I bet the kids at school are also never told that the US knew that Japan was willing to come to surrender terms before the nuclear devices were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki either; they decided to go right ahead and test them out on an almost exclusively civilian population anyway, just to see how much damage they would do...
I doubt we'll be seeing GTV on the PSP, although it is a possibility. After all, the PSP runs on a variant of the Linux Operating System and Android uses a modified version of the Linux kernal. I'm nowhere geeky enough to know how big a difference there is in the system stacks and UIs and how difficult it would make porting GTV onto the PSP - probably not too much at a wild guess, but I'll leave others to thrash out the technical details.
As an aside, QNX is used a lot as a real-time embedded OS in car systems, but also gets used in DVDs and set-top boxes as well, so the knowledge base on how to code Media playing devices on UNIX-like Operating Systems certainly already exists within Sony.
And to think that I actually still had some free time in between playing BomberMan Land Touch and FF XII Revanent Wings on my DS... until your suggestion of Frozen Bubble.
Curses!
That's what I'd like to know. If we can get the average consumer homeowner to get these installed on the rooves of their own houses, it will help contribute towards significantly lowering CO2 emissions. Hell, if it's cheap enough to get most people doing it, maybe the US will actually have a chance of meeting the targets of a climate change agreement for once...
If they need to evacuate, there are sufficient Soyuz escape modules (tried and tested as the standard re-entry module used by Cosmonauts for the last 40+ years with an almost unchanged design) for all of the current crew capacity on the ISS.
Well, I hope so for there sake, or we might have a spaceborn version of what happened to the unfortunate inhabitants of the S.S. Titanic, where passengers vastly outnumbered available spaces on the lifeboats of the supposedly unsinkable ship.
Particularly if you don't inform the caller at the beginning of the call.
According to the Telecommunications Act, it is illegal to record a telephone conversation without the knownledge of all parties involved in the call, which is why you get prerecorded messages at the start of your calls to call centres saying "This call may be recorded, for training and security purposes" or somesuch.
I would think that realtime (or near realtime) voice analaysis still requires the data to be cacked (i.e. saved/recorded) during the analysis process and so is covered under the provisions above. Otherwise anyone can can run a phone tap, effectively.
UK game companies, or more specifically game programmers from the UK, have a long and proud tradition of coding very fine games indeed. At the top of my list of games designers is Julian Gollop, creator of Rebelstar Raiders, Chaos, Laser Squad and the UFO series of games (another one due out soon, IIRC).
The secret of good games design is not in making them pretty, or sound nice, or have wazzy graphics, or new gaming engines, or beautifully rendered FMV sequences - that's all window dressing. The real secret is producing good gameplay; the common denominator between most of the best computer games designers is that they learnt their trade on the likes of Acorns, Commodore 64s, ZX80s & 81s, ZX Spectrums and the like, where available memory (which gets sucked up big time by lush graphics and sound like no-one's business) was scarce to say the least, so the majority of the effort went into making sure than the gameplay kicked ass, took names, was compulsively addictive and generally rocked. That's not to say that turkeys didn't get made either, but with so little memory to go around, such platforms were a lot less forgiving of sloppy programming than current ones are and so gameplay could be wildly affected by how well a game was coded.
If only games would remember this rule more often: gameplay first, everything else second; window dressing is nice if done well, but won't save a game that blows goats.:p
What is the difference between, for example, a software program that has merely Artificial Intelligence progammed into its subroutines, and one that has conciousness as a result of how it is programmed?
Do you think that research and development into A.I. will eventually lead to concious machines or programs, and will that final quantum leap be intentional or incidental?
"short of non-reversable encs like md5 it is basically impossible to protect data if you know the before enc and after enc data on a common packet."
Well, the whole point of asymmetric encryption is that you do use non-reversable encryption methods. Of course, with any encryption system knowing how a frame looks both before and after encryption is a massive bonus for any would-be cracker of encryption codes...
The real problem for most crackers is when they don't have any sort of before and after comparisons to make on packets sent over WEP. In many cases, the fact that it's encrypted will force the majority of potential bandwidth hijackers to go looking for softer, more vulnerable targets to prey on.
Yes, but in 10 years time, the encryption will that much better that knowing your now 10-years-old Private Key will be fsck all use to your would-be hackers now...
I really don't think it ever was a problem. The only people who dowloaded stuff off of Napster when it was up without buying the actual single/album were in the minority. If you enjoyed the artist enough to download their whole back calalogue in MP3 format, you were more than likely to go out and buy at least one or two of that artists releases on CD. As an aside, the music quality of a CD is far superior to that of MP3 format (lossy compression does nasty things to music tracks).
I really think that the music industy is trying to whip up a hurricane in a teacup over this issue.
"...also, companies have credibility... entrust all my corporate data to a package written by x distributed geeks - er, no thanks."
Go tell that all the Fortune 500 companies that use OpenSSL for their encryption, or Apache for their Web Servers, or sendmail, or the GIMP (very commonly used by companies designing CG). Open standards are what the The Internet work - we'd all be screwed if TCP/IP wasn't used in the same way by every node trying to talk to each other...
"Public involvement for the public good" can and does work, as was proven by John Nash's work on Game Theory that earned him a Nobel Prize for his paper on, if I recall corrctly, co-operative endeavour in game thoery.
Whatever happened to the project to build a functioning space gun that could fire a 1 tonne object into low earth orbit for only 2% of a SHuttle Launch?
The only hazard for humans being sent into orbit this way in it was the 200 Gs of acceleration at lift-off...
Junk Mail may end up being much less of a problem in the United Kingdom as it was recently determined that selling information contained within the Electoral Register for an area without the consent of the persons whose information would be transferred would be in violation of the Data Protection Act.
I remember some friends who were all worked in a radar shop in the Navy. Too small a statisitical sample, of course, but one of their complaints was that everyone who worked on that equipment only had girls for children. No boys.
Interesting. Apparently, deep saturation divers have a tendency to only produce girls rather than boys as well. I can (partially) verify this, as my Uncle has one son and four girls. The son was his first child...
"This is the kind of attitude that supports the automatic patching/formatting of code-red infected machines."
I'm sure I remember someone telling me about a specific Worm or Virus (maybe a Torjan Horse, I can't remember - damn my crap memory) that when it entered your system, looked for a specific security hole, extracted the patch for it from its built-in code, patch your security hole for you and then spread itself out across the rest of the Internet...
Hmmm, maybe this could be a way for Microsoft to actually have secure systems all over the world, by patching everyone's buggy, insecure systems with stealth patches while they're not looking?:-)))
I've noticed how sucky this will be for Qwest users. Such gems include:
1) Not being able to keep your own Qwest email address, but having to "transition" (great word that) your address over to MSN Hotmail. Oh, joy!
2) Only being able to transfer over your primary Qwest email address, but "secondary accounts will not be transitioned." But hey, you'll get to "create up to nine e-mail screen names for you and the rest your family" instead of having them "transitioned"...
3) To quote the FAQ "Qwest.net account services will be inaccessible 10 days after you successfully transition your service to MSN Internet Access." That's nice of them isn't it?
4) As icing on the cake, "Since Web Publishing will no longer be available after the 10 day grace period, you should make sure you have a local copy of your Web page(s)." I'm loving MSN more and more as I read through this...
There is something I have to ask of those people who use MSN.
Why do you use it? I'll admit that I use it occasionally, but only in order to keep in contact with friends via MSN messenger (i'm trying to persuade them to get ICQ instead). Given the, shall we say, twtchiness of MSN in the last few weeks, I'll be surprised if the number of people using MSN hasn't plummeted due to the spectacular lack of customer service that they have exhibited in recent, and less recent, times.
Given the inherent problems that have been flagged up with regards to Microsoft and MSN in the last few weeks, months, years and decades, I personally have very little Faith in their much-touted security features (or should that be bugs?) in MSN.
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I bet the kids at school are also never told that the US knew that Japan was willing to come to surrender terms before the nuclear devices were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki either; they decided to go right ahead and test them out on an almost exclusively civilian population anyway, just to see how much damage they would do...
Neptune clearly has hidden depths... ;p
I doubt we'll be seeing GTV on the PSP, although it is a possibility. After all, the PSP runs on a variant of the Linux Operating System and Android uses a modified version of the Linux kernal. I'm nowhere geeky enough to know how big a difference there is in the system stacks and UIs and how difficult it would make porting GTV onto the PSP - probably not too much at a wild guess, but I'll leave others to thrash out the technical details. As an aside, QNX is used a lot as a real-time embedded OS in car systems, but also gets used in DVDs and set-top boxes as well, so the knowledge base on how to code Media playing devices on UNIX-like Operating Systems certainly already exists within Sony.
And to think that I actually still had some free time in between playing BomberMan Land Touch and FF XII Revanent Wings on my DS... until your suggestion of Frozen Bubble. Curses!
That's what I'd like to know. If we can get the average consumer homeowner to get these installed on the rooves of their own houses, it will help contribute towards significantly lowering CO2 emissions. Hell, if it's cheap enough to get most people doing it, maybe the US will actually have a chance of meeting the targets of a climate change agreement for once...
If they need to evacuate, there are sufficient Soyuz escape modules (tried and tested as the standard re-entry module used by Cosmonauts for the last 40+ years with an almost unchanged design) for all of the current crew capacity on the ISS. Well, I hope so for there sake, or we might have a spaceborn version of what happened to the unfortunate inhabitants of the S.S. Titanic, where passengers vastly outnumbered available spaces on the lifeboats of the supposedly unsinkable ship.
...the result of an ill-advised Windows Vista installation or two instead? ;p
Particularly if you don't inform the caller at the beginning of the call. According to the Telecommunications Act, it is illegal to record a telephone conversation without the knownledge of all parties involved in the call, which is why you get prerecorded messages at the start of your calls to call centres saying "This call may be recorded, for training and security purposes" or somesuch. I would think that realtime (or near realtime) voice analaysis still requires the data to be cacked (i.e. saved/recorded) during the analysis process and so is covered under the provisions above. Otherwise anyone can can run a phone tap, effectively.
UK game companies, or more specifically game programmers from the UK, have a long and proud tradition of coding very fine games indeed. At the top of my list of games designers is Julian Gollop, creator of Rebelstar Raiders, Chaos, Laser Squad and the UFO series of games (another one due out soon, IIRC).
The secret of good games design is not in making them pretty, or sound nice, or have wazzy graphics, or new gaming engines, or beautifully rendered FMV sequences - that's all window dressing. The real secret is producing good gameplay; the common denominator between most of the best computer games designers is that they learnt their trade on the likes of Acorns, Commodore 64s, ZX80s & 81s, ZX Spectrums and the like, where available memory (which gets sucked up big time by lush graphics and sound like no-one's business) was scarce to say the least, so the majority of the effort went into making sure than the gameplay kicked ass, took names, was compulsively addictive and generally rocked. That's not to say that turkeys didn't get made either, but with so little memory to go around, such platforms were a lot less forgiving of sloppy programming than current ones are and so gameplay could be wildly affected by how well a game was coded.
If only games would remember this rule more often: gameplay first, everything else second; window dressing is nice if done well, but won't save a game that blows goats. :p
What is the difference between, for example, a software program that has merely Artificial Intelligence progammed into its subroutines, and one that has conciousness as a result of how it is programmed?
Do you think that research and development into A.I. will eventually lead to concious machines or programs, and will that final quantum leap be intentional or incidental?
"the obnoxious ceareal box animations..."
Haven't we already seen this in "Minority Report"?
"short of non-reversable encs like md5 it is basically impossible to protect data if you know the before enc and after enc data on a common packet."
Well, the whole point of asymmetric encryption is that you do use non-reversable encryption methods. Of course, with any encryption system knowing how a frame looks both before and after encryption is a massive bonus for any would-be cracker of encryption codes...
The real problem for most crackers is when they don't have any sort of before and after comparisons to make on packets sent over WEP. In many cases, the fact that it's encrypted will force the majority of potential bandwidth hijackers to go looking for softer, more vulnerable targets to prey on.
Yes, but in 10 years time, the encryption will that much better that knowing your now 10-years-old Private Key will be fsck all use to your would-be hackers now...
I need something that keeps me awake when I'm too busy 133t #@ck1ng to be bothered eating or crinking at all...
I really don't think it ever was a problem. The only people who dowloaded stuff off of Napster when it was up without buying the actual single/album were in the minority. If you enjoyed the artist enough to download their whole back calalogue in MP3 format, you were more than likely to go out and buy at least one or two of that artists releases on CD. As an aside, the music quality of a CD is far superior to that of MP3 format (lossy compression does nasty things to music tracks).
I really think that the music industy is trying to whip up a hurricane in a teacup over this issue.
"...also, companies have credibility... entrust all my corporate data to a package written by x distributed geeks - er, no thanks."
Go tell that all the Fortune 500 companies that use OpenSSL for their encryption, or Apache for their Web Servers, or sendmail, or the GIMP (very commonly used by companies designing CG). Open standards are what the The Internet work - we'd all be screwed if TCP/IP wasn't used in the same way by every node trying to talk to each other...
"Public involvement for the public good" can and does work, as was proven by John Nash's work on Game Theory that earned him a Nobel Prize for his paper on, if I recall corrctly, co-operative endeavour in game thoery.
IANA Mathematician, however..
"Sure, it's better than anything else in the world--but that doesn't mean it's perfect."
What, even Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice-cream? :p
Whatever happened to the project to build a functioning space gun that could fire a 1 tonne object into low earth orbit for only 2% of a SHuttle Launch?
The only hazard for humans being sent into orbit this way in it was the 200 Gs of acceleration at lift-off...
Junk Mail may end up being much less of a problem in the United Kingdom as it was recently determined that selling information contained within the Electoral Register for an area without the consent of the persons whose information would be transferred would be in violation of the Data Protection Act.
Sometimes the Law works in our favour... :-)
I remember some friends who were all worked in a radar shop in the Navy. Too small a statisitical sample, of course, but one of their complaints was that everyone who worked on that equipment only had girls for children. No boys.
Interesting. Apparently, deep saturation divers have a tendency to only produce girls rather than boys as well. I can (partially) verify this, as my Uncle has one son and four girls. The son was his first child...
"This is the kind of attitude that supports the automatic patching/formatting of code-red infected machines."
I'm sure I remember someone telling me about a specific Worm or Virus (maybe a Torjan Horse, I can't remember - damn my crap memory) that when it entered your system, looked for a specific security hole, extracted the patch for it from its built-in code, patch your security hole for you and then spread itself out across the rest of the Internet...
Hmmm, maybe this could be a way for Microsoft to actually have secure systems all over the world, by patching everyone's buggy, insecure systems with stealth patches while they're not looking? :-)))
1) Not being able to keep your own Qwest email address, but having to "transition" (great word that) your address over to MSN Hotmail. Oh, joy!
2) Only being able to transfer over your primary Qwest email address, but "secondary accounts will not be transitioned." But hey, you'll get to "create up to nine e-mail screen names for you and the rest your family" instead of having them "transitioned"...
3) To quote the FAQ "Qwest.net account services will be inaccessible 10 days after you successfully transition your service to MSN Internet Access." That's nice of them isn't it?
4) As icing on the cake, "Since Web Publishing will no longer be available after the 10 day grace period, you should make sure you have a local copy of your Web page(s)." I'm loving MSN more and more as I read through this...
Are We All Having Fun Yet? No, I didn't think so.
Why do you use it? I'll admit that I use it occasionally, but only in order to keep in contact with friends via MSN messenger (i'm trying to persuade them to get ICQ instead). Given the, shall we say, twtchiness of MSN in the last few weeks, I'll be surprised if the number of people using MSN hasn't plummeted due to the spectacular lack of customer service that they have exhibited in recent, and less recent, times.
Given the inherent problems that have been flagged up with regards to Microsoft and MSN in the last few weeks, months, years and decades, I personally have very little Faith in their much-touted security features (or should that be bugs?) in MSN.
"Commingling" does sound rather kinky! :-)
I think I can speak for the majority of posters who will enjoy watching Microshaft getting stuffed...