And I don't see any car dealerships selling Maybach jerseys
Hmm, how many 14 year old boys (or even 30 year old men!) have Porsche or Ferrari posters on their walls, their screensavers, etc? How many of them will ever buy one?
I almost started going off about how the NFL has been way beyond "blue collar fans" for decades (I guarantee 95% of the hardcore football fans glued to their TVs on Sunday have not attended an NFL game in years, if ever). And about how there are no more tickets available for them if they wanted to go (many franchises have season ticket waiting lists of 10+ years... actually, from my experience Chicago Bears season tickets are practically at the "inherited" stage). But then I realized - go to a pregame tailgate and you'll find a lot of those "blue collar fans" (well, ok, at least "non-rich" fans) with said season tickets who would not be able to keep them if they were $300+ a game...
I think that was just bad journalism. The vast majority of lag is network loss/latency to the server, not client CPU issues. As you poing out, if the problem is just not enough CPU available, the answer would be LESS prediction, not more:)
if gaming has a blockbuster franchise to match the movie industry's punch, it's the tale of Master Chief
Give me a break. Just look at the sales numbers, production cost, soundtrack, and acting talent (and just plain GAMEPLAY, in fact!) If gaming "has a blockbuster franchise to match the movie industry's punch", there is NO WAY it's Halo. The real blockbuster has 3 letters, not 4. And they spell GTA.
Doom 3 is cited for 3.5 million PC sales. Would you want to throw those out the window so you could kick the game out the door six months earlier in console only form?
Maybe... and especially if it was in time for the holiday season, which can be a huge boost to a console game's sales. If they gain more console sales than they lose on PC sales, they win... (especially if they can just put out the PC version 6 months later and pick up any of the less hard-core gamers who don't just buy it on the first platform it's released on).
What if the good sales figures were just because Doom 3 came out on the PC only? (it was released a year later on the XBox, at that time already a WAY inferior platform than current PC hardware).
Look at the discrepancy for recent games released simultaneously on modern consoles and PCs (ie what the OP mentions plus many others).
I bet if Doom 3 (or Doom 4?) was released today on the PC and 360, the 360 would outsell the PC just like all of the other ones. You are using a game from 2004 as your example, which is mostly irrelevant in 2007. I think Bioshock is a perfect example of how the industry is going... in fact, it's one of the first times I had a choice between both platforms, and decided on the 360 version over the PC - and am glad I did...
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A review should cover the entire experience
A review is a subjective thing that covers the REVIEWER'S experience. In this case, he played it on the XBox 360, where there are no DRM issues. And if he had installed it on a PC, and did not have any installation or DRM issues, then how can that factor in his experience with the game, either?
Generally, yes. A virus could check for the existence of one of these rootkits, and abuse its hidden locations to hide itself. Which means that a virus can hide from even rootkit detectors in the shadow of "legitimate" software.
Well, the thing to remember is that the software installed is for a USB fingerprint reader. I would say that if you are using biometrics rather than a simple password, you are adding security to your computer. The point of the hidden directory was probably to "try harder" to keep sensitive data hidden from people trying to break said securtiy. So, it's very possible that *generally* the computer is more secure, but *very specifically* there is one more thing that could be a problem.
That said, this does sound like a pretty overcomplicated and stupid way to hide data... yet more security through obscurity...
Yep, amazing. They lifted the already stupid title of TFA and managed to make it even more stupid by replacing the only accurate word ("overtakes") with "kills"... sigh.
If by "point here" you mean at slashdot, I agree completely, and hope the RIAA gets slammed. But the reason lawyers take class action cases like this is not to take anyone "down a few notches", but to make a killing by speculating on winning a big settlement. They will take these cases on contingency, so there is no good reason to donate money to them out of your own pocket just to "support the cause".
It is too much because you don't actually need strong encryption to stop traffic limiting. Simply adding some random padding and XORing the protocol with the torrent's infohash would be enough - it is a private key random enough that they couldn't check them all. The RC4 encryption was seriously over-thought, and what did it give us? Nothing, because apparently it is still identifiable as bittorrent (or at least as RC4 encrypted traffic).
How is this insightful? It's completely wrong!
RC4 over-thought!? The whole point of using RC4 is that it is trivially simple to implement (you can do so easily in 30 lines of code) and FAST. And RC4 itself is not identifiable, it's just a pseudorandom stream of bytes. What would be identifiable is any headers, etc that bittorrent may use that are not part of the RC4'ed datastream, or the protocol for key exchange, etc, none of which have anything to do with RC4.
Anyway, it's obvious you don't know much about RC4, since XORing the data with a keystream initialized from a key is already how it works - why would you want to XOR everything again in a much less secure way? I'm not trying to be harsh... but if you want to learn about RC4 start with something like the Wikipedia page - it does a good job of decribing the trivially simple yet ingenious algorithm...
guess it is like the OpenOffice.org foundation, every piece of code you give to them, you *must* waive your rights to make them the proprietors of such code.
Openoffice.org uses a JCA, which stands for JOINT Copyright Assignment. You do not waive your rights, you just give them rights as well, so that you can't rescind their right to use the code later. From openoffice.org:
In order to contribute code to the project, you must submit the Joint Copyright Assignment form (JCA). This form jointly assigns copyright over your work to yourself and to Sun Microsystems.
I believe in the past they used a more restrictive policy... and received a lot less contributions. Hence the joint assignment.
Maybe RedHat, but again, MySQL does not need to follow the letter of the GPL, at least for MySQL database, as they are the ones who hold the copyright... YOU must comply with the GPL if you want to modify and distribute their software.
Not quite... they hold the copyright for your code only if you choose to assign it to them. If you receive the code under the GPL, modify it, and distribute it, you have to follow the GPL. If you don't transfer your ownership to them, then they can't use your code under any other license, either (which of course means don't expect to see it in any MySQL official source trees).
Obviously it's not illegal to do whatever you want with source code you own. My point was it IS illegal to violate a license to something you don't own. To be clear, I'm not getting indigninant about "law breaking corporations"... I think open source is a good thing, but you should have as much right to choose what to do with your own work as you do to follow any religion you want (even Scientology or the FSF).
I was really agreeing with you until you said: "Redhat, MySQL, and other companies like them are closing much of their source because..."
Redhat and MySQL are NOT closing their open source. That would in fact be illegal and unethical, because they did greatly benefit from (and in Redhat's case, built the whole product around) open source licensed with the GPL and contributed to by many OSS developers under that license.
But in fact, all they have done is start following the strict letter of the GPL, which is basically "you have to make source available when distributing binaries". Not only do they still follow that, but they still support and make freely available a community version of their project as well.
Based on your post I can't imagine you'd argue with that... I just found it a bit ironic that you propgated misperception that OSS companies are evil for "closing their source" when you seemed to be arguing against that FUD:)
No they don't. The majority of monitors sold surely, but monitors last for many years. Mine is over 10 years old, and has survived three or four PCs. There are a lot of old systems and even older monitors in use.
So because you are using old technology the majority still is? You logic and proof is amazing.
I have not seen a single CRT used in any office I have worked at in the last 4 years. And I work on set-top boxes, so most people also have a TV at their desk, too (which are always LCDs for size and power usage considerations). That's, say a sample of ~500, at 100% LCD use. I would bet if I asked all of those people if they still use a CRT with their computer at home (probably 1/2 of them only have laptops these days anyway, which I'm guessing are not CRT-based) that at MOST 5% still do. Business use (and power consumption) of computers dwarfs home use these days, anyway, and few companies keep 10 year old CRTs when LCDs are cheap and provide huge power and desktop space savings - which is why this article is really stupid in the first place.
Are there still CRTs in use? Sure. Can we safely say LCDs have are now in the vast majority? OBVIOUSLY.
Exactly! In the end, how many people care about great cellular and DSL coverage in North Dakota? According to the previous poster, about 3 per sq km:)
I just want better than 3Mbps DSL and usable cellular coverage from AT&T that actually works in my home and office in the middle of the SF Bay Area! (I live 3 miles from Google's HQ, and work 3 miles from Intel's HQ - if I can't get reasonable service here what hope does North Dakota have?
I was really hoping for 128 GB solid state to come out with IDE connectors. That would allow one final replacement, good until the computer is truly an antique.
Ok, then I completely change my post. If you are willing to buy a 128GB SSD (which will debut at a good $2+ I imagine) then - once your PATA HDD dies - BUY A NEW SATA MOTHERBOARD. And before you complain that your perfect tiny mobo is PATA only - I don't care. You want to spend that money, you can track down a PATA IDE drive for many years to come.
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WHOOSH over AC's head!
And I don't see any car dealerships selling Maybach jerseys
Hmm, how many 14 year old boys (or even 30 year old men!) have Porsche or Ferrari posters on their walls, their screensavers, etc? How many of them will ever buy one?
I almost started going off about how the NFL has been way beyond "blue collar fans" for decades (I guarantee 95% of the hardcore football fans glued to their TVs on Sunday have not attended an NFL game in years, if ever). And about how there are no more tickets available for them if they wanted to go (many franchises have season ticket waiting lists of 10+ years... actually, from my experience Chicago Bears season tickets are practically at the "inherited" stage). But then I realized - go to a pregame tailgate and you'll find a lot of those "blue collar fans" (well, ok, at least "non-rich" fans) with said season tickets who would not be able to keep them if they were $300+ a game...
I think that was just bad journalism. The vast majority of lag is network loss/latency to the server, not client CPU issues. As you poing out, if the problem is just not enough CPU available, the answer would be LESS prediction, not more :)
Sony, you are making a huge mistake.
Yeah, you'd think they would have learned something after hearing this, what, like 10 times already in relation to the PS3??
if gaming has a blockbuster franchise to match the movie industry's punch, it's the tale of Master Chief
Give me a break. Just look at the sales numbers, production cost, soundtrack, and acting talent (and just plain GAMEPLAY, in fact!) If gaming "has a blockbuster franchise to match the movie industry's punch", there is NO WAY it's Halo. The real blockbuster has 3 letters, not 4. And they spell GTA.
Obviously they were completely unable to sense slashdot coming at them.
Doom 3 is cited for 3.5 million PC sales. Would you want to throw those out the window so you could kick the game out the door six months earlier in console only form?
Maybe... and especially if it was in time for the holiday season, which can be a huge boost to a console game's sales. If they gain more console sales than they lose on PC sales, they win... (especially if they can just put out the PC version 6 months later and pick up any of the less hard-core gamers who don't just buy it on the first platform it's released on).
What if the good sales figures were just because Doom 3 came out on the PC only? (it was released a year later on the XBox, at that time already a WAY inferior platform than current PC hardware).
Look at the discrepancy for recent games released simultaneously on modern consoles and PCs (ie what the OP mentions plus many others).
I bet if Doom 3 (or Doom 4?) was released today on the PC and 360, the 360 would outsell the PC just like all of the other ones. You are using a game from 2004 as your example, which is mostly irrelevant in 2007. I think Bioshock is a perfect example of how the industry is going... in fact, it's one of the first times I had a choice between both platforms, and decided on the 360 version over the PC - and am glad I did...
A review should cover the entire experience
A review is a subjective thing that covers the REVIEWER'S experience. In this case, he played it on the XBox 360, where there are no DRM issues. And if he had installed it on a PC, and did not have any installation or DRM issues, then how can that factor in his experience with the game, either?
Generally, yes. A virus could check for the existence of one of these rootkits, and abuse its hidden locations to hide itself. Which means that a virus can hide from even rootkit detectors in the shadow of "legitimate" software.
Well, the thing to remember is that the software installed is for a USB fingerprint reader. I would say that if you are using biometrics rather than a simple password, you are adding security to your computer. The point of the hidden directory was probably to "try harder" to keep sensitive data hidden from people trying to break said securtiy. So, it's very possible that *generally* the computer is more secure, but *very specifically* there is one more thing that could be a problem.
That said, this does sound like a pretty overcomplicated and stupid way to hide data... yet more security through obscurity...
I'd mod you up for that one if I hadn't already posted in this thread ;)
Interesting - that makes the XBOX 360 $200 cheaper than the PS3 if you compare them with equivalent warranties...
Then again, I have not heard many reports of PS3 accessories smoking when you plug them in.
REAL prior art exists as well! (well real virtual)
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The virtual fuzzy dice were the best part!
Yep, amazing. They lifted the already stupid title of TFA and managed to make it even more stupid by replacing the only accurate word ("overtakes") with "kills"... sigh.
Yes, it was a brief war in 2004 - called the presidential elections...
If by "point here" you mean at slashdot, I agree completely, and hope the RIAA gets slammed. But the reason lawyers take class action cases like this is not to take anyone "down a few notches", but to make a killing by speculating on winning a big settlement. They will take these cases on contingency, so there is no good reason to donate money to them out of your own pocket just to "support the cause".
It is too much because you don't actually need strong encryption to stop traffic limiting. Simply adding some random padding and XORing the protocol with the torrent's infohash would be enough - it is a private key random enough that they couldn't check them all. The RC4 encryption was seriously over-thought, and what did it give us? Nothing, because apparently it is still identifiable as bittorrent (or at least as RC4 encrypted traffic).
How is this insightful? It's completely wrong!
RC4 over-thought!? The whole point of using RC4 is that it is trivially simple to implement (you can do so easily in 30 lines of code) and FAST. And RC4 itself is not identifiable, it's just a pseudorandom stream of bytes. What would be identifiable is any headers, etc that bittorrent may use that are not part of the RC4'ed datastream, or the protocol for key exchange, etc, none of which have anything to do with RC4.
Anyway, it's obvious you don't know much about RC4, since XORing the data with a keystream initialized from a key is already how it works - why would you want to XOR everything again in a much less secure way? I'm not trying to be harsh... but if you want to learn about RC4 start with something like the Wikipedia page - it does a good job of decribing the trivially simple yet ingenious algorithm...
Feel free to throw your money away giving it to class action lawyers. I'm sure they will split their massive commission with you if they win.
guess it is like the OpenOffice.org foundation, every piece of code you give to them, you *must* waive your rights to make them the proprietors of such code.
Openoffice.org uses a JCA, which stands for JOINT Copyright Assignment. You do not waive your rights, you just give them rights as well, so that you can't rescind their right to use the code later. From openoffice.org:
In order to contribute code to the project, you must submit the Joint Copyright Assignment form (JCA). This form jointly assigns copyright over your work to yourself and to Sun Microsystems.
I believe in the past they used a more restrictive policy... and received a lot less contributions. Hence the joint assignment.
Maybe RedHat, but again, MySQL does not need to follow the letter of the GPL, at least for MySQL database, as they are the ones who hold the copyright... YOU must comply with the GPL if you want to modify and distribute their software.
Not quite... they hold the copyright for your code only if you choose to assign it to them. If you receive the code under the GPL, modify it, and distribute it, you have to follow the GPL. If you don't transfer your ownership to them, then they can't use your code under any other license, either (which of course means don't expect to see it in any MySQL official source trees).
Obviously it's not illegal to do whatever you want with source code you own. My point was it IS illegal to violate a license to something you don't own. To be clear, I'm not getting indigninant about "law breaking corporations"... I think open source is a good thing, but you should have as much right to choose what to do with your own work as you do to follow any religion you want (even Scientology or the FSF).
I was really agreeing with you until you said: "Redhat, MySQL, and other companies like them are closing much of their source because..."
:)
Redhat and MySQL are NOT closing their open source. That would in fact be illegal and unethical, because they did greatly benefit from (and in Redhat's case, built the whole product around) open source licensed with the GPL and contributed to by many OSS developers under that license.
But in fact, all they have done is start following the strict letter of the GPL, which is basically "you have to make source available when distributing binaries". Not only do they still follow that, but they still support and make freely available a community version of their project as well.
Based on your post I can't imagine you'd argue with that... I just found it a bit ironic that you propgated misperception that OSS companies are evil for "closing their source" when you seemed to be arguing against that FUD
1.2MB/s = 9.6 Mb/s, so that download is in fact limited by your 8-10 Mb/s connection.
Not that it means you should necessarily pay any more for more bandwitdth - unless you have some urgent NEED to get data faster than 1.2MB/s...
Yet apparently you were able to overcome the MASSIVE difficulties involved in signing up for a /. ID...
No they don't. The majority of monitors sold surely, but monitors last for many years. Mine is over 10 years old, and has survived three or four PCs. There are a lot of old systems and even older monitors in use.
So because you are using old technology the majority still is? You logic and proof is amazing.
I have not seen a single CRT used in any office I have worked at in the last 4 years. And I work on set-top boxes, so most people also have a TV at their desk, too (which are always LCDs for size and power usage considerations). That's, say a sample of ~500, at 100% LCD use. I would bet if I asked all of those people if they still use a CRT with their computer at home (probably 1/2 of them only have laptops these days anyway, which I'm guessing are not CRT-based) that at MOST 5% still do. Business use (and power consumption) of computers dwarfs home use these days, anyway, and few companies keep 10 year old CRTs when LCDs are cheap and provide huge power and desktop space savings - which is why this article is really stupid in the first place.
Are there still CRTs in use? Sure. Can we safely say LCDs have are now in the vast majority? OBVIOUSLY.
Exactly! In the end, how many people care about great cellular and DSL coverage in North Dakota? According to the previous poster, about 3 per sq km :)
I just want better than 3Mbps DSL and usable cellular coverage from AT&T that actually works in my home and office in the middle of the SF Bay Area! (I live 3 miles from Google's HQ, and work 3 miles from Intel's HQ - if I can't get reasonable service here what hope does North Dakota have?
I was really hoping for 128 GB solid state to come out with IDE connectors. That would allow one final replacement, good until the computer is truly an antique.
Ok, then I completely change my post. If you are willing to buy a 128GB SSD (which will debut at a good $2+ I imagine) then - once your PATA HDD dies - BUY A NEW SATA MOTHERBOARD. And before you complain that your perfect tiny mobo is PATA only - I don't care. You want to spend that money, you can track down a PATA IDE drive for many years to come.
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