and Amazon Video to watch pretty much anything I've wanted (or at least enough that I haven't felt the miss except for a few "Cable Only" shows).
I've been thinking about giving NetFlix a whirl as a supplement, but now I'm not sure which side I'd try (maybe the Disk Rental).
On the other hand, considering that the reason I told the Cable Companies to take a hike was that they kept jacking up their fees and giving me little in return, I can see this being the tipping point for some customers to move on to a "NetFlix Free" life.
Yup, the Saturn V was still there (so far as I remember).
Yeah, Space-X, Armadillo Aerospace, Scaled Composites, etc. all look very promising (progeny of the Delta Clipper for the most part :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X).
Feels odd/fitting that most of the most promising private space flight ventures have roots in a program put forth/inspired by one of the luminaries of SciFi (of course considering A.C.Clark is credited with GeoSynchronous Satellites and others other ideas/inventions, maybe it isn't as much of a surprise as it seems).
Yeah, being at the bottom of the gravity well is a pain. Hope we all get a chance to climb out of it at will one day soon. :D
... Apple, Microsoft and Oracle have actually formed up to go after Android ...
Ah, the new "Axis of Evil" ...
What he ^--- said, definitely Jealous! :D
Congrats Taco. Wish I could have made it down there.
I remember Columbia lifting off for the first time and getting lucky enough to have the Chicken Pox that week. I was glued to the TV at my grandparents and ended up building my own Lego Space Shuttle.
A couple of years later my father took me down to see a "real shuttle launch" (just imagine the excited kid attached to that phrase :) ), and we slogged out every morning to go through security, get on a bus and wait in the cold till they either scrubbed or launched. Unfortunately this was '86, and they launched when they should have scrubbed, so I got to see Challenger take off for the last time (still remember the closed circuit video of one of the techs give Christa McAuliffe an apple as she was getting into the Shuttle). Somewhere I've still got a Kodak Disc-Man set of negatives that I took out on the visitor area watching the launch, and seeing Feynman finally set the record straight on the Commission was just surreal (his autobiography was bed-time reading from my father).
Sad I didn't get down there, but glad that the newsies at least realized it was important enough to pre-empt regularly scheduled programming so I could watch it live on TV.
Sad to the see the Shuttle go, but hopeful that we can replace it with something better.
Excelsior Ad Astra
Considering the people screaming their heads off about Rootkits whenever ANY Sony article gets mentioned, I'm actually surprised there aren't more people complaining about Bob. :D
Actually the main problem with Mitnick was that a lot of people felt the punishment did not fit the crime.
For one thing, despite egg on their faces, and the copying of some digital data, I don't think he directly impacted the lives of anyone (except perhaps those directly involved in his Social Hacks, and even then, only at their performance reviews). LulzSec on the other hand seems to aim for high profile/high impact targets.
If the people behind LulzSec were caught and sentenced to 50-Life, you might see a very different reaction on SlashDot to what you're seeing now. People may want them caught and punished, but if the punishment was "excessive" (a nebulous term), then public sentiment would easily shift to "but what harm did they really do?". So long as they continue to impact peoples lives, and receive no karma payback for it, people will reset them. Works the same way with government leaders also. Why do you think people enjoy a good political scandal and want to "vote out the bums"?
Mitnick also seems to have grown.
He now runs Mitnick Security Consulting LLC, a computer security consultancy. (at least according to Wikipedia), and he has written two Security books, with an autobiography due out this year.
I eagerly look forward to LulzSec's Autobiography.
I can just see an innocent looking Barbie pink corvette equipped with weapons ala Kitt from Knight Rider. Hasselhoff cannot be far behind.
They're going to weaponize Hasselhoff?!?
Isn't that against the Geneva Convention?
Good, now make two versions, one International version and one US version.
The international version should be the gold version, with the US version a crippled version which honors all the software patent follies going on in the US.
The rest of the world should just ignore their sissy talk.
Let us hope that Apache don't respect US software patents outside the US.
OK as long as the US users can d/l the gold version.
But ... but ... then your Web Browser would be a circumvention device!
That could NEVER be allowed to happen!
Once his Management asks him for the Passwords, even if he is the "only one QUALIFIED to run the system", then he needed to turn those passwords over.
He can do it "under protest", he can ask them to provide a signed request for them, but what he can't do is say "No, You don't know what your doing so I'll protect you" EVEN IF HE'S RIGHT.
His job in that situation is to make them aware of the risks, and then to do what they want done.
Their job is to hear his issues, and then make a decision to either listen to his requests/warnings, hire outside help, or just plunge ahead and deal with the consequences later.
Part of the problem is that the level of Security or a System is inverse to its level of Accessibility.
The more people can access systems and the more they can do with them, the less secure they can become.
The trick is finding the balance people are willing to live with (short of unplugging the computer, which makes it REAL secure BTW), and finding ways to mitigate/lessen the threat left by vectors where you find yourself.
I think the real problem is that too many non-security people don't view Computer Security as a serious issue, and too many security people view it as the major issue. This means when they both sit down at a table and try to find the balance point, neither side is happy and both sides feel the other one doesn't understand where they are coming from (which is often true).
That scratching sound is onda technology getting added to the "don't use" list all around the world.
+1 insightful
Wether he was right or wrong in being the only person with admin access, and wether that was a situation he created, or was thrust upon him, I am APPALLED by the fact that he attempted to hold the system for ransom.
There should be a System Admin "Code of Ethics". The closest is the IEEE "Code of Ethics", or the ACM "Code of Conduct" if they happen to have joined.
The first is "bite sized", the second is probably more relevant but way more wordy, but how many people even bother joining either?
We are unorganized as a group at large, and the lack of standards to adhere to is part of the problem that we, as a Profession; including Admins, Programmers/Developers, Support Techs; need to address somehow.
(/rant) :)
Since it's within the Goldilocks zone, I'm guessing that the Starbucks serves oatmeal not too hot, and not too cold.
So then McDonalds hasn't reached them yet.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants)
I've had friends accidentally slip a razor blade onto a commercial airliner.
They were used to carrying it as part of their kit, and apparently it didn't stand out in the x-ray.
One thing that really irritates me about the ability to copy/move saves from the PS3's hard drive to a USB drive is that some saves and content is locked and can't be copied. (I'm not sure if this the case when you use the built in backup utility or the PSN+ cloud backup).
I'm not positive, but I believe the PSN+ cloud backup WILL let you backup "protected" files also. (they had mentioned that it will let you backup/transfer files you can't normally backup)
I was planning on testing this with a friend, but didn't get a chance before the outage.
Um, how old are you? Multiplayer *is* new. Or at least the idea of making a game that only plays online is.
John Daleske's Empire, 8-player networking. Turn-based strategy. 1973.
Jim Bowery's Spasim, 32-player networking. 3D shooter/simulator. 1974.
No kidding. I'm not old enough to remember the 70s, but still ...
Island of Kesmai, 100+ player MMoRPG (ala WoW). 1985 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_Kesmai
In 1984, CompuServe debuted Islands of Kesmai, the first commercial multiplayer online role playing game. Islands of Kesmai used scrolling text (ASCII graphics) on screen to draw maps of player location, depict movement, and so on; the interface is considered Roguelike. At some point, graphical overlay interfaces could be downloaded, putting a slightly more glitzy face on the game. Playing cost was the standard CompuServe connection fee of the time, $6 per hour with a 300 baud modem, $12 for a 1200 baud modem; the game processed one command every 10 seconds, which equates to 1 2/3 cents per command.
(from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_online_games#Commercial_timesharing_services)
not to mention some of the other games on CompuServe at the time: ... CompuServer Information Systems, still remember my account numbers) ... a Quiz show style game, where players divide into teams, and it even included a challenge mode where players from both teams can award points if the computer didn't judge things correctly (which actually worked, which probably says something about the honesty of the people who played it).
(Ah, good old CI$
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaWars ASCII based real-time/turn DECWARS combat (up to 8 players on two teams if I remember right)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaWars_III ASCII based space simulator (and persistent universe with a set reset schedule)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 (aka British Legends) text based MUD we all knew/loved
http://www.legendsofkesmai.com/archive/iok/renfield_iok_files/misc/you_guessed_it_game.txt You Guessed It!
Then GEnie rolled out (The General Electric Network for Information Exchange) which brought things like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Warrior Air Warrior:
Air Warrior was an early multiplayer on-line air-combat simulator. A player is able to fly a simulated World War II aircraft, fighting with and against other players, each flying his own simulated aircraft. It was introduced in 1986 by Kelton Flinn and his company Kesmai. At this time the internet was not generally available outside the worlds of government and academia. Kesmai therefore used the online service GEnie for the game's networked communication.
Air Warrior originally ran on Apple Macintosh, Commodore Amiga, and Atari ST computers, had simple black and white wireframe graphics, and cost over $10/hour to play. Over time, Kesmai produced improved versions of the game, starting with SVGA Air Warrior (AWSVGA) in 1993, and continuing with Air Warrior for Windows (AW4W) in 1996, Air Warrior II (AWII) in early 1997, Air Warrior III (AWIII) later in 1997, and finally Air Warrior III Millennium Version (AW:MV) in 2000.
Kesmai also did business deals to provide access to Air Warrior through additional on-line services, including Delphi, CRIS, CompuServe, America Online, Earthlink, Gamestorm and CompuLink. A version of Air Warrior for Windows was ported back to the Macintosh in 1997 in an
Considering my "Except" was referring to the idea of locking down the OS, and NOT to distributing the OS via the App store, not sure we disagree. :)
CDs don't have DRM, Amazon doesn't have DRM but Apple's iTunes does. Why? iOS is a very locked down smart phone more than blackberry, more than android more than Meego more than palm.
You had me until you got to here.
CDs don't have DRM, Amazon MP3s don't have DRM (although their videos are), Apple MP3s increasingly DON'T have DRM (although again, their video files certainly do)