Yes, but not everyone who has an iPod has an iPod video, and not everyone who has an iPod wants to carry it in addition to a PSP/DS, Phone, etc.
If they would have put a half-decent hard drive into this thing and done some Music/Video sync service, they could have driven it right down the Nano's throat.
You're right about not many people knowing how to deal with ACLs, even if they know how to deal with Windows rather well. Part of that, of course, is transitioning experience from Win3.1x, and Win9x where there were no file permissions. The other part is that for your average home user, they never were forced to learn before ("Oh, its just me and the missus, so I'm not worried about security. No need to set up accounts and have to deal with it.")
My brother and sister-in-law recently got frustrated with visitors (and my niece) playing with their desktop, and trashing bookmarks, etc.
My solution? They now have a Parents log-in, and a log-in for everyone else. With WindowsXP there is no excuse for NOT doing this.
My favorite quote from the article was " This poses a potential support nightmare for Microsoft, which will have to deal with frustrated users who just want to get to their data files."
As if MS deals with user support calls themselves, as opposed to letting the hardware vendor such as Dell or Gateway handle those (or your local technical expert).:)
I am still waiting for the Jar Jar Binks edition. The one where the movies are done as they were meant to be, with Luke being replaced by Jar Jar Binks.
You know... that actually might explain a lot of the plot twists and acting style.
Interesting idea, except that most articles I've seen mention that DirectX9 will be installed side by side on Vista, so I expect game companies will just focus on DX9 for the meanwhile.
The biggest problem MS has been creating by delaying LongHo... I mean Vista isn't just in dropped features.
Its also in licensing. When MS switched to their new licensing model they promised all their big customers that it would pay since MS SQL server would be out soon, along with a new version of Windows, so it made sense to go for the licensing.
After the delay MS SQL 2005 experianced, and this, I'll be real surprised if people are willing to believe them again.
It sounds almost like a Nigerian 419 scam: Yeah... just pay us this big stack of cash and you're entitled to all the versions and updates we produce in the next two years.
[3 years go by]... Oh... were you expecting something?
Good reasons. As you point out, they would probably use different ones when targetting the geek audiance.
Unix derived system, complete with command line interface, coupled with some of the nicest, most integrated, and best supported eye-candy GUI that any Unix system has.
I was skeptical when we switched to them at work for development and support, but it works nicely.
Our product ships on a Linux platform, but in-house desktops and laptops are all OSX (except the occasional Windows machine kept for compatibility with some third party product for testing). Its been much easier having to support OSX, and interconnectivity has been a breeze since most tools for Linux also exist for OSX.
As an added bonus, the GUI is snappy, stable, gets updates for itself, and is a much nicer and more complete experiance than KDE or Gnome have been (in my experiance). My one major complaint is the lack of a second button on the built in trackpad (PowerBookG4), but using Ctrl-Click hasn't been as bad as I was expecting, since my fingers are close by the keyboard anyway with the trackpad.
In college several of my CompSci professors maintained labs with only Macs. These aren't stupid people, or computer illiterate ones. They felt they were the best choices in terms of stability, and useablity, and I have to admit, they seem to have been right.
I agree that a resonable approach might be to take a look at the actual evidence instead of "tossing out the baby with the bathwater".
Unfortunately, while we may champion the cause of science, I'm not always sure that most scientists (or at least the vocal ones), are able to look at evidence and question the beliefs they work in.
I remember seeing an article in Scientific American that explored how the Physics world was mostly static (at the time), and that they expected a major revolution soon to shake things up (similar to volcanic action of 'startling discovery' followed by development and then stagnation/domancy within a scientific field, until the next major discovery).
If you're interested in a different way of looking at things, I recomend Kicking the Sacred Cow by James P. Hogan. He's an interesting character (check out the Biography section), and the book poses a few interesting questions. Wether you agree or disagree with the ideas he brings forth, he's pretty good about including bibliographic notes so you can do your own "further research".
I'd recomend it for most Slashdot readers who are curious about a critical view of dogmatic scientific belief, but not of the scientific process itself.
interesting Video. I hadn't seen it, but it almost makes the name palatable:)... still... they could have named the Wii something else and still kept the cute 'i' animations.
Something like Mii (pronounced 'me') or iHi (pronounced 'e-he') and picture the 'i's using the 'H' as a net, or goal posts, or swing set, although I guess since Apple has gone all iThis and iThat they had to put a capitol, non-'i' character first or risk displeasure/lawsuit.
SCEx has been making money. Just a little less right now, probably due to PS3 development costs
Alternatively, if SCEx were planning on royalties from UMD format movies to tide them through the tail of the PS3 development cycle, then we could be seeing that bad decision playing out in their financial numbers (since UMD movies seem to be selling only slightly better than BetaMax currently is).
Bruce Schneier points out that any ID card system will be flawed from the start because there is a human element in issuing and checking ID's.
A friend writes on the back of all her Credit Cards "Ask For My ID", in the signature location.
The idea is that while signatures can be forged "within reason", a photo ID is a more reliable verification of identity, so that if her cards are stolen...
Anyway, you'd be surprised at how few places even bother to ask. Some just hand the card right back, some see the signature line and decide to either ignore it, or that it is too much of a hastle.
From what I could see it looks like this is something that a given application would have to turn on.
Hopefully most mod-friendly games won't. On the other hand, as another poster mentioned, if this can help eliminate mods for on-line multiplay, then it might be a good thing if it can be enabled under certain circumstances.
Well... to take the position of "Devil's Advocate" for a minute, if they just extended bash to have C# scripting, then you'd have lots of people on this forum yelling how they are perverting the standard and that this is just aploy for them to embrace and extend the existing shell language.
Look at it from MS's perspective: 1) They know they need a shell like language to handle sys admin type functions. 2) They've just put a lot of effort into.Net 3) Most of the MS Admins out there believe VB is the tool of choice.
Given those suppositions (feel free to argue about their reality, but remember that I'm discussing it from MS's viewpoint), a scripting language that fullfills (1), takes advantage of (2) and leverages (3) seems like a no brainer, even for them.
Of course, considering that there are.Net bindings for Perl, that may be an even better choice for a scripting language.
There aren't many Bodegas by where I live, only two super markets. Unfortunately the nearest place to get food is a Dagastinos and I was between jobs when the blackout happened.
Oddly enough my wife and I had been having problems with our Fuse box the week before (we had lost power for two days due to a loose wire and had to have the landlord get an electrician in). The first thing that went through my mind when the lights died was "Not again". I was almost happy when I opened the door to the hall and realized it wasn't just me... then I realized it was a bit more widespread.:)
Its good to hear most places ran "business as usual", its just not the part of the story I saw:)
Hehehe not a bad suggestion, but oddly enough, people were rather well mannered.
Shop keepers were handing out water bottles to commuters who had to walk home.
People volunteered to act as traffic officers at major intersections so cars and people could both flow toward "home" safely.
No rioting, but I remember an impromptu drum circle starting up about a block from Central Park along a busy thoroughfare. People stopped to listen, enjoyed some water, and then kept walking toward home.
2003. Most of the NorthEastern United States and the Eastern part of Canada went through a blackout that lasted ~1-3 days depending on where you were living.
Do the supermarkets in London have backup generators?
I'd be surprised at either the level of planning or the lack of faith in the local power grid that implied (not saying they would be wrong, just surprised at the additude).
In the U.S. at least, the only places I know of that maintain backup generators are Utilities (telephone company), and Emergency Services (police, fire, Hospitals).
Though there was a lot of preasure on the grid, the telephone company was able to keep power up on the telephone lines. This only worked if you had a standard phone (no wireless, plug-it into an electrical outlet for service phones).
Otherwise, things preaty much just shut down. Proudly enough, even though there was concern over rioting (similar to the blackout in the 60's), there were no wide spread riots, and most reports were people trying to help each other. My favorite memory was ordinary citizens using road flares and acting as traffic officers so people could keep crossing streets and cars could move without danger, until real police arrived to handle the major intersections.
Answer: Sony is invested in the Cell architecture along with IBM and hopes it will make a good core for a multi-media hub, by pushing chip holding multiple cores that can handle parallellized multimedia transformations quickly. Time will tell if IBM and Sony got this one right.
Obligatory Bonus Answer: Slashdot editors can't usually be bothered to RTFA or edit.:)
Alternate Bonus Answer: Most readers might recognize "PS3" over "Cell Processor" and wonder what the latter has to do with their lives, while the former might be critical to their future:D
Actually considering that the system will most likely have a network connection and some form of persistant storage, Sony might just use this feature to help keep unauthorized access (i.e. anything they haven't approved) to a minimum.
Wouldn't be surprised if this helped limit potential Homebrew activity.
Yes, signed drivers won't mater in this situation. On the other hand, IBM is hoping to use this chip in lots of other applications, which is why TFA on IBM's site is entitled "The Cell Broadband Engine processor security architecture" and doesn't mention the PS3.
Oddly enough, if the power is out, having cash may, or may not, help you.
I was in New York City during the blackout a few years ago. I had cash, on the other hand there wasn't much you could do with it. Some restaurants were open, but most were closed (no workers, no lights, no ability to ring up registers). The major stores (supermarkets and the like) were closed. No registers, no lights, no refridgeration.
Good luck finding a taxi... the streets were crowded and the traffic lights were out as well, but I suppose you could go somewhere by taxi.
All in all, the only store I know of that was open and doing business was the local hardware store, and the only thing they were selling was batteries.
Face it, our society has already become so dependant on electricity that in a lot of cases, if the power is out, having money may not help, there might be bigger issues to worry about.
The "extra automatic appeals and legal fees", artifacts of the current system, might be the issue also.
Do you believe that a person who has committed multiple mass murders should be put to death?
If you do then the question isn't wether people should be put to death, but rather for what reasons, and what proof is considered acceptable.
If you do not then I applaud your conviction that either we have no obligation to play g-d, or else that man has infinate ability to change.
There are cases where people commit truly violent crimes that defy most rational peoples minds. I feel sorry for those whose mental state put them into that situation. I even regret thier actions, and regret the response I feel is approriate in those cases. If there was an equivalent of "eternal banishment" that could be visited in place of death, I would be all for it. I just am unconvined that such a thing is feasible.
In light of that, I do not believe that they should be removed from society by the surest and quickest means available.
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Yes, and 'CFO' implies patsy, especially in these days of S-OX.
... it's quite another to censor an entire category of media that is widely enjoyed by adults who can make their own decisions.
Yes, but the real question is, "Are those adults, also ones who can make their own decisions, or are they ones letting others make them instead?"
Yes, but not everyone who has an iPod has an iPod video, and not everyone who has an iPod wants to carry it in addition to a PSP/DS, Phone, etc.
If they would have put a half-decent hard drive into this thing and done some Music/Video sync service, they could have driven it right down the Nano's throat.
You're right about not many people knowing how to deal with ACLs, even if they know how to deal with Windows rather well. Part of that, of course, is transitioning experience from Win3.1x, and Win9x where there were no file permissions. The other part is that for your average home user, they never were forced to learn before ("Oh, its just me and the missus, so I'm not worried about security. No need to set up accounts and have to deal with it.")
:)
My brother and sister-in-law recently got frustrated with visitors (and my niece) playing with their desktop, and trashing bookmarks, etc.
My solution? They now have a Parents log-in, and a log-in for everyone else. With WindowsXP there is no excuse for NOT doing this.
My favorite quote from the article was " This poses a potential support nightmare for Microsoft, which will have to deal with frustrated users who just want to get to their data files."
As if MS deals with user support calls themselves, as opposed to letting the hardware vendor such as Dell or Gateway handle those (or your local technical expert).
I am still waiting for the Jar Jar Binks edition. The one where the movies are done as they were meant to be, with Luke being replaced by Jar Jar Binks.
... that actually might explain a lot of the plot twists and acting style.
You know
Interesting idea, except that most articles I've seen mention that DirectX9 will be installed side by side on Vista, so I expect game companies will just focus on DX9 for the meanwhile.
Yes, but the real genius is expected in the 10.10 patch release.
DirectXXX, pr0n straight to you, from the internet.
The biggest problem MS has been creating by delaying LongHo... I mean Vista isn't just in dropped features.
... just pay us this big stack of cash and you're entitled to all the versions and updates we produce in the next two years.
... Oh ... were you expecting something?
Its also in licensing. When MS switched to their new licensing model they promised all their big customers that it would pay since MS SQL server would be out soon, along with a new version of Windows, so it made sense to go for the licensing.
After the delay MS SQL 2005 experianced, and this, I'll be real surprised if people are willing to believe them again.
It sounds almost like a Nigerian 419 scam:
Yeah
[3 years go by]
Spammers could start targeting their messages just at people who fit a certain demographic.
... just like the patent office).
And they could start sending their messages via USPS bulk rate.
This would surely bring about the end of civilization as we know it.
Nah, it'd just allow the U.S. to balance the budget (and turn the U.S.P.S. into a cost center for the government
Good reasons. As you point out, they would probably use different ones when targetting the geek audiance.
Unix derived system, complete with command line interface, coupled with some of the nicest, most integrated, and best supported eye-candy GUI that any Unix system has.
I was skeptical when we switched to them at work for development and support, but it works nicely.
Our product ships on a Linux platform, but in-house desktops and laptops are all OSX (except the occasional Windows machine kept for compatibility with some third party product for testing). Its been much easier having to support OSX, and interconnectivity has been a breeze since most tools for Linux also exist for OSX.
As an added bonus, the GUI is snappy, stable, gets updates for itself, and is a much nicer and more complete experiance than KDE or Gnome have been (in my experiance). My one major complaint is the lack of a second button on the built in trackpad (PowerBookG4), but using Ctrl-Click hasn't been as bad as I was expecting, since my fingers are close by the keyboard anyway with the trackpad.
In college several of my CompSci professors maintained labs with only Macs. These aren't stupid people, or computer illiterate ones. They felt they were the best choices in terms of stability, and useablity, and I have to admit, they seem to have been right.
I agree that a resonable approach might be to take a look at the actual evidence instead of "tossing out the baby with the bathwater".
Unfortunately, while we may champion the cause of science, I'm not always sure that most scientists (or at least the vocal ones), are able to look at evidence and question the beliefs they work in.
I remember seeing an article in Scientific American that explored how the Physics world was mostly static (at the time), and that they expected a major revolution soon to shake things up (similar to volcanic action of 'startling discovery' followed by development and then stagnation/domancy within a scientific field, until the next major discovery).
If you're interested in a different way of looking at things, I recomend Kicking the Sacred Cow by James P. Hogan. He's an interesting character (check out the Biography section), and the book poses a few interesting questions. Wether you agree or disagree with the ideas he brings forth, he's pretty good about including bibliographic notes so you can do your own "further research".
I'd recomend it for most Slashdot readers who are curious about a critical view of dogmatic scientific belief, but not of the scientific process itself.
interesting Video. I hadn't seen it, but it almost makes the name palatable :) ... still ... they could have named the Wii something else and still kept the cute 'i' animations.
Something like Mii (pronounced 'me') or iHi (pronounced 'e-he') and picture the 'i's using the 'H' as a net, or goal posts, or swing set, although I guess since Apple has gone all iThis and iThat they had to put a capitol, non-'i' character first or risk displeasure/lawsuit.
SCEx has been making money. Just a little less right now, probably due to PS3 development costs
Alternatively, if SCEx were planning on royalties from UMD format movies to tide them through the tail of the PS3 development cycle, then we could be seeing that bad decision playing out in their financial numbers (since UMD movies seem to be selling only slightly better than BetaMax currently is).
we do send them old computers. They 'recylce' them and destroy their environment.
Bruce Schneier points out that any ID card system will be flawed from the start because there is a human element in issuing and checking ID's.
...
A friend writes on the back of all her Credit Cards "Ask For My ID", in the signature location.
The idea is that while signatures can be forged "within reason", a photo ID is a more reliable verification of identity, so that if her cards are stolen
Anyway, you'd be surprised at how few places even bother to ask. Some just hand the card right back, some see the signature line and decide to either ignore it, or that it is too much of a hastle.
From what I could see it looks like this is something that a given application would have to turn on.
Hopefully most mod-friendly games won't. On the other hand, as another poster mentioned, if this can help eliminate mods for on-line multiplay, then it might be a good thing if it can be enabled under certain circumstances.
Well ... to take the position of "Devil's Advocate" for a minute, if they just extended bash to have C# scripting, then you'd have lots of people on this forum yelling how they are perverting the standard and that this is just aploy for them to embrace and extend the existing shell language.
.Net
.Net bindings for Perl, that may be an even better choice for a scripting language.
Look at it from MS's perspective:
1) They know they need a shell like language to handle sys admin type functions.
2) They've just put a lot of effort into
3) Most of the MS Admins out there believe VB is the tool of choice.
Given those suppositions (feel free to argue about their reality, but remember that I'm discussing it from MS's viewpoint), a scripting language that fullfills (1), takes advantage of (2) and leverages (3) seems like a no brainer, even for them.
Of course, considering that there are
There aren't many Bodegas by where I live, only two super markets. Unfortunately the nearest place to get food is a Dagastinos and I was between jobs when the blackout happened.
... then I realized it was a bit more widespread. :)
:)
Oddly enough my wife and I had been having problems with our Fuse box the week before (we had lost power for two days due to a loose wire and had to have the landlord get an electrician in). The first thing that went through my mind when the lights died was "Not again". I was almost happy when I opened the door to the hall and realized it wasn't just me
Its good to hear most places ran "business as usual", its just not the part of the story I saw
Hehehe not a bad suggestion, but oddly enough, people were rather well mannered.
Shop keepers were handing out water bottles to commuters who had to walk home.
People volunteered to act as traffic officers at major intersections so cars and people could both flow toward "home" safely.
No rioting, but I remember an impromptu drum circle starting up about a block from Central Park along a busy thoroughfare. People stopped to listen, enjoyed some water, and then kept walking toward home.
2003. Most of the NorthEastern United States and the Eastern part of Canada went through a blackout that lasted ~1-3 days depending on where you were living.
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Do the supermarkets in London have backup generators?
I'd be surprised at either the level of planning or the lack of faith in the local power grid that implied (not saying they would be wrong, just surprised at the additude).
In the U.S. at least, the only places I know of that maintain backup generators are Utilities (telephone company), and Emergency Services (police, fire, Hospitals).
Though there was a lot of preasure on the grid, the telephone company was able to keep power up on the telephone lines. This only worked if you had a standard phone (no wireless, plug-it into an electrical outlet for service phones).
Otherwise, things preaty much just shut down. Proudly enough, even though there was concern over rioting (similar to the blackout in the 60's), there were no wide spread riots, and most reports were people trying to help each other. My favorite memory was ordinary citizens using road flares and acting as traffic officers so people could keep crossing streets and cars could move without danger, until real police arrived to handle the major intersections.
Answer: Sony is invested in the Cell architecture along with IBM and hopes it will make a good core for a multi-media hub, by pushing chip holding multiple cores that can handle parallellized multimedia transformations quickly. Time will tell if IBM and Sony got this one right.
:)
:D
Obligatory Bonus Answer: Slashdot editors can't usually be bothered to RTFA or edit.
Alternate Bonus Answer: Most readers might recognize "PS3" over "Cell Processor" and wonder what the latter has to do with their lives, while the former might be critical to their future
Actually considering that the system will most likely have a network connection and some form of persistant storage, Sony might just use this feature to help keep unauthorized access (i.e. anything they haven't approved) to a minimum.
Wouldn't be surprised if this helped limit potential Homebrew activity.
Yes, signed drivers won't mater in this situation. On the other hand, IBM is hoping to use this chip in lots of other applications, which is why TFA on IBM's site is entitled "The Cell Broadband Engine processor security architecture" and doesn't mention the PS3.
Oddly enough, if the power is out, having cash may, or may not, help you.
... the streets were crowded and the traffic lights were out as well, but I suppose you could go somewhere by taxi.
I was in New York City during the blackout a few years ago. I had cash, on the other hand there wasn't much you could do with it.
Some restaurants were open, but most were closed (no workers, no lights, no ability to ring up registers).
The major stores (supermarkets and the like) were closed. No registers, no lights, no refridgeration.
Good luck finding a taxi
All in all, the only store I know of that was open and doing business was the local hardware store, and the only thing they were selling was batteries.
Face it, our society has already become so dependant on electricity that in a lot of cases, if the power is out, having money may not help, there might be bigger issues to worry about.
My problem might be (under the current system).
The "extra automatic appeals and legal fees", artifacts of the current system, might be the issue also.
Do you believe that a person who has committed multiple mass murders should be put to death?
If you do then the question isn't wether people should be put to death, but rather for what reasons, and what proof is considered acceptable.
If you do not then I applaud your conviction that either we have no obligation to play g-d, or else that man has infinate ability to change.
There are cases where people commit truly violent crimes that defy most rational peoples minds. I feel sorry for those whose mental state put them into that situation. I even regret thier actions, and regret the response I feel is approriate in those cases. If there was an equivalent of "eternal banishment" that could be visited in place of death, I would be all for it. I just am unconvined that such a thing is feasible.
In light of that, I do not believe that they should be removed from society by the surest and quickest means available.