No, it doesn't... many of the same types of reports about windows attacks are ALSO due to UNPATCHED machines.
It's the one-eyed, severely slanted nature of the Slashdot readership that: * Microsoft is evil, stupid, moronic, evil, nasty, unsafe, did I mention evil? * Linux is the shining non-denominational grail.
For god sake, there are security vulnerabilities in both people... and they aren't taken advantage of within the *nix world, because... hey, guess what? The majority of users are computer savvy, and know about passwords and firewalls and not leaving ports open etc.
Windows users on the whole have issues programming their VCRs.
As you start to get what you want, which is widespread Linux adoption, you'll start getting more of the VCR no-hopers using Linux, not patching it, not having secure passwords... and GUESS WHAT? Linux will start having major security issues in the same way as Windows does now... not as severe most likely due to better design, but they'll be widespread... there'll be a doozy, and it'll cause all sorts of problems and then people will be "Hey, I thought when we all moved to Linux the world would be a safer place for me and my little children, but now that a vulnerability has allowed my Linux box to be used as a Spam mail distribution point, I feel dirty and scared. I might install XP again."
I think I speak for most people when I say that the reason I failed to get at all excited was:
I just could not understand what the hell they were talking about in the article text. I mean, "analyze the video feed from the console and create a stat database" huh? I don't know what sort of stats you're talking about, and what do you mean by analysing the video feed? Huh?
But now, after admitedly RTFA and your post, I have a greater understanding of what this is all about after reading your post than I do from the original article.
So, that's why it's not getting the attention it would seem to deserve (now that I understand just what they've done, which is pretty darn cool) is a poorly written submission, and a site that doesn't show anything flashy or cool to demonstrate how impressive what they've done is... although the commentaries, although pretty average in the voice department, are pretty cool in the content stakes. See this.
Maybe the editors should have added something to the post to get people to RTFA?
Why do people write these things, just because they've had some experience in a similar field? Suddenly they think that they know better than someone who has been working in the area of speaker cone manufacturing for 20 years.
Have you ever built a speaker cone? Do you know what properties a speaker cone needs? Are they the same as what the body of a guitar needs?
Did your guitar sides need to flex anywhere near the amount these speaker cones need to? No, you needed the timber to be flexible temporarily and then go back to being hard and rigid.
DIFFERENT needs entirely from speaker cones which need to be able to handle being constantly vibrated at all sorts of frequencies.
If you had spent your time building speaker cones from wood using water then fine, maybe your comment would have some weight, but you didn't and you're speaking about something you obviously don't know enough about.
Do you think he never tried water? Do you think that maybe it's not just initial flexibility that is required? Does water make the wood flexible forever?
I would have to say the biggest impediment besides just desktop compatibility is GAMES!
It's the reason I stay with Windows... games are built for it, games run well on it and the selection is ENORMOUS!
Yes, you can emulate windows from within Linux, but at what performance hit? Any hit at all is too much, I don't want my gaming performance to suffer just so I can have the joy of using an operating system that still doesn't quite just 'work' with all the peripherals and programs...
We shouldn't have to pay money to get back functionality in hardware/software that's been taken from us... I bought my a fair while back so I could use it in my media center (geeze, I wish I'd got an ATI instead), and what do I find?
I can't play DVDs on the tv, and I can't get it to display really 'Full screen' in PAL... (OK, now I can display full screen, however with MASSIVE amounts of overscan so I loose functionality by not seeing large chunks of my screen realestate...
I refuse to have to PAY for TVTool just to get this functionality which really should be there in the first place.
Now we're getting excited about seeing pictures of A DVD Drive? Come on people! It looks just like my non burning DVD drive, and come to think of it, quite a lot like my CD drive too... Geeze... this is just silly.
He can spell: "Now Only $67 INITIAL and $12 Per Month Thereafter... Cancell anytime!" He has fantastic grammer: "Please Note: These packages are available seperate." This is funny too: "We Found the Best products & Values then Added even More to it!..." You added even more values? Really? Like how about some damn values like 'morality' and 'honour'...
Granted, legalese is tiresome to wade through and quite often seems to complicate matters just for the sake of it, but this is just plain unprofessional, I mean statements like "Clearly this is not the case or you are not very good at finding publicly available information." Have no place in a legal document surely?
Something more like "It is our belief that there is ample information freely available to the public to back up our stance in this matter." It states the same thing but does so without sounding like a school child. "You're crap you are" is not a sound legal defence surely?
You state that 'A fourth grader wrote this with the help of Clippy. The innuendo is that the writer needs to use a little more variety, and fewer templates...' The innuendo is that you're making an innuendo about our use of the word innuendo within our letter. You need to stop that or else we'll get really angry with you. And moreso we shall imply with strong innuendo that you sir, are a smelly plop head.
This is FUNNY! the letter sent to HardOCP is really, really amusing... it's written as if by a primary school child.
It's basically... "You wrote that we have not shown any real machines yet... you imply that we don't really have any" "You wrote that you haven't seen an office yet... you imply we don't have an office"
It's just paragraph after paragraph of them saying things like that... it reads so very, very badly.
Plus it falls into periods of text which CANNOT have been written by anyone with ANY sort of legal training: "The article inaccurately claims that HardOCP 'Compiled and researched all of the publicay available information we could find.' Clearly this is not the case or you are not very good at finding publicly available information."
Dear god that's terrible... it's so much like "you, you, you're a poopy pants... and, and, my dad says that what you said is wrong... you poopy pants"
So very true. I agree with you totally. Unfortunately in the wider Open Source world, I can't see this happening, as people like to do things on their own from the ground up... then release these packages into the world that are horrendous to use, but are wonderful under the hood.
Your way would be how to make it really work though.
"We blow this stuff off because we want to make it workable for those smart enough to deserve to enjoy it then quickly move on to the Next Great Thing that Needs to be Made Now."
I think you've hit the nail sharply on the head there... the problem with far, far too many nerds is that they are entirely utalitarian... if it works, well, dang it, that's good enough. I've proved I can get that to work, so I'm bored with it now.
There kind of needs to be a whole set of other 'design nerds' who come along after the 'worker nerds' have done their bit, and make it all pretty and sensible to use... these 'design nerds' would have a good understanding of what the 'average Joe' is comfortable with in an interface.
They are supurb, simply the most comfortable chair I've ever worked in... I too worked for a dotcom, and we had Aerons everywhere... they were supurb, so confortable, good on my posture, cool... endlessly adjustable... great things.. great... *sigh*
I didn't have enough money when my company went under to buy mine... and now there aren't really many of those Auctions in Australia any more, so I'm kinda just left wanting.
"A 0.1 BAL limit is appropriate. Sorry, 0.08 is too strict."
Sorry, don't think so. Here in Australia the allowable BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) is 0.05, and that is by no means too strict...
Once, at a nightclub university (college) gathering, there was a competition to see who could blow the closest to 0.01, and I got the closest with.012 or something... I felt quite tipsy really, and hated to think what 5 times that felt like while trying to drive... let alone 10! times.
Why do you feel the need to drink and drive at all really? A drink or two, yes... over a reasonable time... ok... but that's going to get you nowhere near 0.05, let alone.1. Geeze, you're going to be pretty darn smashed at that level and no WAY should you be on the road.
Just think about why you think it's more appropriate to have a higher BAC level.
Dear god what a hideous site that is. Bugger the horrendously ridiculous TOS... how about the fact that their site is one of the most offensive to the eye, horrendous to read, god awful to navigate, and just plain BAD I've ever had the misfortune to view.
If they'd spent just one quarter of the time they'd spent on their TOS on actually designing the site, maybe they'd get people actually viewing the darn place for something other than their ridiculous TOS.
Urrrrgh... I shudder at just how cluttered, ugly and badly laid out that site is...
OK, I want to play this XBox game... let me just unplug the XBox2 here... put it over in the cupboard, and get out the XBox untangle the cords, plug it all in and play my game.
OK... sick of that game now... I want to play that new one I just bought for my XBox2... let me just... etc. etc.
What a royal pain in the arse, and it means I can't really have all the cables hidden like I prefer as I wouldn't be able to easily access them to switch the machines over... how very narrow minded you are. And don't talk to me about signal switch boxes and the like, it still means I have to find somewhere to put two hulking great consoles, with two sets of more-than-likely incompatible controllers and accessories. BAH!
And, like many people... I DON'T HAVE an XBOX 1! And I'm not going to buy and XBox2 unless it comes with an impressive catalogue of games for it on launch... and what's the best way of ensuring that? Make it backwards compatible with the XBox1.
By not having backwards compatibility you have to fork out more money (For the XBox1) and have a HUGE increase in inconvenience in usage just so you can access the games that already exist.
I had no idea those existed... it amazes me that something not unlike a plain old LP record could produce video better than VHS quality... and an hour a side? Impressive.
I went searching around on the site for an example of the video quality, but couldn't find a video clip to download... alas. Although the videos of the caddy loading system were great!
"I walked upstairs, and found the long haired blonde agent and the (admittedly very cute) asian evidence photographer still there, finishing up."
Geeze... you can tell he's a little frustrated... while retelling what would seem to be a harrowing experience, he can't help but mention the attractiveness of the females... the appearence of the males gets no mention, but these two get 'long haired blonde' and 'admittedly very cute asian'.
Hey, how cool is that? I had no idea Damien Conway was that big in the Open Source world! I had him for a computer science subject in University (Monash) and just remember him being a superb teacher, very engaging... but had no idea he was 'famous' in such circles.
"That being said I belive there is an over diagnosis in children"
And this is why, I think, there are so many of the comments you hear... because there are so many 'problem' children who are just labelled as having ADHD to explain disobedience.
My parents were foster parents for many years while I lived with them, and they were often sent the 'problem' children as they were seen to be excellent in handling them. I remember one girl in particular who came to us labelled as having ADHD and a 'handful' and unable to focus or be handled.
Within ONE WEEK my parents had her happily ensconsed reading books, playing with toys etc. for ages at a time with no drugs, no fancy methods... just good old parenting, and a firm hand where required. (I don't mean physically a hand as such, I mean sticking to your ground when you say things like "No, you can't have that" or such things... not giving in to demands etc.)
So very many cases are like this, and it's THOSE cases that cause you the grief... I can't help but have the same feelings about most ADHD diagnosed kids because just so many of them have nothing wrong, it's just a convenient out for parents... which is wrong of me as there are real issues at hand here, but until doctors stop throwing the label about willy nilly, the stigma will remain.
Slashdot Mirror
No, it doesn't... many of the same types of reports about windows attacks are ALSO due to UNPATCHED machines.
It's the one-eyed, severely slanted nature of the Slashdot readership that:
* Microsoft is evil, stupid, moronic, evil, nasty, unsafe, did I mention evil?
* Linux is the shining non-denominational grail.
For god sake, there are security vulnerabilities in both people... and they aren't taken advantage of within the *nix world, because... hey, guess what? The majority of users are computer savvy, and know about passwords and firewalls and not leaving ports open etc.
Windows users on the whole have issues programming their VCRs.
As you start to get what you want, which is widespread Linux adoption, you'll start getting more of the VCR no-hopers using Linux, not patching it, not having secure passwords... and GUESS WHAT? Linux will start having major security issues in the same way as Windows does now... not as severe most likely due to better design, but they'll be widespread... there'll be a doozy, and it'll cause all sorts of problems and then people will be "Hey, I thought when we all moved to Linux the world would be a safer place for me and my little children, but now that a vulnerability has allowed my Linux box to be used as a Spam mail distribution point, I feel dirty and scared. I might install XP again."
Stop being so damn one sided.
I think I speak for most people when I say that the reason I failed to get at all excited was:
I just could not understand what the hell they were talking about in the article text. I mean,
"analyze the video feed from the console and create a stat database"
huh? I don't know what sort of stats you're talking about, and what do you mean by analysing the video feed? Huh?
But now, after admitedly RTFA and your post, I have a greater understanding of what this is all about after reading your post than I do from the original article.
So, that's why it's not getting the attention it would seem to deserve (now that I understand just what they've done, which is pretty darn cool) is a poorly written submission, and a site that doesn't show anything flashy or cool to demonstrate how impressive what they've done is... although the commentaries, although pretty average in the voice department, are pretty cool in the content stakes. See this.
Maybe the editors should have added something to the post to get people to RTFA?
Why do people write these things, just because they've had some experience in a similar field? Suddenly they think that they know better than someone who has been working in the area of speaker cone manufacturing for 20 years.
Have you ever built a speaker cone? Do you know what properties a speaker cone needs? Are they the same as what the body of a guitar needs?
Did your guitar sides need to flex anywhere near the amount these speaker cones need to? No, you needed the timber to be flexible temporarily and then go back to being hard and rigid.
DIFFERENT needs entirely from speaker cones which need to be able to handle being constantly vibrated at all sorts of frequencies.
If you had spent your time building speaker cones from wood using water then fine, maybe your comment would have some weight, but you didn't and you're speaking about something you obviously don't know enough about.
Do you think he never tried water? Do you think that maybe it's not just initial flexibility that is required? Does water make the wood flexible forever?
I would have to say the biggest impediment besides just desktop compatibility is GAMES!
It's the reason I stay with Windows... games are built for it, games run well on it and the selection is ENORMOUS!
Yes, you can emulate windows from within Linux, but at what performance hit? Any hit at all is too much, I don't want my gaming performance to suffer just so I can have the joy of using an operating system that still doesn't quite just 'work' with all the peripherals and programs...
So, that's why I don't move to linux.
We shouldn't have to pay money to get back functionality in hardware/software that's been taken from us... I bought my a fair while back so I could use it in my media center (geeze, I wish I'd got an ATI instead), and what do I find?
I can't play DVDs on the tv, and I can't get it to display really 'Full screen' in PAL... (OK, now I can display full screen, however with MASSIVE amounts of overscan so I loose functionality by not seeing large chunks of my screen realestate...
I refuse to have to PAY for TVTool just to get this functionality which really should be there in the first place.
Now we're getting excited about seeing pictures of A DVD Drive? Come on people! It looks just like my non burning DVD drive, and come to think of it, quite a lot like my CD drive too... Geeze... this is just silly.
He can spell: "Now Only $67 INITIAL and $12 Per Month Thereafter... Cancell anytime!"
He has fantastic grammer: "Please Note: These packages are available seperate."
This is funny too: "We Found the Best products & Values then Added even More to it!..." You added even more values? Really? Like how about some damn values like 'morality' and 'honour'...
What a disgrace.
Nice work... I'd love to see any response you may receive!
Granted, legalese is tiresome to wade through and quite often seems to complicate matters just for the sake of it, but this is just plain unprofessional, I mean statements like "Clearly this is not the case or you are not very good at finding publicly available information." Have no place in a legal document surely?
Something more like "It is our belief that there is ample information freely available to the public to back up our stance in this matter." It states the same thing but does so without sounding like a school child. "You're crap you are" is not a sound legal defence surely?
You state that 'A fourth grader wrote this with the help of Clippy. The innuendo is that the writer needs to use a little more variety, and fewer templates...' The innuendo is that you're making an innuendo about our use of the word innuendo within our letter. You need to stop that or else we'll get really angry with you. And moreso we shall imply with strong innuendo that you sir, are a smelly plop head.
Signed
Infinium lawers
This is FUNNY! the letter sent to HardOCP is really, really amusing... it's written as if by a primary school child.
It's basically... "You wrote that we have not shown any real machines yet... you imply that we don't really have any"
"You wrote that you haven't seen an office yet... you imply we don't have an office"
It's just paragraph after paragraph of them saying things like that... it reads so very, very badly.
Plus it falls into periods of text which CANNOT have been written by anyone with ANY sort of legal training:
"The article inaccurately claims that HardOCP 'Compiled and researched all of the publicay available information we could find.' Clearly this is not the case or you are not very good at finding publicly available information."
Dear god that's terrible... it's so much like "you, you, you're a poopy pants... and, and, my dad says that what you said is wrong... you poopy pants"
I can see why they have not taken this seriously.
... you've slashdotted it!
So very true. I agree with you totally. Unfortunately in the wider Open Source world, I can't see this happening, as people like to do things on their own from the ground up... then release these packages into the world that are horrendous to use, but are wonderful under the hood.
Your way would be how to make it really work though.
"We blow this stuff off because we want to make it workable for those smart enough to deserve to enjoy it then quickly move on to the Next Great Thing that Needs to be Made Now."
I think you've hit the nail sharply on the head there... the problem with far, far too many nerds is that they are entirely utalitarian... if it works, well, dang it, that's good enough. I've proved I can get that to work, so I'm bored with it now.
There kind of needs to be a whole set of other 'design nerds' who come along after the 'worker nerds' have done their bit, and make it all pretty and sensible to use... these 'design nerds' would have a good understanding of what the 'average Joe' is comfortable with in an interface.
Absolutely, I can't believe ANYONE was holding them up as a pinnacle of good design. They truly are horrible.
They are supurb, simply the most comfortable chair I've ever worked in... I too worked for a dotcom, and we had Aerons everywhere... they were supurb, so confortable, good on my posture, cool... endlessly adjustable... great things.. great... *sigh*
I didn't have enough money when my company went under to buy mine... and now there aren't really many of those Auctions in Australia any more, so I'm kinda just left wanting.
"A 0.1 BAL limit is appropriate. Sorry, 0.08 is too strict."
.012 or something... I felt quite tipsy really, and hated to think what 5 times that felt like while trying to drive... let alone 10! times.
.1. Geeze, you're going to be pretty darn smashed at that level and no WAY should you be on the road.
Sorry, don't think so. Here in Australia the allowable BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) is 0.05, and that is by no means too strict...
Once, at a nightclub university (college) gathering, there was a competition to see who could blow the closest to 0.01, and I got the closest with
Why do you feel the need to drink and drive at all really? A drink or two, yes... over a reasonable time... ok... but that's going to get you nowhere near 0.05, let alone
Just think about why you think it's more appropriate to have a higher BAC level.
Dear god what a hideous site that is. Bugger the horrendously ridiculous TOS... how about the fact that their site is one of the most offensive to the eye, horrendous to read, god awful to navigate, and just plain BAD I've ever had the misfortune to view.
If they'd spent just one quarter of the time they'd spent on their TOS on actually designing the site, maybe they'd get people actually viewing the darn place for something other than their ridiculous TOS.
Urrrrgh... I shudder at just how cluttered, ugly and badly laid out that site is...
OK, I want to play this XBox game... let me just unplug the XBox2 here... put it over in the cupboard, and get out the XBox untangle the cords, plug it all in and play my game.
OK... sick of that game now... I want to play that new one I just bought for my XBox2... let me just... etc. etc.
What a royal pain in the arse, and it means I can't really have all the cables hidden like I prefer as I wouldn't be able to easily access them to switch the machines over... how very narrow minded you are. And don't talk to me about signal switch boxes and the like, it still means I have to find somewhere to put two hulking great consoles, with two sets of more-than-likely incompatible controllers and accessories. BAH!
And, like many people... I DON'T HAVE an XBOX 1! And I'm not going to buy and XBox2 unless it comes with an impressive catalogue of games for it on launch... and what's the best way of ensuring that? Make it backwards compatible with the XBox1.
By not having backwards compatibility you have to fork out more money (For the XBox1) and have a HUGE increase in inconvenience in usage just so you can access the games that already exist.
I think the PS3 may be for me...
I had no idea those existed... it amazes me that something not unlike a plain old LP record could produce video better than VHS quality... and an hour a side? Impressive.
I went searching around on the site for an example of the video quality, but couldn't find a video clip to download... alas. Although the videos of the caddy loading system were great!
At least he made the resulting photos pleasing to look at before having them shown to the masses... having plain backgrounds, nice lighting etc.
The ones in this article look quite frankly shite, with bits of apparatus hanging around etc.
Sure, your test shots can have that kind of junk around, but if you want to impress people put up a damn sheet or something people!
"I walked upstairs, and found the long haired blonde agent and the (admittedly very cute) asian evidence photographer still there, finishing up."
Geeze... you can tell he's a little frustrated... while retelling what would seem to be a harrowing experience, he can't help but mention the attractiveness of the females... the appearence of the males gets no mention, but these two get 'long haired blonde' and 'admittedly very cute asian'.
My goodness... they were truly shite. Jolting, hard to make out and long to load (regardless of if they're in the background or not).
Terrible.
Just terrible.
Hey, how cool is that? I had no idea Damien Conway was that big in the Open Source world! I had him for a computer science subject in University (Monash) and just remember him being a superb teacher, very engaging... but had no idea he was 'famous' in such circles.
Yeay!
"That being said I belive there is an over diagnosis in children"
And this is why, I think, there are so many of the comments you hear... because there are so many 'problem' children who are just labelled as having ADHD to explain disobedience.
My parents were foster parents for many years while I lived with them, and they were often sent the 'problem' children as they were seen to be excellent in handling them. I remember one girl in particular who came to us labelled as having ADHD and a 'handful' and unable to focus or be handled.
Within ONE WEEK my parents had her happily ensconsed reading books, playing with toys etc. for ages at a time with no drugs, no fancy methods... just good old parenting, and a firm hand where required. (I don't mean physically a hand as such, I mean sticking to your ground when you say things like "No, you can't have that" or such things... not giving in to demands etc.)
So very many cases are like this, and it's THOSE cases that cause you the grief... I can't help but have the same feelings about most ADHD diagnosed kids because just so many of them have nothing wrong, it's just a convenient out for parents... which is wrong of me as there are real issues at hand here, but until doctors stop throwing the label about willy nilly, the stigma will remain.