True that. Though I seem to recall that you can actually finish GTA games with a minimum of theft/violence. You know those cars parked out front of your home base. Ya take a hint. So the store analogy isn't quite correct.
I think part of the fun is how cartoonish the game really is. Like the splut sound people made in GTA1/GTA2 when you run them over.
I'd love to see Sony sue the law firm that brought this forward just to shutup any potential copycat lawsuits in the future. It's high time some legal justice made it's way through all the bullshit lawsuits.
Unlike MS Word, yahoo provides a service I actually want and can't reasonably get elsewhere [re: my boss uses YM to give me work].
Personally it wouldn't bother me in the least to see a small reasonably compact ad in the chat window if that "pays yahoo" for their servers. I dunno why/. considers this news. Doesn't/. sell subscriptions to it's own site? Duh. Hypocrites!
Except yahoo doesn't sell client like MS sells word.
Yahoo is interested in advertiser revenue and such. I really doubt they make a heck of a lot of money by giving away email accounts and letting *millions* of people play games off their servers.
What they are interested in is having as many ads plastered all over the screen as possible.
This "security BS" that they are pulling [funny that both ym and msn do the same] is just a ploy to get people to use YM from yahoo so you have to see the ads.
The problem is yahoo [like msft] doesn't really have good YM support in non-windows platforms. Heck even in windows I use gaim over ym.
They could careless for giving out the client for free. Provided their precious ads are displayed.
A responsible way to handle this is to sit down with the yahoo guys and say "stop being an ass and we will put ad support in chat windows that use your servers."
That's not a really good comparison. Yahoo isn't selling the free client [they do have a "secure" commercial client btw].
A valid comparison would be if OpenOffice only import/exports MS Office files. That would perpetuate the MS dominance on platforms they don't develop on.
And Yahoo [et al.] don't support gaim/trillian in terms of development. They just let the clients connect to the networks...
This is also why parents are totally willing to waste oodles of money on less-essential things [like road-yachts, mansions, swiffers, etc] but when it comes to a 30$ english book they're all flabberghasted.
Personally it wouldn't have bothered me so much if in English I had to buy my own novel to help subsidize the school. Now math/science texts is another problem. Though from what I recall science textbooks rarely were out of supply because students [specially in the advanced stream] took better care of them [re: didn't want to shell out the 140$ for the book if they broke it]. Whereas in classes like English students didn't care much for the 30$ Hamlet paperbacks and they were often in really shitty condition.
The point is that I agree with your assessment. If students took better care of their free supplies, school boards didn't squander money on "fun" things like sports and rallies and people like Bush didn't allocate more money for war than school people might actually learn something during the 12 years of schooling they get.
You make a library which is properly refactored [e.g. modular design not all one object unit] and while the lib may be a couple MB if you only use certain functions you win.
For instance [cheap plug]. LibTomCrypt will build to about 267KB or so with GCC 3.2.3 on an x86 but if you only need AES and SHA-1 or whatnot then your application only goes by 10KB or so.
Similarly glibc is 2.6MB on my gentoo box but when I write a simple hello-world application it's a mere couple KB...
You'd be surprised but there are many people that dislike the "run-of-the-mill" disney movie. Though then again they are supposed to be movies for kids.
Personally I like quite a few of their movies "the first time". The "let's rehash an idea to death" move gets tiring quickly [like there are what, 8 aladdin movies now?]
true that. Well they could shield it so things like house magnets won't kill it. Though if you have a 100 amp magnet sitting around for "fun" you may wind up killing it:-)
I still think it would be cool to have a 20G drive made up of MRAM [even if it were clocked down to achieve say 100Mbit/sec].... hmm drool....
It's impossible to secure satelite reliably. The problem is they beam the *same* data to many people which means it cannot be encrypted for a single person.
Think of a coax cable as your own personal encrypted channel. To "hack into" coax cable you have to physically splice the cable [without your neighbour noticing] and voila.
With satelite you can passively attack it with nobody noticing.
The only method to secure satelite is if you change keys often [every 30 to 60 minutes]. You make it so the user has to login to get a new key and you make it so only valid customers can download a key [once or twice]. However, this requires an upstream communication medium... not really useful considering the target audience of satelite people...
With digital cable I'm rather certain they do key negotiation every couple of minutes or whatnot since it's easy and will stop cloning [hopefully].
Anywyas, I'm not saying that cloning satelite TV cards is "right". I'm just saying the business model is flawed.
ram for storage [like a harddisk replacement] and temp ram [e.g. for running apps] have conflicting goals.
ram for storage has to be small and compact [hence can't be super fast]. Whereas ram for running stuff has to be super fast [SRAM the better].
I'd rather see super-dense ram on a 64-bit bus running at 32Mhz or so for the purposes of a disk replacement than a box crammed full of DDR 400 sticks [which would cost 100x more]. Cuz honestly disk activity rarely warrants GB/sec speeds [whereas temp memory would].
Tom
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See what I don't get is why can they flash the memory after a successfull boot to disk. Then the next time you boot you read the 50 or so MB off disk [which would take all of 10 seconds max] and boom start executing [like a resume-from-ram thingy]
Why the need to load/parse all the startup scripts over and over for each boot when they should all be the same....
and yes, I'm filing for a patent on this idea. [NOT!]
Tom
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I don't think the field is that big.
Besides any conductor with a current generates a magnetic field.... [well there are probably exceptions... I'm not an EE or PHYS dude].
I think the MRAM guys are talking way small scale here:-)
Once you compromise your fingerprints *once* you can *never* use them again. Passwords at least can be changed.
Though something I've been saying for ages is you should store 32 random bytes on a magstrip and use that as a "password". That way you don't get people at DoD who use "fluffyDoG" as a password that controls a nuculear [simp!] missle silo or something...
Oh you know I still loves ya. I'm just worried that all the time you spend bad mouthing what me and bubba does will gets in the way of yours edumication!
It's a form of substitution. That is when you force your kid to practice hockey day and night and he fails grade 5 math but can score 3 goals a game you are living vicariously through your kid.
From the kdict program...
"Performed of suffered in the place of another"
The kid suffers to satisfy a sick need of the parent. They typically establish their position through their childrens achievements. E.g. "my little johny can sure cross-check good, look at the blood!
I went to public school with a bunch of middle-class folk. We didn't "bribe" our grade one teacher.
And anyways you don't think vicarious parents won't just burn down the computer lab when little-johny gets an F on his grade 11 English thesis of why blue is neat?
While I generally agree with the "little-johny" syndrom parents adopt there are genuine cases where the teacher really didn't put the effort into marking.
When I was in my OAC English [in ontario we had a grade 13 which was "academic" e.g. university level] my teacher used to mark papers at a bar. It was nothing to have a beer ring on a paper. Not that she was a bad teacher just not really super great at marking.
Still why should little johny have to rig his papers so a machine likes them when we pay the teachers not the computers...
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True that. Though I seem to recall that you can actually finish GTA games with a minimum of theft/violence. You know those cars parked out front of your home base. Ya take a hint. So the store analogy isn't quite correct.
I think part of the fun is how cartoonish the game really is. Like the splut sound people made in GTA1/GTA2 when you run them over.
I'd love to see Sony sue the law firm that brought this forward just to shutup any potential copycat lawsuits in the future. It's high time some legal justice made it's way through all the bullshit lawsuits.
Tom
And what is so wrong with this?
/. considers this news. Doesn't /. sell subscriptions to it's own site? Duh. Hypocrites!
Unlike MS Word, yahoo provides a service I actually want and can't reasonably get elsewhere [re: my boss uses YM to give me work].
Personally it wouldn't bother me in the least to see a small reasonably compact ad in the chat window if that "pays yahoo" for their servers. I dunno why
Tom
Except yahoo doesn't sell client like MS sells word.
Yahoo is interested in advertiser revenue and such. I really doubt they make a heck of a lot of money by giving away email accounts and letting *millions* of people play games off their servers.
What they are interested in is having as many ads plastered all over the screen as possible.
This "security BS" that they are pulling [funny that both ym and msn do the same] is just a ploy to get people to use YM from yahoo so you have to see the ads.
The problem is yahoo [like msft] doesn't really have good YM support in non-windows platforms. Heck even in windows I use gaim over ym.
They could careless for giving out the client for free. Provided their precious ads are displayed.
A responsible way to handle this is to sit down with the yahoo guys and say "stop being an ass and we will put ad support in chat windows that use your servers."
Of course that won't happen....
Tom
That's not a really good comparison. Yahoo isn't selling the free client [they do have a "secure" commercial client btw].
A valid comparison would be if OpenOffice only import/exports MS Office files. That would perpetuate the MS dominance on platforms they don't develop on.
And Yahoo [et al.] don't support gaim/trillian in terms of development. They just let the clients connect to the networks...
Tom
No shit.
This is also why parents are totally willing to waste oodles of money on less-essential things [like road-yachts, mansions, swiffers, etc] but when it comes to a 30$ english book they're all flabberghasted.
Personally it wouldn't have bothered me so much if in English I had to buy my own novel to help subsidize the school. Now math/science texts is another problem. Though from what I recall science textbooks rarely were out of supply because students [specially in the advanced stream] took better care of them [re: didn't want to shell out the 140$ for the book if they broke it]. Whereas in classes like English students didn't care much for the 30$ Hamlet paperbacks and they were often in really shitty condition.
The point is that I agree with your assessment. If students took better care of their free supplies, school boards didn't squander money on "fun" things like sports and rallies and people like Bush didn't allocate more money for war than school people might actually learn something during the 12 years of schooling they get.
Tom
This is what libraries for.
You make a library which is properly refactored [e.g. modular design not all one object unit] and while the lib may be a couple MB if you only use certain functions you win.
For instance [cheap plug]. LibTomCrypt will build to about 267KB or so with GCC 3.2.3 on an x86 but if you only need AES and SHA-1 or whatnot then your application only goes by 10KB or so.
Similarly glibc is 2.6MB on my gentoo box but when I write a simple hello-world application it's a mere couple KB...
Libraries!!! Organized Modular Code! LOMC!
Tom
You'd be surprised but there are many people that dislike the "run-of-the-mill" disney movie. Though then again they are supposed to be movies for kids.
Personally I like quite a few of their movies "the first time". The "let's rehash an idea to death" move gets tiring quickly [like there are what, 8 aladdin movies now?]
Tom
Part of the problem is getting the patent in the first place.
Sure they may only sue MSFT this time but what happens next time someone invents a totally obvious idea and patents it?
Next thing you know the linux kernel is being pulled off the web, GCC dismantled and tuxracer destroyed!
Tom
Maybe I was thinking of shut the hell up?
Oh sorry I was thinking of ohms not amps...
Tom
See
:-)
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/anderson96two.html
Get a new name people
I suggest
"BRUNO THE CIRCUS BEAR" which is suitable for the frenzy that surrounds "secure" TCPA style computing...
Tom
true that. Well they could shield it so things like house magnets won't kill it. Though if you have a 100 amp magnet sitting around for "fun" you may wind up killing it :-)
I still think it would be cool to have a 20G drive made up of MRAM [even if it were clocked down to achieve say 100Mbit/sec].... hmm drool....
Tom
It's impossible to secure satelite reliably. The problem is they beam the *same* data to many people which means it cannot be encrypted for a single person.
Think of a coax cable as your own personal encrypted channel. To "hack into" coax cable you have to physically splice the cable [without your neighbour noticing] and voila.
With satelite you can passively attack it with nobody noticing.
The only method to secure satelite is if you change keys often [every 30 to 60 minutes]. You make it so the user has to login to get a new key and you make it so only valid customers can download a key [once or twice]. However, this requires an upstream communication medium... not really useful considering the target audience of satelite people...
With digital cable I'm rather certain they do key negotiation every couple of minutes or whatnot since it's easy and will stop cloning [hopefully].
Anywyas, I'm not saying that cloning satelite TV cards is "right". I'm just saying the business model is flawed.
Tom
It's easy to get peoples fingerprints I imagine in the next fear years real 3d models could be extracted just by touching a railing or wall or such...
biometrics must die! [it won't. Like satelite TV people will push flawed technology to the ends of the earth... sad...]
Tom
ram for storage [like a harddisk replacement] and temp ram [e.g. for running apps] have conflicting goals.
ram for storage has to be small and compact [hence can't be super fast]. Whereas ram for running stuff has to be super fast [SRAM the better].
I'd rather see super-dense ram on a 64-bit bus running at 32Mhz or so for the purposes of a disk replacement than a box crammed full of DDR 400 sticks [which would cost 100x more]. Cuz honestly disk activity rarely warrants GB/sec speeds [whereas temp memory would].
Tom
See what I don't get is why can they flash the memory after a successfull boot to disk. Then the next time you boot you read the 50 or so MB off disk [which would take all of 10 seconds max] and boom start executing [like a resume-from-ram thingy]
Why the need to load/parse all the startup scripts over and over for each boot when they should all be the same....
and yes, I'm filing for a patent on this idea. [NOT!]
Tom
I don't think the field is that big.
:-)
Besides any conductor with a current generates a magnetic field.... [well there are probably exceptions... I'm not an EE or PHYS dude].
I think the MRAM guys are talking way small scale here
tom
How many sets fingerprints do you have?
Once you compromise your fingerprints *once* you can *never* use them again. Passwords at least can be changed.
Though something I've been saying for ages is you should store 32 random bytes on a magstrip and use that as a "password". That way you don't get people at DoD who use "fluffyDoG" as a password that controls a nuculear [simp!] missle silo or something...
Tom
Good....unless prevention causes problems [patriot act!].
Tom
Oh you know I still loves ya. I'm just worried that all the time you spend bad mouthing what me and bubba does will gets in the way of yours edumication!
Learn your abc's sonny!
Tom
What are you in prison or something? My god go get your GED or find anything else to pass your time.
Oh look, boohoo, you hurt my feelings. Look! a tear... oh wait no that's just me laughing.
Tom
It's a form of substitution. That is when you force your kid to practice hockey day and night and he fails grade 5 math but can score 3 goals a game you are living vicariously through your kid.
From the kdict program...
"Performed of suffered in the place of another"
The kid suffers to satisfy a sick need of the parent. They typically establish their position through their childrens achievements. E.g. "my little johny can sure cross-check good, look at the blood!
Tom
oh I remember back in the day I wrote applications for a 16Mhz 32-bit processor with 256KB of ram...... those were the days... sob sob...
oh wait that was a last fucking week... It's called a gameboy advanced....
Tom
What?
I went to public school with a bunch of middle-class folk. We didn't "bribe" our grade one teacher.
And anyways you don't think vicarious parents won't just burn down the computer lab when little-johny gets an F on his grade 11 English thesis of why blue is neat?
Tom
While I generally agree with the "little-johny" syndrom parents adopt there are genuine cases where the teacher really didn't put the effort into marking.
When I was in my OAC English [in ontario we had a grade 13 which was "academic" e.g. university level] my teacher used to mark papers at a bar. It was nothing to have a beer ring on a paper. Not that she was a bad teacher just not really super great at marking.
Still why should little johny have to rig his papers so a machine likes them when we pay the teachers not the computers...
Tom