Correct. This is an end-run around net neutrality and an attempt to wring more money out of their networks. If they can't hold content PROVIDERS hostage for the fees, they'll hold their subscribers up for it.
Ultimate Pi Moment
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Happy Pi Day
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Waiting for 3/14/15 at 9:26 AM.
Just before it flips to 9:27 we'll have an ultimate Pi moment.
Why do companies spec games against top-shelf systems?
Because development doesn't happen overnight. It can take anywhere between 12 and 36 months to bring a title to market.
In that time, what USED to be a top-shelf $2000+ system is now mainstream for performance on the market and can be gotten for less than half that.
Plus, if the player is willing to crank down the settings a little, the game will STILL be playable (if not screamingly fast and/or stunningly beautiful) on a $500 special.
Wikipedia hasn't been about free speech since about thirty seconds after inception.
It's about control of information by a cabal (admittedly a very LOOSELY affiliated cabal, but a cabal nonetheless) of editors. All of whom have their own particular agendas and axes to grind. And it's not about what you know, but whom.
Could he have filled the first page with more pointless meta-referencing knob-slobbery?
Survey SAYS!
Don't get me wrong. The rest of the article is useful. It's just personal irritation with that sort of writing style.
I've seem something like this before.
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Qt-Gon Jinn: Do you hear that flushing sound? Jar-Jar Nokia: *Nod* Qt-Gon Jinn: That is the sound of you flushing your business down to toilet. Nemoidian Ballmer: BRING ME NEW ASSMONKEY! Jar-Jar Nokia: My fucked up! My fucked up!
In all the cases you're talking about a very small portion of the fees going towards SHARED maintenance and upkeep of publicly accessible FACILITIES.
In the case of books, we're talking curriculum here.
In the case of an iPad, they're essentially just ammortizing the cost of the iPad out over the student's tuition. But it's still a forced purchase for a non-essential that is not publicly accessible and is not a curriculum item. Whether they want or need one of these overpriced toys or not.
As for better specifications. Which particular goalpost did you want to set and then move?
As for the trackpad. FUCK TRACKPADS. They're only marginally useful in the absence of a mouse. Trying to turn it into some huge selling point highlights how simply pathetic your argument is.
Then tell me about how great Apple's build quality is. It's simply another machine that's built in a sweatshop by badly abused wage slaves.
Then you'll start arguing "well none of them run MacOS, therefore they lose by default". I've heard it all from you refugees from the RDF before.
In short, your idea of what constitutes "better" is vastly different from mine.
And please don't try throwing the bullshit "average user" argument either. Because that's just an attempt to co-opt a nebulous non-class of users for who Macs may or may not be an appropriate purchase.
Apple's general SOP has ALWAYS been "evil empire". They simply weren't as financially successful as Microsoft. So Microsoft kinda took lumps for general tech company bad-neighborism.
Believe me, Apple WISHES they'd had Microsoft's success and capital. Had they done so, home computing would be an irrevocably stunted market.
They came up with a song and the song was popular. Great!
They deserve to be paid for their product, sure enough. But this isn't payment for services rendered or for purchase of a product. This is a subsidy. Plain and simple. Take without consent, even from people who have never heard their damn songs.
Also, those of you figuring out it's 6-7K per member? WRONG!
Please understand the finite point I was trying to make, instead of blowing it up into some blanket denigration of the overall crack (which I did not do).
My sole beef is with the description of the social engineering portion of the attack as "sophisticated", when it was anything BUT.
Feel free to agree or disagree at your own leisure.
Let's just say I'm NOT enamored of the platform and let it go at that.
Then again, my experience with several third-party BB app developers has been less than stellar as well. But it'd really help if RIM's infrastructure wasn't such a shoddy hodge-podge to begin with.
If you're not at LEAST using a punch card and tape system, you little spoiled weasels are doing it wrong!
I remember when we hand-encoded the bits on the drive with magnets! AND WE WERE THANKFUL FOR THE MAGNETS!
There was even a time when we had to create the interface on the screen, on the fly, by hand-aiming the gun in the back of the a CRT! In the snow! Up hill! BOTH WAYS!
AND WE WERE THANKFUL FOR IT!
This precompiled code stored in binaries and libraries thing sounds dodgy. It'll never last!
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Correct. This is an end-run around net neutrality and an attempt to wring more money out of their networks. If they can't hold content PROVIDERS hostage for the fees, they'll hold their subscribers up for it.
Waiting for 3/14/15 at 9:26 AM.
Just before it flips to 9:27 we'll have an ultimate Pi moment.
* Cheap
* Good
* Fast
Pick ONE.
Why do companies spec games against top-shelf systems?
Because development doesn't happen overnight. It can take anywhere between 12 and 36 months to bring a title to market.
In that time, what USED to be a top-shelf $2000+ system is now mainstream for performance on the market and can be gotten for less than half that.
Plus, if the player is willing to crank down the settings a little, the game will STILL be playable (if not screamingly fast and/or stunningly beautiful) on a $500 special.
Wikipedia hasn't been about free speech since about thirty seconds after inception.
It's about control of information by a cabal (admittedly a very LOOSELY affiliated cabal, but a cabal nonetheless) of editors. All of whom have their own particular agendas and axes to grind. And it's not about what you know, but whom.
If you're really worried, there's zettaaton quantities only a couple light-minutes away.
Feel free to go collect it.
=)
Could he have filled the first page with more pointless meta-referencing knob-slobbery?
Survey SAYS!
Don't get me wrong. The rest of the article is useful. It's just personal irritation with that sort of writing style.
Qt-Gon Jinn: Do you hear that flushing sound?
Jar-Jar Nokia: *Nod*
Qt-Gon Jinn: That is the sound of you flushing your business down to toilet.
Nemoidian Ballmer: BRING ME NEW ASSMONKEY!
Jar-Jar Nokia: My fucked up! My fucked up!
In all the cases you're talking about a very small portion of the fees going towards SHARED maintenance and upkeep of publicly accessible FACILITIES.
In the case of books, we're talking curriculum here.
In the case of an iPad, they're essentially just ammortizing the cost of the iPad out over the student's tuition. But it's still a forced purchase for a non-essential that is not publicly accessible and is not a curriculum item. Whether they want or need one of these overpriced toys or not.
Google comes from an era where choice is the norm. While not completely open, they make fairly heroic nods in the direction of enabling user choice.
Microsoft's record of enabling user choice is significantly poorer, though there have been exceptions.
Apple never left the "bad old days" of the late 70's and early 80's where vendor lock-in was the norm.
Wow! Way to drink the kool aid!
As for better specifications. Which particular goalpost did you want to set and then move?
As for the trackpad. FUCK TRACKPADS. They're only marginally useful in the absence of a mouse. Trying to turn it into some huge selling point highlights how simply pathetic your argument is.
As for "better specifications and build quality".
Browse out here: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Unibody-Early-2011-Teardown/4990/1
Then tell me about how great Apple's build quality is. It's simply another machine that's built in a sweatshop by badly abused wage slaves.
Then you'll start arguing "well none of them run MacOS, therefore they lose by default". I've heard it all from you refugees from the RDF before.
In short, your idea of what constitutes "better" is vastly different from mine.
And please don't try throwing the bullshit "average user" argument either. Because that's just an attempt to co-opt a nebulous non-class of users for who Macs may or may not be an appropriate purchase.
Apple's general SOP has ALWAYS been "evil empire". They simply weren't as financially successful as Microsoft. So Microsoft kinda took lumps for general tech company bad-neighborism.
Believe me, Apple WISHES they'd had Microsoft's success and capital. Had they done so, home computing would be an irrevocably stunted market.
One of these "because we deserve it" things.
They came up with a song and the song was popular. Great!
They deserve to be paid for their product, sure enough. But this isn't payment for services rendered or for purchase of a product. This is a subsidy. Plain and simple. Take without consent, even from people who have never heard their damn songs.
Also, those of you figuring out it's 6-7K per member? WRONG!
Collection fees
Administration fees.
Bookkeeping fees.
Staffing fees.
Blah blahblah blah.
The actual artists themselves will be lucky to see more than a small fraction of that.
Whenever I hear "too much time on his hands" I think it's really someone saying "I'm jealous because my life is grey and dull without an imagination".
Funny, when I hear it, I change the station. I can't stand Styx.
Yup. Feel free to keep thinking this.
Please understand the finite point I was trying to make, instead of blowing it up into some blanket denigration of the overall crack (which I did not do).
My sole beef is with the description of the social engineering portion of the attack as "sophisticated", when it was anything BUT.
Feel free to agree or disagree at your own leisure.
Not talking about the technical portions of the break in.
Talking about the social engineering.
They used a known-trusted e-mail address to essentially tell the admin of a server
* Give me my username
* Give that user password "12345"
* Open up this port and accept traffic from this block of IP addresses.
They already had access to the guy's e-mail. So they had copious quantities of samples to construct a legitimate sounding e-mail from.
This is hardly rocket science.
From the argh-tickle.
"By combining a SQL injection attack on HBGary's Web site with sophisticated social engineering attacks"
Uhm. WHAT?
Sophisticated? I wouldn't call a couple of e-mails from a hijacked account asking to back-door a server "sophisticated".
What the HBGary hack was:
Basic SQL Injection
Weak passwords
Password Re-use
SIMPLE social engineering
Your basic molotov cocktail of fail.
Seriously. While some of the stuff looks cool, most of it wildly impractical for every day actual use.
Anyone remember the old Microsoft demo of speech recognition?
NO WAY MAN!
This is status quo for them.
Let's just say I'm NOT enamored of the platform and let it go at that.
Then again, my experience with several third-party BB app developers has been less than stellar as well. But it'd really help if RIM's infrastructure wasn't such a shoddy hodge-podge to begin with.
Well at least he's being honest about it.
If you're not at LEAST using a punch card and tape system, you little spoiled weasels are doing it wrong!
I remember when we hand-encoded the bits on the drive with magnets! AND WE WERE THANKFUL FOR THE MAGNETS!
There was even a time when we had to create the interface on the screen, on the fly, by hand-aiming the gun in the back of the a CRT!
In the snow!
Up hill!
BOTH WAYS!
AND WE WERE THANKFUL FOR IT!
This precompiled code stored in binaries and libraries thing sounds dodgy. It'll never last!
For a moment I thought you were going to say a Flash app...
We're all gonna die!
Someday... =)
Simply reinforcing my notion that modern schooling is less about education and more about simply "jailing" children so mommy and daddy can go to work.
Is it any wonder why prison is such a growth industry in this country when we're institutionalizing them from age 6 onward?