I know there is no security without physical security but normally you can't dump all physical memory from a running system without a kernel level or hardware hack.
Stop right there. You know that, yet you blast Firewire for a perceived lack of security anyway.
"Better to stay silent and have them think you a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubts."
1. You're wrong about number one. Low-end consumer camcorders use firewire almost exclusively for connecting with Macs. Most USB drivers are Windows-only, and don't offer the resolution of the Firewire interface. So much for iMovie!
You also neglected to mention Firewire target mode, very convenient when cloning a disk on Mac.
Also, digital cable boxes are mandated to have Firewire ports. If anything, Firewire is becoming more popular, not less.
This is still an issue. If you want to play a game at your friend's house, you won't be able to just grab the disc and go.
Instead, you have to log out your friend's user ID, log-in your user ID, then navigate through menus, the twiddle your thumbs waiting for a download that could take an hour or more...assuming he has the hard drive space for it. Then when you're done, he has to disable your user ID and re-authorize to play his games. That is too complicated for the average user.
It took me 7 hours to re-download my Rock Band stuff, and I had to click on each track separately, rather than redownload as a group.
And that was for maybe 2 Gigs of content. In the future, if/when games are all delivered digitally, you've got to assume that most every game is 10+GB and you've got to download it. You also might have to deal with traffic quotas from your ISP. Also, when your internal hard drive fills up with games, YOU foot the bill for adding more storage space, which should be significantly more expensive than a $20 memory card which was necessary on consoles past.
And I'm glad that the phone people are civil and knowledgeable in your friends' case. However, if all games are digital delivery only, there will probably be a lot more calls, and you can expect hold times to rise and civility to drop accordingly.
All in all, having games on removable media is a much better deal for the consumer, and I'd like to see it remain that way, but I'm not hopeful for the future.
Unfortunately, I think this is the future of gaming. The next game consoles might not even have optical drives. You won't be able to loan a game to a friend, or rent a game from Blockbuster. And good luck reselling games that you bought over the Internet! Gamestop and others might go out of business. When your hard drive fails, you'll spend days re-downloading content (if you're lucky). If not, you'll be branded as a thief and have to spend hours arguing on the phone with Indian tech support for the right to re-download stuff you already paid for.
The Internet has done a lot of great things for gaming, but I am really scared of what will happen if console manufacturers get rid of removable media for games.
Well, that's a very interesting question. I once had the pleasure of making the acquaintenance of a man who was very good at making kinetic sculptures. He was a patrician named Aquilius and he lived east of the Appian Way. This Aquilius had a stable of hardy Thracian slaves he employed to turn the necessary gears and mechanical what-have-you's to make the statues move. He had a particularly striking model of Venus cast in bronze, which could move her thighs in a most...injudicious manner. Ribald!
So, tell your brother to start with some Thracian slaves, I believe you can get them from the market in Ravenna or Florence. Lombards will do in a pinch, but they are of notoriously foul temper, so I would avoid them if possible.
Nice guys, they're very persuasive in person. Vitaly is loud, boisterous, always wants to have a good time. He wears fine suits and a lot of gold. Vlade is quieter, and he seems to have some sort of brooding intensity. He was always wearing track suits and listening to Run-DMC.
I honestly believed that these were best guys for transporting my adult novelties across state lines. This can be illegal in some jurisdictions (like Texas) and you need someone who knows how to run an illegal business. Since they are Russian, I knew they could handle it.
They kept telling me that the merchadise was seized at the Texas border by Davy Crockett and Ed Meese, and I believed them for a long time. Finally, after the 3rd shipment I started to suspect something. All of a sudden, the phone stopped ringing. Those Russians had played me for a fool!
That's when I knew I had to become a symbol. A creature of the night, to frighten away criminal scum like these Russians. I prayed to Jesus, and he transformed me into...the Bat-Man!
Of course, the students are the ones who end up paying. Basically, what they do is remove the option of choice from the students and raise their bill. It makes things easier for IT, and I'm sure it helps to market the school.
Is it better for the students' education? That's very doubtful. In these days of sophisticated web applications, there is no good reason to be tied to a particular platform. This will inevitably lead to scalability issues.
Did you know? First century Roman plumbing was actually...surprisingly efficient!
Those Romans brought it to your uncivilized land of drunken fog-priests, and you insult them like that. And I thought British people had a heightened sense of shame!
No wait, one day James Blunt may stop in on a tour and catch you humming "Beautiful" and slap you with a lawsuit for posting a Youtube of you singing it to your girlfriend.
I can guarantee you that will never happen. "Never Gonna Give You Up," sure. I'd rather dry-shave my balls with a dull razor than listen to James Blunt.
Also, I don't bundle the fries anymore, I got promoted to manager. That's why I can post to Slashdot all day without worry. Plus, I get all the Hi-C Orange I can drink without paying a cent! And since the financial crisis is on, more and more people are eating at McDonald's. I don't have to worry about job security. Suck on that one, bro! Anyway, I'm off to smoke dope in the walk-in with my counter guy Jesus. He always has the best shit. Enjoy your layoff!
At first glance, it seems like a strange thing to focus on. Boot time? But after you ruminate on it for awhile, you realize that people just assume a long boot time (especially Mac users-LOL).
Obviously, it shouldn't be something that takes top priority, like support for 3D accelerated graphics cards, but it is something that can enhance everyday use for everyday users! Now, if only they could get the keyboard numpad and the phone numpad to face the same direction!
I see that the Evolutionists have mod points today. But tell me something, if evolution is real, how come we don't see fish crawling out of the ocean and walking?
This is the problem with evolution, which states that things progress from order to chaos. Yet Evolutionists state that evolution refines and complicates as it works. These admirable scientists will bring the light of Jesus to these sophisticated portable devices, and reveal evolution as a sham.
The submitted article contains a subtle dig at Barack Obama, implying that he is unsuitable for the executive office because a primitive version of Google's PageRank algorithm only had 771 results.
I wonder how many results that same algorithm had for Theodore Roosevelt, 7 years before he became President? Few predicted his meteoric rise!
Marxist dogmatists don't understand The girl you're with is into Ayn Rand She's searched the free market And she's found what she likes And now you're gonna see what holds up her dress!
Because your liberal philosophy is getting you laid tonight! (ALL RIGHT!) She'll lay you for your laissez faire And next morning, she'll still be there! The market has spoken, your cherry's getting broken (TONIGHT! TONIGHT!) (Guitar solo!)
Well, I guess it's a good thing you didn't buy a digital camera that had a flash disk full of classified information, isn't it?
I think you should cheer up! Now sing along!
You're gonna go to that store and buy a backup disk! YEAH! You're gonna get over your ex and score with a hottie real quick! ALL RIGHT! And if the government man wants to take your flash drive, tell him that it's all right! Cause you've got a backup drive and a hot chick tonight! (GUITAR SOLO!)
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I know there is no security without physical security but normally you can't dump all physical memory from a running system without a kernel level or hardware hack.
Stop right there. You know that, yet you blast Firewire for a perceived lack of security anyway.
"Better to stay silent and have them think you a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubts."
Firewire is evolved from SCSI, I believe they have the same signaling protocol.
1. You're wrong about number one. Low-end consumer camcorders use firewire almost exclusively for connecting with Macs. Most USB drivers are Windows-only, and don't offer the resolution of the Firewire interface. So much for iMovie!
You also neglected to mention Firewire target mode, very convenient when cloning a disk on Mac.
Also, digital cable boxes are mandated to have Firewire ports. If anything, Firewire is becoming more popular, not less.
This is still an issue. If you want to play a game at your friend's house, you won't be able to just grab the disc and go.
Instead, you have to log out your friend's user ID, log-in your user ID, then navigate through menus, the twiddle your thumbs waiting for a download that could take an hour or more...assuming he has the hard drive space for it. Then when you're done, he has to disable your user ID and re-authorize to play his games. That is too complicated for the average user.
It took me 7 hours to re-download my Rock Band stuff, and I had to click on each track separately, rather than redownload as a group.
And that was for maybe 2 Gigs of content. In the future, if/when games are all delivered digitally, you've got to assume that most every game is 10+GB and you've got to download it. You also might have to deal with traffic quotas from your ISP. Also, when your internal hard drive fills up with games, YOU foot the bill for adding more storage space, which should be significantly more expensive than a $20 memory card which was necessary on consoles past.
And I'm glad that the phone people are civil and knowledgeable in your friends' case. However, if all games are digital delivery only, there will probably be a lot more calls, and you can expect hold times to rise and civility to drop accordingly.
All in all, having games on removable media is a much better deal for the consumer, and I'd like to see it remain that way, but I'm not hopeful for the future.
Unfortunately, I think this is the future of gaming. The next game consoles might not even have optical drives. You won't be able to loan a game to a friend, or rent a game from Blockbuster. And good luck reselling games that you bought over the Internet! Gamestop and others might go out of business. When your hard drive fails, you'll spend days re-downloading content (if you're lucky). If not, you'll be branded as a thief and have to spend hours arguing on the phone with Indian tech support for the right to re-download stuff you already paid for.
The Internet has done a lot of great things for gaming, but I am really scared of what will happen if console manufacturers get rid of removable media for games.
I don't mean to sound cynical, but this calculation seems about as contrived as the RIAA's "billions lost to piracy" numbers. $11 billion?
Also, if that's all it cost, why hasn't Microsoft made Linux yet?
Well, that's a very interesting question. I once had the pleasure of making the acquaintenance of a man who was very good at making kinetic sculptures. He was a patrician named Aquilius and he lived east of the Appian Way. This Aquilius had a stable of hardy Thracian slaves he employed to turn the necessary gears and mechanical what-have-you's to make the statues move. He had a particularly striking model of Venus cast in bronze, which could move her thighs in a most...injudicious manner. Ribald!
So, tell your brother to start with some Thracian slaves, I believe you can get them from the market in Ravenna or Florence. Lombards will do in a pinch, but they are of notoriously foul temper, so I would avoid them if possible.
What, do you think I'm making this up? Or maybe you're criminal Russian scum trying to snuff this story, too! All I can say is...beware the Bat-Man!
Nice guys, they're very persuasive in person. Vitaly is loud, boisterous, always wants to have a good time. He wears fine suits and a lot of gold. Vlade is quieter, and he seems to have some sort of brooding intensity. He was always wearing track suits and listening to Run-DMC.
I honestly believed that these were best guys for transporting my adult novelties across state lines. This can be illegal in some jurisdictions (like Texas) and you need someone who knows how to run an illegal business. Since they are Russian, I knew they could handle it.
They kept telling me that the merchadise was seized at the Texas border by Davy Crockett and Ed Meese, and I believed them for a long time. Finally, after the 3rd shipment I started to suspect something. All of a sudden, the phone stopped ringing. Those Russians had played me for a fool!
That's when I knew I had to become a symbol. A creature of the night, to frighten away criminal scum like these Russians. I prayed to Jesus, and he transformed me into...the Bat-Man!
Did you know that Brazil nuts are radioactive? And so is granite! There's radiation everywhere! Luckily, I have a hat.
Of course, the students are the ones who end up paying. Basically, what they do is remove the option of choice from the students and raise their bill. It makes things easier for IT, and I'm sure it helps to market the school.
Is it better for the students' education? That's very doubtful. In these days of sophisticated web applications, there is no good reason to be tied to a particular platform. This will inevitably lead to scalability issues.
Help out? Why, I'd love to!
Jesus is coming...in his magic spaceship. Holy Lord will unleasher...rivers of blood will melt..aAAAAGgGH AAGGGH MY FACE! STAY AWAY FROM MY FACE! ...
Hey mister, ya got 50 cents for bus fare?
Not only am I an exhibitionist, I'm also unbelievably ugly! You won't be 'clickjacking' to my warped, drooling countenance!
Did you know? First century Roman plumbing was actually...surprisingly efficient!
Those Romans brought it to your uncivilized land of drunken fog-priests, and you insult them like that. And I thought British people had a heightened sense of shame!
No wait, one day James Blunt may stop in on a tour and catch you humming "Beautiful" and slap you with a lawsuit for posting a Youtube of you singing it to your girlfriend.
I can guarantee you that will never happen. "Never Gonna Give You Up," sure. I'd rather dry-shave my balls with a dull razor than listen to James Blunt.
Also, I don't bundle the fries anymore, I got promoted to manager. That's why I can post to Slashdot all day without worry. Plus, I get all the Hi-C Orange I can drink without paying a cent! And since the financial crisis is on, more and more people are eating at McDonald's. I don't have to worry about job security. Suck on that one, bro! Anyway, I'm off to smoke dope in the walk-in with my counter guy Jesus. He always has the best shit. Enjoy your layoff!
Should I try it from my mobile phone?
At first glance, it seems like a strange thing to focus on. Boot time? But after you ruminate on it for awhile, you realize that people just assume a long boot time (especially Mac users-LOL).
Obviously, it shouldn't be something that takes top priority, like support for 3D accelerated graphics cards, but it is something that can enhance everyday use for everyday users! Now, if only they could get the keyboard numpad and the phone numpad to face the same direction!
I see that the Evolutionists have mod points today. But tell me something, if evolution is real, how come we don't see fish crawling out of the ocean and walking?
This is the problem with evolution, which states that things progress from order to chaos. Yet Evolutionists state that evolution refines and complicates as it works. These admirable scientists will bring the light of Jesus to these sophisticated portable devices, and reveal evolution as a sham.
The submitted article contains a subtle dig at Barack Obama, implying that he is unsuitable for the executive office because a primitive version of Google's PageRank algorithm only had 771 results.
I wonder how many results that same algorithm had for Theodore Roosevelt, 7 years before he became President? Few predicted his meteoric rise!
Boss: Okay guys, we have to come up with some better ideas for this new MMO.
Producer 1: I think we should go for the most realistic historical surroundings!
Producer 2: That's boring! How about a cartoon fantasy world?
Four hours later
Boss: You still haven't made a decision.
Producer 1: Oh yeah we have. We're gonna do both!
Boss (disheartened): Both?
Producer 2: Yeah! It'll be a completely open world, totally unfocused! A sandbox! The user makes the choices!
Producer 1: With open-endedness! And it'll be like...so, meta-
Boss: Oh, for fuck's sake. Just throw in a bunch of crap stolen from BladeRunner and call it 'cyberpunk', then it will sell.
Producer 1: You're the boss!
No, but I had some strong-ass coffee this morning, does that count?
Don't worry operagost, because
Marxist dogmatists don't understand
The girl you're with is into Ayn Rand
She's searched the free market
And she's found what she likes
And now you're gonna see what holds up her dress!
Because your liberal philosophy is getting you laid tonight! (ALL RIGHT!)
She'll lay you for your laissez faire
And next morning, she'll still be there!
The market has spoken, your cherry's getting broken (TONIGHT! TONIGHT!)
(Guitar solo!)
Well, I guess it's a good thing you didn't buy a digital camera that had a flash disk full of classified information, isn't it?
I think you should cheer up! Now sing along!
You're gonna go to that store and buy a backup disk! YEAH!
You're gonna get over your ex and score with a hottie real quick! ALL RIGHT!
And if the government man wants to take your flash drive, tell him that it's all right!
Cause you've got a backup drive and a hot chick tonight! (GUITAR SOLO!)