it sure is. This is actually exactly how the Sony PSP works, and it really stinks for trying to get homemade software to run on it.
The firmware in flash needs to be signed. All programs that run from any source (the cd thingy, the memory stick) also need to be signed. The only way to do anything is when clever people find buffer overflow exploits in that kernel. But that still doesn't allow you to have any permanent (in the flash) solution, since the flash needs to be signed. And that, of course, also has the non-sinister side effect of being really virus proof. Sure a virus could exploit that same buffer overflow we use to boot gamez and stuff on it, but as soon as you reboot its gone until the next time you stumble on its activation method again.
I'd rather have the viruses i reckon. but it sure helps sony stop people from grabbing and running illegal copies of software. I'm glad they totally ruined this device for all tinkerers just to save a few percent shitty game sales.
At Microsoft, I've had access to the source code for Halo 1 & 2, Internet Explorer, MDAC, MSXML, the.NET Frameworks and CLR, SQL Server, SQLXML, Virtual PC, Visual Studio, Windows, the Xbox and Xbox Live, and probably several other projects that I've forgotten about. Does it get better than this?
uhh, yes, it does. Maybe you should visit www.gnu.org.
The only difference is that when *I* look at operating system source code, I don't have to sign non-compete agreements, and I dont have to agree to fund my existance with money gotten from business practices that are greedy, dishonest, and harmful to the marketplace.
While the Santa Clara, Calif., resident has generally been looking for entry-level software jobs with IT vendors, he recently had an interview with a financial firm looking to fill an in-house IT position. That's where his lack of business background was exposed.
...while drugmakers oppose any weakening of patent rights, which they say would chill their investment in new medicines
So, limiting Pfizer's ability to just sit on what it's already made, and profit for doing nothing further, is somehow supposed to _chill_ investment in new medicines? I would think that if you were no longer able to just sit on your patents, it would *enhance* competition and *increase* the need to innovate in order to stay profitable.
OK Ayn Randian Bushites, let me make your argument for you so you dont need to: "But no one is going to want to innovate anything unless they can get patents".
I'm not saying throw out the patent system, just fix it. Even if we cut the lifespan of drug company patents by something _dramatic_, you honestly think Pfizer is just gonna say, "OK, nevermind, we aren't gonna do this anymore." Give me a break.
They choose a technology - an operating system or an application - based on its ability to solve a particular problem and to serve a certain business need, not based on its development model.
Not me! I/could/ choose linux based on the fact that I can stuff my system so full of development tools, compilers, cross compilers, 3d libraries, windowing libraries, that I can't even think straight, all without spending a nickle.
Or, I/could/ choose linux based on the fact that I can simply walk away from the computer when I'm done using it. I dont need to shutdown, in fear of a slow experience when I come back, or in fear of extending my internet-exposure for longer than I have to, filling my computer with spyware.
But no, I choose linux because I look to the FUTURE, you know, BEYOND my next 5 clicks or so. You george bush american's are now very confused arent you? Future?
I dont care if Micro$oft may have a slightly better table-format layout in Office Gizmo 2007. I understand what their software development model gives to the world, and I understand what the open source software development model gives to the world. Academia, you know, the place where all those good ideas come from, has always worked with an open development model. I choose linux because I support their development model, I choose linux because support of that development model is support for a future full of innovation courtesy of our uninhibited access to the our society's collective knowledge.
But Ok, if you really want to, you can pick why I'll never use your crappy product. 1. Its crappy 2. You're development model and business precedent you have sent will stifle general innovation in the world if everyone starts acting like you. I hate you and think that you've done more harm then good!
God, it took until __XP__ for you to finally make it so Freecell couldn't crash my home computer's operating system kernel. Those facilities had been there since the 386. GO AWAY.
Yes, Stallman wants us all to be poor. Thats his point. Good job. You must have been great at those reading comprehension exams.
Its not like the F/OSS model helps clear the patent minefield and limits how much "reinventing the wheel" happens in a software company. Its not like this added efficiency would cause growth in the industry, providing more jobs for all.
But keep towing the party line for those.com billionaires who agree with you.
Media companies have often been caught flat-footed when a video or song takes off online. By the time they try to capitalize on it, the opportunity often has passed.
Umm, think maybe its because there was NO USE FOR THEM?
When all is said and done, our economy, our government, ourselves, we all will have dedicated massive amounts of time and money subsidizing Sony's dead profit model. How come we can do that, but we can't throw amtrack a nickle or two?
take a reality check and think about ways to get more prior art into the patent system and improve the quality.
I think maybe you need the reality check buddy. A biggest problem here is tha ideas that us geniuses dismiss as inconsequential are now finding themselves wrapped in a shiny new patent. So, what, every night, after tinkering with my latest geek proj, should I print out my diff's and get them notorized and mailed to the uspto? I dont think getting art INTO the system will work. You need to change the system so that doesn't matter anymore..
(No, I dont know how. Should I have made it sound like i did though?)
Raise your hand if you are sick of Americans who still dont understand why lawyers who protect *everyone* are a _fundamental_, _critical_ aspect of our free democratic society.
God, imagine it the other way around, where innocent people were denied their day in court because the $#@%$@#% lawyers didn't like their case.
Wow, except that your "argument" somehow completely missed the point of my message, which is that the "good that he has done" is possibly outweighed by the harm he has caused in snatching all that money out of the market, and sticking windows where it doesnt belong. Maybe way more technological achievements could have been made had Windows not been slowing it down, both in taking money and in being a terrible environment to get work done in. Think a little bit about windows ME, versus something like Linux or OS/2. Think about the negative impact of choosing that platform, and multiply it times hundreds of millions.
Obviously there is no way to prove or disprove this, but please, dont IGNORE the fact that despite throwing society a bone, he _may_ still have done more harm then good, when you sum up the effect his life has had on society.
You think that $49B was _generated_ by Billy? No, it was taken from our economy. And maybe if windows was NEVER MARKETED, IN THE SLIGHTEST, then we could say that he added as much to the economy as he got in return. But you know he marketed the heck out of it. He pushed it into places where it didnt belong. And he unfairly killed competition in all sorts of different markets, causing higher prices and less choices for consumers. Therefore, I refuse to worship this man for money that, IMHO, he took unfairly from our economy. I even take the radical opinion that the world would have been better off without Windows. Yet here he is, sitting on fabulous wealth as a result of bringing it to life, and using unfair tactics to edge out other products.
When he has given so much that he has no money left, then maybe he has broken even, morally.
Look, I'd think Slashdotters would be able to see through Gate's crap. In a lot of this humanitarianism (Not the majority of it, I'll give you that) he's just pushing his product onto more desktops.
And in the rest, look where the money is coming from. US. YOU AND ME AND EVERYONE WHO HAS HAD TO PAY GOBS OF MONEY FOR AN OPERATING SYSTEM THAT, ARGUABLY, THE WORLD WOULD BE BETTER OFF WITHOUT.
So until his net assets reach $0, IMHO, he sins aren't yet paid in full.
Well I'm sorry you missed a logical "leap" there (more like a small hop), and even more sorry that you mouthed off about my "debating and logic skills", all infered from 3 or 4 clear sentences. Reread your message, and figure out exactly which family member/girl-who-wouldnt-go-to-prom/coworker/boss it is your are flaming here. Then take your problem up with them, instead of scooping up innocent bystanders. I wouldn't normal give such sweeping life-advice as I'm hardly in a position to, but you lowered the bar enough to let that happen.
I said "He is an idiot for thinking that music being stolen from (some musicians) is about the worst thing that could happen. Especially since the (some musicians) he is talking about are probably sitting at the country club with him."
You said "Is that the country club where he gives free laptops to kids?"
Now THAT doesn't really make sense. What point were you trying to make?
My comment can be summed up as: "These musicians he is talking about are probably already rich, does he really think that if they lose some money from privacy it's the WORST THING IN THE WORLD?"
So when you mentioned the poor kids getting free laptops, you were just being a character witness for the Woz (but that doesn't really have any bearing on anything I said. Very strange method for debating, guy.) But I (jokingly/sarcastically) assumed you're comment actually had some MEANING in context of "a response to my claims about the (some musicians)", and therefore meant "Those (some musicians) he is talking about are poor kids who need free laptops!" It was kind of a joke. Of course thats not what you meant, but it was hard to figure out what you meant.
So do better next time, and stop airing your dirty laundry on slashdot.
Not even if you two are seriouly planning on flying planes into buildings or releasing sarin gas in a subway?
Not even then. Not if they've never done anything suspicious before. The alternative you are suggesting, although you probably dont even realize it, is for all of us to constantly prove our innocence by NOT talking about releasing sarin gas with our buddies. Guilty until proven innocent. Great idea. I'd love to live in that world.
Disk drive heads ride on a blanket of air over the media. With a vacuum, they wouldn't have this air and they'd ruin the media. Thats why they have filtered vent holes.
Some drives even control the ability of the heads to move with a wind-driven interlock mechanism (sort of like the governor on a lawnmower engine), forcing the drives to stay in the proper area when the drive isn't spinning.
After the experiment, the administrators were asked on both sides if this kind of evolution of systems met with their real-world experience. They said yes, with the caveat of if they were asked to install a component that required an upgrade of GLIBC that they would likely upgrade the operating system as long as their configuration control policy allowed it.
Oh OK so the Linux admins thought everything about the test was real-world, except, ummm, the operating system version.
Sounds great. Oh and the study included SIX groups? Wow this just gets better and better.
The thing that scares me is how excellent people are getting at hiding their agendas, even when they are RIGHT OUT IN THE OPEN. Micro$oft-funded linux vs. windows study? Nah, no conflict of interest there, seriously! (and people believe it!) A couple ex energy company executives decide to bomb the country w/ the largest oil reserves? Nah, no conflict of interest there, serious! (and people believe it!) DIEBOLD makes some e-voting machines, their CEO publicly claims he's "Devoted to delivering bush Ohio", and Computer Science PhDs across the globe are horrified at what they see when DIEBOLD's source code is leaked? Nah, no conflict of interest there.
Open your eyes. Someone stop this idiot before he eats our children.
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it sure is. This is actually exactly how the Sony PSP works, and it really stinks for trying to get homemade software to run on it.
The firmware in flash needs to be signed. All programs that run from any source (the cd thingy, the memory stick) also need to be signed. The only way to do anything is when clever people find buffer overflow exploits in that kernel. But that still doesn't allow you to have any permanent (in the flash) solution, since the flash needs to be signed. And that, of course, also has the non-sinister side effect of being really virus proof. Sure a virus could exploit that same buffer overflow we use to boot gamez and stuff on it, but as soon as you reboot its gone until the next time you stumble on its activation method again.
I'd rather have the viruses i reckon. but it sure helps sony stop people from grabbing and running illegal copies of software. I'm glad they totally ruined this device for all tinkerers just to save a few percent shitty game sales.
You are almost right.
/ARE/ servos. And open-loop stepper motors are not.
"servo" just refers to a closed-loop "motor", and "motor" takes electrical energy and turns it into mechanical motion.
Therefore, the "voice coils" of which you speak actually
At Microsoft, I've had access to the source code for Halo 1 & 2, Internet Explorer, MDAC, MSXML, the .NET Frameworks and CLR, SQL Server, SQLXML, Virtual PC, Visual Studio, Windows, the Xbox and Xbox Live, and probably several other projects that I've forgotten about. Does it get better than this?
uhh, yes, it does. Maybe you should visit www.gnu.org.
The only difference is that when *I* look at operating system source code, I don't have to sign non-compete agreements, and I dont have to agree to fund my existance with money gotten from business practices that are greedy, dishonest, and harmful to the marketplace.
And I dont have to live in seattle. zing!!! (j/k)
Yes.
I never enjoy the taste of cold beer, or an icy margarita. I only enjoy alcohol at my local WINE CLUB.
Hey- Do you only have sex WHEN YOUR IN LOVE
hahahahahah
While the Santa Clara, Calif., resident has generally been looking for entry-level software jobs with IT vendors, he recently had an interview with a financial firm looking to fill an in-house IT position. That's where his lack of business background was exposed.
I see. Go hungry, or eat your brain.
Man, I was totally with you until you started talking about how "difficult" mario sunshine was. are you frigging retarded?
...while drugmakers oppose any weakening of patent rights, which they say would chill their investment in new medicines
So, limiting Pfizer's ability to just sit on what it's already made, and profit for doing nothing further, is somehow supposed to _chill_ investment in new medicines? I would think that if you were no longer able to just sit on your patents, it would *enhance* competition and *increase* the need to innovate in order to stay profitable.
OK Ayn Randian Bushites, let me make your argument for you so you dont need to: "But no one is going to want to innovate anything unless they can get patents".
I'm not saying throw out the patent system, just fix it. Even if we cut the lifespan of drug company patents by something _dramatic_, you honestly think Pfizer is just gonna say, "OK, nevermind, we aren't gonna do this anymore." Give me a break.
They choose a technology - an operating system or an application - based on its ability to solve a particular problem and to serve a certain business need, not based on its development model.
/could/ choose linux based on the fact that I can stuff my system so full of development tools, compilers, cross compilers, 3d libraries, windowing libraries, that I can't even think straight, all without spending a nickle.
/could/ choose linux based on the fact that I can simply walk away from the computer when I'm done using it. I dont need to shutdown, in fear of a slow experience when I come back, or in fear of extending my internet-exposure for longer than I have to, filling my computer with spyware.
Not me! I
Or, I
But no, I choose linux because I look to the FUTURE, you know, BEYOND my next 5 clicks or so. You george bush american's are now very confused arent you? Future?
I dont care if Micro$oft may have a slightly better table-format layout in Office Gizmo 2007. I understand what their software development model gives to the world, and I understand what the open source software development model gives to the world. Academia, you know, the place where all those good ideas come from, has always worked with an open development model. I choose linux because I support their development model, I choose linux because support of that development model is support for a future full of innovation courtesy of our uninhibited access to the our society's collective knowledge.
But Ok, if you really want to, you can pick why I'll never use your crappy product.
1. Its crappy
2. You're development model and business precedent you have sent will stifle general innovation in the world if everyone starts acting like you. I hate you and think that you've done more harm then good!
God, it took until __XP__ for you to finally make it so Freecell couldn't crash my home computer's operating system kernel. Those facilities had been there since the 386. GO AWAY.
Yes, Stallman wants us all to be poor. Thats his point. Good job. You must have been great at those reading comprehension exams.
.com billionaires who agree with you.
Its not like the F/OSS model helps clear the patent minefield and limits how much "reinventing the wheel" happens in a software company. Its not like this added efficiency would cause growth in the industry, providing more jobs for all.
But keep towing the party line for those
Media companies have often been caught flat-footed when a video or song takes off online. By the time they try to capitalize on it, the opportunity often has passed.
Umm, think maybe its because there was NO USE FOR THEM?
When all is said and done, our economy, our government, ourselves, we all will have dedicated massive amounts of time and money subsidizing Sony's dead profit model. How come we can do that, but we can't throw amtrack a nickle or two?
take a reality check and think about ways to get more prior art into the patent system and improve the quality.
I think maybe you need the reality check buddy. A biggest problem here is tha ideas that us geniuses dismiss as inconsequential are now finding themselves wrapped in a shiny new patent. So, what, every night, after tinkering with my latest geek proj, should I print out my diff's and get them notorized and mailed to the uspto? I dont think getting art INTO the system will work. You need to change the system so that doesn't matter anymore..
(No, I dont know how. Should I have made it sound like i did though?)
Hey, you're right, and this idea worked so well for the energy industry!
q uality
http://www.enron.com/
And all this sort privitization is helping America's poor working class get such great access to health care!
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhdr03/nhdrsum03.htm#Ine
Listen: Atlas Shrugged is FICTION.
Raise your hand if you are sick of Americans who still dont understand why lawyers who protect *everyone* are a _fundamental_, _critical_ aspect of our free democratic society.
God, imagine it the other way around, where innocent people were denied their day in court because the $#@%$@#% lawyers didn't like their case.
Wow, except that your "argument" somehow completely missed the point of my message, which is that the "good that he has done" is possibly outweighed by the harm he has caused in snatching all that money out of the market, and sticking windows where it doesnt belong. Maybe way more technological achievements could have been made had Windows not been slowing it down, both in taking money and in being a terrible environment to get work done in. Think a little bit about windows ME, versus something like Linux or OS/2. Think about the negative impact of choosing that platform, and multiply it times hundreds of millions.
Obviously there is no way to prove or disprove this, but please, dont IGNORE the fact that despite throwing society a bone, he _may_ still have done more harm then good, when you sum up the effect his life has had on society.
You think that $49B was _generated_ by Billy? No, it was taken from our economy. And maybe if windows was NEVER MARKETED, IN THE SLIGHTEST, then we could say that he added as much to the economy as he got in return. But you know he marketed the heck out of it. He pushed it into places where it didnt belong. And he unfairly killed competition in all sorts of different markets, causing higher prices and less choices for consumers. Therefore, I refuse to worship this man for money that, IMHO, he took unfairly from our economy. I even take the radical opinion that the world would have been better off without Windows. Yet here he is, sitting on fabulous wealth as a result of bringing it to life, and using unfair tactics to edge out other products.
When he has given so much that he has no money left, then maybe he has broken even,
morally.
Look, I'd think Slashdotters would be able to see through Gate's crap. In a lot of this humanitarianism (Not the majority of it, I'll give you that) he's just pushing his product onto more desktops.
And in the rest, look where the money is coming from. US. YOU AND ME AND EVERYONE WHO HAS HAD TO PAY GOBS OF MONEY FOR AN OPERATING SYSTEM THAT, ARGUABLY, THE WORLD WOULD BE BETTER OFF WITHOUT.
So until his net assets reach $0, IMHO, he sins aren't yet paid in full.
...by just stuffing our emails and phone conversations full of Bad Words like bomb/terrorism/bush-daughters-drunken-incest-orgy? ?
:)
Then it won't be effective to continue spying on joe sixpack...
Anyways, I just started it, didn't i? And if you quote me in you're reply, you'll help to!
No, we can't. Quite the optimist, Zonk.
The problem is that within information technology, many users have far too much access and trust than they should truly have.
God I'd hate to live in the world you would create.
Well I'm sorry you missed a logical "leap" there (more like a small hop), and even more sorry that you mouthed off about my "debating and logic skills", all infered from 3 or 4 clear sentences. Reread your message, and figure out exactly which family member/girl-who-wouldnt-go-to-prom/coworker/boss it is your are flaming here. Then take your problem up with them, instead of scooping up innocent bystanders. I wouldn't normal give such sweeping life-advice as I'm hardly in a position to, but you lowered the bar enough to let that happen.
I said "He is an idiot for thinking that music being stolen from (some musicians) is about the worst thing that could happen. Especially since the (some musicians) he is talking about are probably sitting at the country club with him."
You said "Is that the country club where he gives free laptops to kids?"
Now THAT doesn't really make sense. What point were you trying to make?
My comment can be summed up as: "These musicians he is talking about are probably already rich, does he really think that if they lose some money from privacy it's the WORST THING IN THE WORLD?"
So when you mentioned the poor kids getting free laptops, you were just being a character witness for the Woz (but that doesn't really have any bearing on anything I said. Very strange method for debating, guy.) But I (jokingly/sarcastically) assumed you're comment actually had some MEANING in context of "a response to my claims about the (some musicians)", and therefore meant "Those (some musicians) he is talking about are poor kids who need free laptops!" It was kind of a joke. Of course thats not what you meant, but it was hard to figure out what you meant.
So do better next time, and stop airing your dirty laundry on slashdot.
Not even if you two are seriouly planning on flying planes into buildings or releasing sarin gas in a subway?
Not even then. Not if they've never done anything suspicious before. The alternative you are suggesting, although you probably dont even realize it, is for all of us to constantly prove our innocence by NOT talking about releasing sarin gas with our buddies. Guilty until proven innocent. Great idea. I'd love to live in that world.
Disk drive heads ride on a blanket of air over the media. With a vacuum, they wouldn't have this air and they'd ruin the media. Thats why they have filtered vent holes.
Some drives even control the ability of the heads to move with a wind-driven interlock mechanism (sort of like the governor on a lawnmower engine), forcing the drives to stay in the proper area when the drive isn't spinning.
My argument was that some of his "poor" friends not making enough from their music is not "about the worst thing in the world".
Go ahead, argue it.
Those underprivledged children with the free laptops must be the ones making the music that we are pirating. My mistake.
After the experiment, the administrators were asked on both sides if this kind of evolution of systems met with their real-world experience. They said yes, with the caveat of if they were asked to install a component that required an upgrade of GLIBC that they would likely upgrade the operating system as long as their configuration control policy allowed it.
Oh OK so the Linux admins thought everything about the test was real-world, except, ummm, the operating system version.
Sounds great. Oh and the study included SIX groups? Wow this just gets better and better.
The thing that scares me is how excellent people are getting at hiding their agendas, even when they are RIGHT OUT IN THE OPEN. Micro$oft-funded linux vs. windows study? Nah, no conflict of interest there, seriously! (and people believe it!) A couple ex energy company executives decide to bomb the country w/ the largest oil reserves? Nah, no conflict of interest there, serious! (and people believe it!) DIEBOLD makes some e-voting machines, their CEO publicly claims he's "Devoted to delivering bush Ohio", and Computer Science PhDs across the globe are horrified at what they see when DIEBOLD's source code is leaked? Nah, no conflict of interest there.
Open your eyes. Someone stop this idiot before he eats our children.