There were hacks and cheats for Quake II before the source release. There's hacks and cheats for Diablo and Diablo II. There's hacks and cheats for most games out there. All of those are closed source or were at the time the hacks and cheats were made.
Security through obscurity doesn't work anywhere near as well as people keep thinking it does.
Quake I/II/III were or still are closed source. Before the source release of I and II, there were a plethora of proxy cheats, etc. out there and the sources were closed.
Solving cheating requires NOT trusting the client- EVER. If you can come up with a playable game that meets that criteria, you'll have a relatively cheat-proof system. Problem is, that's really compute intensive and bandwidth intensive to not trust the client.
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...than the initial article. Had you done a little more research, you'd have found out that they used natural fibers (wool, etc.) to make it and that they used non-environmental impacting dyes, etc. in the rest of the manufacture. It's won many awards and apparently works rather well.
People need to realize the costs of the disposal/waste that they produce and add them in acccordingly. Sure, the stuff's cheap, but people aren't paying for the problems right now either.
Geez... The USPTO will rubber-stamp anything these days, won't they? This isn't really even patentable let alone meeting the un-obviousness criteria.
The only reason why they haven't set up an "attention brokerage" is that it's deuced hard to manage with what we've got in place and the people buying the ads and selling the ads still think the old ways work.
Yeah, and it's the same story with a MS or other proprietary solution- and all you can do when you use that is point at 'them' (Sue them? Yeah, riiight.), blame 'them', and hope to hell the powers that be buy into your excuse and don't just fire you on the spot.
In all honesty, if you're in that scenerio, they're most likely going to fire your sorry ass anyhow- so I'd rather like to have that desitiny as something I can control a lot better.
I don't see MS as providing the needed control of things to ensure that it really wasn't my fault on something- and I've not seen them as an answer for years now.
...that for that amount you bought a UnitedLinux image for, you can't give it to someone else or install it on multiple machines- because they're not licensing the distribution to you in that manner. One seat, one copy.
The GPL places no restrictions on use of the binaries, etc. and prohibits distribution with systems that do unless you add exception clauses at the end of the license to allow the same- UnitedLinux states flatly that this is the case, that you can't use the distribution on more than one system.
It boils down to the fact that anyone trying this is really violating the GPL license grant on several levels and the group should be told that they can't distribute the same.
...even though it was worded to look like one. It's a promise, which is not the same thing as a license. A license is a binding agreement/contract, spelling out what you get if you abide by certain stipulated terms and what those terms are. All Red Hat did was say they promise to not sue open source developers over any infringements- there's no implicit or explicit statement that you can use the covered items, just that they won't pursue infringement proceedings over those uses.
The whole thing's pretty much trying to placate the Open Source and Free Software communities over what appears to be an only partly thought out, business driven decision that could cost them the real value proposition the company has- their Free Software reputation.
The GPL breaks down if a Patent is enforcable against it (i.e. you don't have a license to use the patented stuff...). Unless Red Hat hands us a license like TimeSys has for GPL, etc. users on the Real-Time Linux patents, it's not good at all. If there's not a license, forget ANYTHING to do with the TUX webserver enhancement.
Tradmarks require enforcement. Patents and Copyrights do not. Now, having said that, there's some leave-way in what you can get out of someone if you knew they were infringing and did nothing about it for a handful of years- but it doesn't invalidate the patent.
And I'll be in line to snag the AGP solution as soon as it hits the shelves. It's a nice, small, relatively quiet (as Athlons go...) machine. The SiS 315 based display adapter is decent if I couldn't wait and needed a Windows box (It'd be a better choice if they'd release info to make drivers for it or rolled the drivers themselves for Linux...). Since I use Linux, I really need a supported 3D card and AGP support is the ideal way for resolving that issue.
Any of the things you suggest (incl. the C3...) are much lower performing machines. That's not knocking what you're suggesting (In fact, I'm on the lookout for the best prices on a C3 based slimline box myself...)- it's just that all of them are nothing compared to the slightly noisier Athlon solution presented.
I just posted this comment under the comment about the website not accepting anything other than IE 5.0 or newer. It got migrated to the root discussion...
Use IE, Konqueror, etc. short-term, to get to their comments page and let them know it's a BAD idea to do this. They're going to alienate just short of half to over half of their potential customer base by doing this stupid stuff. What's stupid is that they were reachable not all that long ago by anything- and the site's just fine with Konqueror set to lie to the site about what is calling.
Someone needs a clue-by-fouring over there- badly.
...don't forget the UV LED flashlight as well. They're real and they're out there. Spencer's has been carrying the single LED units for something like $8US in most locations. (They'll be behind the counter in most cases.). The light emitted is faintly violet and will strongly light up fluoresent materials up close. The link is to an agressive model with 3 LEDs, intended for professional use by jewelers and forensic scientists.
Dust and scratches- you'd have the same problems with that on any medium that uses optics. CD's are just as plagued by dusty lenses and CDs, and a good scratch will K-O your disc.
Size, can't argue that one- LP's and 45's aren't as convienient as a CD. However, CD's are discontinuous because of their very nature and no matter what approximations you use, it's not the same sound as was originally captured. Don't get me wrong, I like my CDs because of the size and relative problem free nature of them. I just don't think Vinyl is as bad as people make it out to be.
The drivers that were written for the 300 were okay when they shipped them, but they opted to discontinue support for whatever reason (and they've been kind of broken since then...) and haven't released any drivers for the 315 or for the Xabre that I know of. They tend to NOT give out 3D programming info, even to their NDAed partners, so that avenue for driver support has been pretty much a dead-end so far. (I plan on pestering them again to see if things have lightened up or maybe that I've been talking to the wrong people there...)
There's every reason for someone to not expect them to provide Linux support with this display chipset.
We tried prying the data from them for the 3D support- and Coollogic HAS an NDA with them. So far, no go- all we got so far was the 2D and MPEG stuff from them. I'm going to give it another go shortly, hopefully with at least marginally better results.
By rights, if you accept the higher bandwidth present with RDRAM, it should be doing dramatically better than DDR SDRAM. It's not. This is because it takes longer for the RDRAM to respond when it's accessed. If you're doing large blocks of things in memory, you might see an advantage. I say might because modern CPUs don't do as well with large blocks of data (stuff pops out of cache, etc.) so any advantage there is masked at least partly by cache misses, etc. The same goes for display chips for differing reasons- display chips access memory VERY regularly and very often. The latencies present in RDRAM might be too much.
While the benchmarks he ran show nice bandwidth figures (Negligible, really, in light of how expensive that RDRAM is- if that's all this new memory spec can do, well...) it doesn't tell the whole story. There's bandwidth and then there's latency. In the case of RAMBUS, there's more latency involved with the access of the memory than with DDR SDRAM- latency that may eat some or all the bandwidth gains you see there when you start doing something other than benchmarks. If it's not really much faster (Sorry, it's not when you start looking at the bigger picture), why are you spending 3 or more times for it?
If you don't have a contact with the vinyl disc, it's less likely to degrade- no different than a CD. Now, a laser based turntable's not cheap, but when you start looking at things that way, the Vinyl record starts winning to at least some extent.
They keep passing insane laws- ones that we swear are too nutso to be allowed and strip away what all save the businesses consider to be rights.
The people in the government tend to not listen to anyone except those with the most cash- because they're unafraid of being held accountable for their actions by their constituencies.
Both groups think nothing of what we want- they just view us as a resource, a source of funds or a "vote" that they can strip-mine at their whims.
This is because the populace has become apathetic- they view that there's little that they can do about it. There's nothing for them to take a stand over.
You HAVE to spell it out in clear, understandable terms what you're doing and why. You have to use analogies like the wedding recording one to show people just exactly what RIAA and MPAA are asking their legislators to make into law. And you have to stick to your guns and not go and buy their stuff. Make sure you explain to people exactly why you're doing this (incl. that lovely example...).
The desktop market is the same way, believe it or not. Nobody truly gives a damn so long as it works- it's just that MS has convinced people that Windows is "easier" to use, which it really isn't.
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And I'm more than impressed with MusicRebellion's site. I think you guys may be on to something there...
There were hacks and cheats for Quake II before the source release. There's hacks and cheats for Diablo and Diablo II. There's hacks and cheats for most games out there. All of those are closed source or were at the time the hacks and cheats were made.
Security through obscurity doesn't work anywhere near as well as people keep thinking it does.
Quake I/II/III were or still are closed source. Before the source release of I and II, there were a plethora of proxy cheats, etc. out there and the sources were closed.
Solving cheating requires NOT trusting the client- EVER. If you can come up with a playable game that meets that criteria, you'll have a relatively cheat-proof system. Problem is, that's really compute intensive and bandwidth intensive to not trust the client.
...than the initial article. Had you done a little more research, you'd have found out that they used natural fibers (wool, etc.) to make it and that they used non-environmental impacting dyes, etc. in the rest of the manufacture. It's won many awards and apparently works rather well.
People need to realize the costs of the disposal/waste that they produce and add them in acccordingly. Sure, the stuff's cheap, but people aren't paying for the problems right now either.
Geez... The USPTO will rubber-stamp anything these days, won't they? This isn't really even patentable let alone meeting the un-obviousness criteria.
The only reason why they haven't set up an "attention brokerage" is that it's deuced hard to manage with what we've got in place and the people buying the ads and selling the ads still think the old ways work.
...they can't have that, now can they?
Yeah, and it's the same story with a MS or other proprietary solution- and all you can do when you use that is point at 'them' (Sue them? Yeah, riiight.), blame 'them', and hope to hell the powers that be buy into your excuse and don't just fire you on the spot.
In all honesty, if you're in that scenerio, they're most likely going to fire your sorry ass anyhow- so I'd rather like to have that desitiny as something I can control a lot better.
I don't see MS as providing the needed control of things to ensure that it really wasn't my fault on something- and I've not seen them as an answer for years now.
...that for that amount you bought a UnitedLinux image for, you can't give it to someone else or install it on multiple machines- because they're not licensing the distribution to you in that manner. One seat, one copy.
The GPL places no restrictions on use of the binaries, etc. and prohibits distribution with systems that do unless you add exception clauses at the end of the license to allow the same- UnitedLinux states flatly that this is the case, that you can't use the distribution on more than one system.
It boils down to the fact that anyone trying this is really violating the GPL license grant on several levels and the group should be told that they can't distribute the same.
...even though it was worded to look like one. It's a promise, which is not the same thing as a license. A license is a binding agreement/contract, spelling out what you get if you abide by certain stipulated terms and what those terms are. All Red Hat did was say they promise to not sue open source developers over any infringements- there's no implicit or explicit statement that you can use the covered items, just that they won't pursue infringement proceedings over those uses.
The whole thing's pretty much trying to placate the Open Source and Free Software communities over what appears to be an only partly thought out, business driven decision that could cost them the real value proposition the company has- their Free Software reputation.
The GPL breaks down if a Patent is enforcable against it (i.e. you don't have a license to use the patented stuff...). Unless Red Hat hands us a license like TimeSys has for GPL, etc. users on the Real-Time Linux patents, it's not good at all. If there's not a license, forget ANYTHING to do with the TUX webserver enhancement.
Tradmarks require enforcement. Patents and Copyrights do not. Now, having said that, there's some leave-way in what you can get out of someone if you knew they were infringing and did nothing about it for a handful of years- but it doesn't invalidate the patent.
Try "in/molnar" next time you're over at the USPTO's site when you search against the applications database. The items don't have an Asignee yet.
And I'll be in line to snag the AGP solution as soon as it hits the shelves. It's a nice, small, relatively quiet (as Athlons go...) machine. The SiS 315 based display adapter is decent if I couldn't wait and needed a Windows box (It'd be a better choice if they'd release info to make drivers for it or rolled the drivers themselves for Linux...). Since I use Linux, I really need a supported 3D card and AGP support is the ideal way for resolving that issue.
Any of the things you suggest (incl. the C3...) are much lower performing machines. That's not knocking what you're suggesting (In fact, I'm on the lookout for the best prices on a C3 based slimline box myself...)- it's just that all of them are nothing compared to the slightly noisier Athlon solution presented.
I just posted this comment under the comment about the website not accepting anything other than IE 5.0 or newer. It got migrated to the root discussion...
Use IE, Konqueror, etc. short-term, to get to their comments page and let them know it's a BAD idea to do this. They're going to alienate just short of half to over half of their potential customer base by doing this stupid stuff. What's stupid is that they were reachable not all that long ago by anything- and the site's just fine with Konqueror set to lie to the site about what is calling.
Someone needs a clue-by-fouring over there- badly.
...don't forget the UV LED flashlight as well. They're real and they're out there. Spencer's has been carrying the single LED units for something like $8US in most locations. (They'll be behind the counter in most cases.). The light emitted is faintly violet and will strongly light up fluoresent materials up close. The link is to an agressive model with 3 LEDs, intended for professional use by jewelers and forensic scientists.
Dust and scratches- you'd have the same problems with that on any medium that uses optics. CD's are just as plagued by dusty lenses and CDs, and a good scratch will K-O your disc.
Size, can't argue that one- LP's and 45's aren't as convienient as a CD. However, CD's are discontinuous because of their very nature and no matter what approximations you use, it's not the same sound as was originally captured. Don't get me wrong, I like my CDs because of the size and relative problem free nature of them. I just don't think Vinyl is as bad as people make it out to be.
The drivers that were written for the 300 were okay when they shipped them, but they opted to discontinue support for whatever reason (and they've been kind of broken since then...) and haven't released any drivers for the 315 or for the Xabre that I know of. They tend to NOT give out 3D programming info, even to their NDAed partners, so that avenue for driver support has been pretty much a dead-end so far. (I plan on pestering them again to see if things have lightened up or maybe that I've been talking to the wrong people there...)
There's every reason for someone to not expect them to provide Linux support with this display chipset.
We tried prying the data from them for the 3D support- and Coollogic HAS an NDA with them. So far, no go- all we got so far was the 2D and MPEG stuff from them. I'm going to give it another go shortly, hopefully with at least marginally better results.
By rights, if you accept the higher bandwidth present with RDRAM, it should be doing dramatically better than DDR SDRAM. It's not. This is because it takes longer for the RDRAM to respond when it's accessed. If you're doing large blocks of things in memory, you might see an advantage. I say might because modern CPUs don't do as well with large blocks of data (stuff pops out of cache, etc.) so any advantage there is masked at least partly by cache misses, etc. The same goes for display chips for differing reasons- display chips access memory VERY regularly and very often. The latencies present in RDRAM might be too much.
While the benchmarks he ran show nice bandwidth figures (Negligible, really, in light of how expensive that RDRAM is- if that's all this new memory spec can do, well...) it doesn't tell the whole story. There's bandwidth and then there's latency. In the case of RAMBUS, there's more latency involved with the access of the memory than with DDR SDRAM- latency that may eat some or all the bandwidth gains you see there when you start doing something other than benchmarks. If it's not really much faster (Sorry, it's not when you start looking at the bigger picture), why are you spending 3 or more times for it?
If you don't have a contact with the vinyl disc, it's less likely to degrade- no different than a CD. Now, a laser based turntable's not cheap, but when you start looking at things that way, the Vinyl record starts winning to at least some extent.
They keep passing insane laws- ones that we swear are too nutso to be allowed and strip away what all save the businesses consider to be rights.
The people in the government tend to not listen to anyone except those with the most cash- because they're unafraid of being held accountable for their actions by their constituencies.
Both groups think nothing of what we want- they just view us as a resource, a source of funds or a "vote" that they can strip-mine at their whims.
This is because the populace has become apathetic- they view that there's little that they can do about it. There's nothing for them to take a stand over.
You HAVE to spell it out in clear, understandable terms what you're doing and why. You have to use analogies like the wedding recording one to show people just exactly what RIAA and MPAA are asking their legislators to make into law. And you have to stick to your guns and not go and buy their stuff. Make sure you explain to people exactly why you're doing this (incl. that lovely example...).
The desktop market is the same way, believe it or not. Nobody truly gives a damn so long as it works- it's just that MS has convinced people that Windows is "easier" to use, which it really isn't.