What were they going to do with the 1000x increase anywho?
Oh yeah, draw better hookers.
I don't think anyone should give game developers anything until they start producing good games. Another performance increase means they start the cycle all over again, spending another couple years writing technology demos (and Super Monkey Ball, which is great).
"Now you can see your player's shadow reflected off the shiny copper roof, reflected realistically on the mysteriously black water rippling below you!"
Speedreading is good for reading things that are more verbose than you'd like.
Most of the things I'm willing to read have a high content/words ratio - my bottleneck in "time-to-comprehension" performance is usually not "how fast can I read". But I suppose it might be if I was into reading the Sunday paper.
Actually, I'm happily married (and well shy of 30).
How do you propose MS should have fought this one? You need to do a lot of preparation in order to have console machines ready for the public - impossible when the conference is already underway.
The problem is, you're still stuck in Junior high. Do you still try to solve all your problems by fighting? Grown up people don't.
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I was really amazed by this movie. It makes no compromises. There is zombies and guns and kicking. And then zombie dogs and lasers and shooting and yelling. After that is running and monsters and sparks and crashes. Well, and Milla.
The pauses for exposition were short, and the movie didn't really have any goals but sustaining tension. It didn't play around trying to set up some victorious climax or crazy plot twist or romance. It just kept with the zombies and the shooting and the "tension building music".
It certainly isn't my favorite movie, but it's certainly something. The thing it reminds me most of is, well, a video game.
If someone took my kid's lunch, I'd be proud of him for having the courage to rat. Obviously you don't want a tattle tale - but MS was just protecting its lunch.
MS is a company that wins by taking every advantage it can get. In this case, it wasn't even illegal... .
You're not really getting it. Maybe it's a good thing for your company to let you surf. But it's certainly not your right.
And it's the company who should get to decide how you can use the Internet while they're paying you.
At our company, we're pretty liberal - we don't care if people go look at Dilbert every morning. But when people spend their whole day playing Bingo, we fire them.
But of course that assumes there's actually value in labor, and that's anathema to the modern capitalist.
Who is this straw man "modern capitalist" you're talking about? Any manager worth his salt knows the value of morale - but they also know the value of getting work done.
A good one can balance the two, and that may require monitoring, blocking, or whatever.
It's not MS's job to police the whole conference, though apparently nobody else was doing that job. And that's typical among conference organizers.
It's frustrating when people get ahead by breaking the rules.
I've seen plenty of conferences where one booth got more attention by breaking the rules (stupid rules or otherwise, doesn't really matter). It's frustrating when you put a lot of time into a good presentation, then lose audience to the booth handing out candy.
You would have handed out candy too, but it was against the rules. It's not fair that they can do it and get away with it. What are rules for if not to be enforced? What the hell do you do?
We shouldn't reward people for breaking rules. People who break rules should lose. MS did a reasonable thing (although it looks like they'll be punished for it).
And you may have said the same thing if things were reversed, but you're in the minority. This story would have been spun as:
-- MS was forced to leave CeBIT after it's booth broke several conference rules. A Sony spokesman said "MS thinks they're so important that they don't have to follow rules. There's rules in place so that a conference like this can run smoothly, and we all do our best to follow them. MS should be no exception."
And if you don't think that's how the/. story would have appeared, you don't really see what/. is about.
For the most part here, the story is "CeBIT has stupid rule".
Sometimes we do tradeshows, and they all have stupid rules ("You can give away this, not that..."). We try to follow the rules, and it's frustrating for our PR people when the booth next to us doesn't (and steals traffic by handing out candy when we only get to hand out pens...)
But the organizers never do anything, because they don't want some immature PR people to pack off their whole show just because they were giving out dweedles instead of doobles. Or because they weren't following the conference theme colors. Or weren't wearing enough clothing.
MS does awful things, but in this case, I'm proud of them for at least standing up. Maybe one day conference organizers will only make rules that they intend people to follow, will distribute those rules, and make sure people do follow them when conference rolls around.
I have no evidence. The source, my bio prof, apparently had worked with the fellow. Either way, good entertainment value - though it would be interesting to find out if it's real. Is there a central resource somewhere on the net? It'd be fun to browse these.
- the name given a fish-gut parasite. Apparently the discoverer was not fond of a colleague named Schmidt.
And we're all familiar with the owl-lice species "Garylarsoni"....
I think not-very-scientific names are common and inevitable. There are only so many descriptive Latin words. And for most of these species, the name is pretty much a sequence number - very few will instantly bring to mind the actual species.
I think "Big Dead Lizard" is a pretty reasonable alternative really.
There is much more to this story than Blizzard wanting to prevent piracy of their product. If that were the case, Blizzard would have worked with the Bnetd people to create some sort of secure interface that would allow the program to validate cd-keys without giving up the precious secret algorithm that creates/validates them.
What happens when people abuse this needfully high bandwidth interface in order to find legitimate CD keys?
Not saying Blizzard did everything right here, just saying that perhaps this isn't a trivial problem.
Definitely - sometimes it's hard to remember the wide disparity between the security needs I have, and the security needs of, say, national defense. Good point.
Perhaps the advice then for someone with truly sensitive data is that lots of these types of attacks are out there. And no matter how secure your data is virtually, you still need fences, guys with guns, and thick walls.
If someone wanted to steal information from our files, they could do so through the internet.
Or they could tell the receptionist they're here to see Bob, and then go look at the paper files. I think it would be easier to do the latter.
But very few would attempt the second kind of attack, because it's hard to say "Oh yeah, I was just checking out security. Just playing." when someone discovers you digging through files on someone else's property.
In the same way, stealing information via CRT flicker requires too much of a physical commitment for it to gain much popularity I think. At least in most cases - it might be different if your office is accross from a competitor's. Even then, seems like it would be easier just to zoom in and watch them type their password.
As time goes on, performance will become a more difficult thing to predict, I think. As AI takes more and more cycles, efficient coding structures for handling complex data will make more and more difference.
I don't write better code in Java than I do in C++ - but perhaps others do.
The problem is, how do you quantify damage? How many OEM's wanted Java, but couldn't do it? How many other companies could have made money if not for the restrictive contracts? Who knows.
But we can fix the future. Somehow prevent MS from making the contracts, make them pay a fine (to taxpayers), and then who cares about what's bundled with Windows - because OEM's can bundle whatever the hell they want with Windows.
What would have happened if Sun had not licensed Java to MS, and had instead been going after the restrictive contracts from the beginning. Perhaps they would have convinced OEM's to include their Java VM with Window's machines.
But I don't think that's likely what would have happened.
You have basically pegged the way patent law actually is in the US. Their claims don't claim "transferring student data via RF", they claim something much narrower, namely their particular method of collecting and reporting student attendance data. Your examples of how it should be are actually the way the system is intended to work. Occasionally overbroad claims are patented, but that is why we have infringement suits and invalidation proceedings--to filter out the bad ones that make it through. If people want a better filter (i.e., better PTO), then give'em more money. Then they can hire PhDs and give them enough time to actually search the art carefully.
Sounds great - us Canadians just assume the US patent office must have dumb rules, as all we hear about are the dumb ones that get through.
I guess it's probably a harder job than we give them credit for, given the breadth of patentable work. Perhaps, as you say, more funding (or perhaps management reform?) is the answer.
I count ECMAScript as part of HTML. Well, it isn't, you're right. But it's a standard part of web browsers that integrates well with HTML.
I've thought about it a bit, and I think you have better points than I give you credit for.
Looking over some of the forms we've done, I agree that something needs to be done. Implementing things in HTML+script is just not that nice - I guess doing it for so long I've forgotten just how bad it is.
I think the web needs a new standard. Hopefully it's text based, open, well integrated with code, and a lot more consistent than HTML. Unfortunately, I don't see anything like that around the corner.
In short, currently I manage with HTML/script, and don't think Flash is the answer for my headaches. But maybe it's better than I think it is.
Anywho, have a good day... been an interesting discussion anyway.
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Good point. Imagine how quick you'd get through Lord of the Rings... But why?
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What were they going to do with the 1000x increase anywho?
Oh yeah, draw better hookers.
I don't think anyone should give game developers anything until they start producing good games. Another performance increase means they start the cycle all over again, spending another couple years writing technology demos (and Super Monkey Ball, which is great).
"Now you can see your player's shadow reflected off the shiny copper roof, reflected realistically on the mysteriously black water rippling below you!"
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Speedreading is good for reading things that are more verbose than you'd like.
Most of the things I'm willing to read have a high content/words ratio - my bottleneck in "time-to-comprehension" performance is usually not "how fast can I read". But I suppose it might be if I was into reading the Sunday paper.
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This article is really nuts.
Half of it sounds like insane, pirate legend.
"This (dark) stuff goes all the way to the bottom," Richardson said
Maybe it has something to do with flesh eating disease? What? Global warming? Overfishing? Sewage? Mothra is awaking? Red tide? Which?
I wouldn't even bother to read this article until someone has gone out there and found out what's happening.
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Actually, I'm happily married (and well shy of 30).
How do you propose MS should have fought this one? You need to do a lot of preparation in order to have console machines ready for the public - impossible when the conference is already underway.
The problem is, you're still stuck in Junior high. Do you still try to solve all your problems by fighting? Grown up people don't.
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I was really amazed by this movie. It makes no compromises. There is zombies and guns and kicking. And then zombie dogs and lasers and shooting and yelling. After that is running and monsters and sparks and crashes. Well, and Milla.
The pauses for exposition were short, and the movie didn't really have any goals but sustaining tension. It didn't play around trying to set up some victorious climax or crazy plot twist or romance. It just kept with the zombies and the shooting and the "tension building music".
It certainly isn't my favorite movie, but it's certainly something. The thing it reminds me most of is, well, a video game.
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If someone took my kid's lunch, I'd be proud of him for having the courage to rat. Obviously you don't want a tattle tale - but MS was just protecting its lunch.
MS is a company that wins by taking every advantage it can get. In this case, it wasn't even illegal...
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I think the discussion went:
"It's a good thing if companies let their employees surf."
I responded:
"It may be good, but a company needs to be able to control it."
And you responded:
"There needs to be balance."
I think we all probably agree for the most part.
Have a good day.
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And it's the company who should get to decide how you can use the Internet while they're paying you.
At our company, we're pretty liberal - we don't care if people go look at Dilbert every morning. But when people spend their whole day playing Bingo, we fire them.
Who is this straw man "modern capitalist" you're talking about? Any manager worth his salt knows the value of morale - but they also know the value of getting work done.
A good one can balance the two, and that may require monitoring, blocking, or whatever.
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It's not MS's job to police the whole conference, though apparently nobody else was doing that job. And that's typical among conference organizers.
/. story would have appeared, you don't really see what /. is about.
It's frustrating when people get ahead by breaking the rules.
I've seen plenty of conferences where one booth got more attention by breaking the rules (stupid rules or otherwise, doesn't really matter). It's frustrating when you put a lot of time into a good presentation, then lose audience to the booth handing out candy.
You would have handed out candy too, but it was against the rules. It's not fair that they can do it and get away with it. What are rules for if not to be enforced? What the hell do you do?
We shouldn't reward people for breaking rules. People who break rules should lose. MS did a reasonable thing (although it looks like they'll be punished for it).
And you may have said the same thing if things were reversed, but you're in the minority. This story would have been spun as:
--
MS was forced to leave CeBIT after it's booth broke several conference rules. A Sony spokesman said "MS thinks they're so important that they don't have to follow rules. There's rules in place so that a conference like this can run smoothly, and we all do our best to follow them. MS should be no exception."
And if you don't think that's how the
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For the most part here, the story is "CeBIT has stupid rule".
Sometimes we do tradeshows, and they all have stupid rules ("You can give away this, not that..."). We try to follow the rules, and it's frustrating for our PR people when the booth next to us doesn't (and steals traffic by handing out candy when we only get to hand out pens...)
But the organizers never do anything, because they don't want some immature PR people to pack off their whole show just because they were giving out dweedles instead of doobles. Or because they weren't following the conference theme colors. Or weren't wearing enough clothing.
MS does awful things, but in this case, I'm proud of them for at least standing up. Maybe one day conference organizers will only make rules that they intend people to follow, will distribute those rules, and make sure people do follow them when conference rolls around.
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I have no evidence. The source, my bio prof, apparently had worked with the fellow. Either way, good entertainment value - though it would be interesting to find out if it's real. Is there a central resource somewhere on the net? It'd be fun to browse these.
Have a good day.
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- the name given a fish-gut parasite. Apparently the discoverer was not fond of a colleague named Schmidt.
And we're all familiar with the owl-lice species "Garylarsoni"....
I think not-very-scientific names are common and inevitable. There are only so many descriptive Latin words. And for most of these species, the name is pretty much a sequence number - very few will instantly bring to mind the actual species.
I think "Big Dead Lizard" is a pretty reasonable alternative really.
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Should have called the portable Java VM "Cupholder".
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There is much more to this story than Blizzard wanting to prevent piracy of their product. If that were the case, Blizzard would have worked with the Bnetd people to create some sort of secure interface that would allow the program to validate cd-keys without giving up the precious secret algorithm that creates/validates them.
What happens when people abuse this needfully high bandwidth interface in order to find legitimate CD keys?
Not saying Blizzard did everything right here, just saying that perhaps this isn't a trivial problem.
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I'm a nerd, and this was news to me.
I thought this was entertaining. Who cares if it matters?
Imagine how "awesome" this thing would be if it had been made by Apple.
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Definitely - sometimes it's hard to remember the wide disparity between the security needs I have, and the security needs of, say, national defense. Good point.
Perhaps the advice then for someone with truly sensitive data is that lots of these types of attacks are out there. And no matter how secure your data is virtually, you still need fences, guys with guns, and thick walls.
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If someone wanted to steal information from our files, they could do so through the internet.
Or they could tell the receptionist they're here to see Bob, and then go look at the paper files. I think it would be easier to do the latter.
But very few would attempt the second kind of attack, because it's hard to say "Oh yeah, I was just checking out security. Just playing." when someone discovers you digging through files on someone else's property.
In the same way, stealing information via CRT flicker requires too much of a physical commitment for it to gain much popularity I think. At least in most cases - it might be different if your office is accross from a competitor's. Even then, seems like it would be easier just to zoom in and watch them type their password.
Interesting article anywho.
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As time goes on, performance will become a more difficult thing to predict, I think. As AI takes more and more cycles, efficient coding structures for handling complex data will make more and more difference.
I don't write better code in Java than I do in C++ - but perhaps others do.
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I wasn't very clear in my post. It's my understanding that OEM's can include the MS VM, but cannot include one from Sun.
Of course, that understanding is the product of rumor, as I don't have access to MS OEM licensing.
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I agree.
The problem is, how do you quantify damage? How many OEM's wanted Java, but couldn't do it? How many other companies could have made money if not for the restrictive contracts? Who knows.
But we can fix the future. Somehow prevent MS from making the contracts, make them pay a fine (to taxpayers), and then who cares about what's bundled with Windows - because OEM's can bundle whatever the hell they want with Windows.
What would have happened if Sun had not licensed Java to MS, and had instead been going after the restrictive contracts from the beginning. Perhaps they would have convinced OEM's to include their Java VM with Window's machines.
But I don't think that's likely what would have happened.
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Sounds great - us Canadians just assume the US patent office must have dumb rules, as all we hear about are the dumb ones that get through.
I guess it's probably a harder job than we give them credit for, given the breadth of patentable work. Perhaps, as you say, more funding (or perhaps management reform?) is the answer.
Thanks.
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I can backup the whole network by videotaping the front panel of our switch.
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I count ECMAScript as part of HTML. Well, it isn't, you're right. But it's a standard part of web browsers that integrates well with HTML.
I've thought about it a bit, and I think you have better points than I give you credit for.
Looking over some of the forms we've done, I agree that something needs to be done. Implementing things in HTML+script is just not that nice - I guess doing it for so long I've forgotten just how bad it is.
I think the web needs a new standard. Hopefully it's text based, open, well integrated with code, and a lot more consistent than HTML. Unfortunately, I don't see anything like that around the corner.
In short, currently I manage with HTML/script, and don't think Flash is the answer for my headaches. But maybe it's better than I think it is.
Anywho, have a good day... been an interesting discussion anyway.
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